Healthcare IT News

The following are excerpts from comments – some of them dozens of pages long – submitted to the federal government regarding the proposed meaningful use requirements. The final rules, taking the comments into account, are due out in late spring, according to federal officials.

The comment period on the proposed meaningful use rule and the interim standards final rule closed March 15. On March 17, federal officials said they had collected some 2,700 comment letters.

Last month’s bankruptcy filing by one of the nation’s largest medical transcription providers could touch off a bidding war for the company’s assets.

Leaders at the North Carolina Healthcare Information and Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) announced Tuesday they have published a free business associate agreement to help providers comply with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).

The Medical Group Management Association's point man in Washington, D.C., says most of the groups the MGMA represents would not be eligible for government incentives for adopting and using an electronic health record by 2011.

Motorola rolls out MT2000 bar code scanners HOLTSVILLE, NY – Motorola, Inc.

September 10 - 11 - The Northwest Medical Informatics Symposium, Spokane, Wash.

BRIGGS DEPLOYS DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AIMED AT ACCURACY DES MOINES, IA – Briggs, a healthcare provider based in Des Moines, Iowa, has implemented a new electronic mobile data collection system that is designed to enable healthcare agencies to improve the accuracy of recorded data.

The National Cyber Security Alliance has added Google to its board of directors. The announcement comes as Google’s health division has increased activity this summer to protect patient rights.

Healthcare IT chief David Blumenthal has joined the White House e-mail campaign for healthcare reform with a public letter sent via e-mail expounding the virtues of electronic health record systems as a critical piece of transformation.