Chelsey Ledue

L.A. Care Health Plan, the nation’s largest public health plan, has approved $529,000 to support five Los Angeles County community clinics’ health information technology projects.

After signing the healthcare reform bill into law on March 23, President Barack Obama traveled to Iowa and Maine to promote his vision, which includes the role of healthcare IT in saving lives and cutting cost.

Since implementing an EHR system in 1997, Heart of Texas Community Health Center, one of the 2009 HIMSS Davies Award winners, has tripled the number of its patients, expanded from a single location to 10 sites, and shown improvement in important quality indicators.

Only .01 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have reached a Stage 7 electronic medical record - none until the middle of 2008.

Over 20 years of successful experience with electronic health records makes the Veterans' Health Administration a great model for the public sphere, according to an attendee at Sunday's "Veteran-centric Care: Putting the Power of Technology and Patient Care at the Core" session at HIMSS09.

Google has responded to Consumer Watchdog's call to end a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the economic stimulus legislation.

Consumer Watchdog has called on Google to end a rumored lobbying effort aimed at allowing the sale of electronic medical records in the current version of the economic stimulus legislation.

The Medical Group Management Association has launched an industry wide effort calling on health insurers, vendors and healthcare providers to adopt standardized, machine-readable patient ID cards by Jan. 1, 2010.