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Partners HealthCare and its Center for Connected Health is offering its Partners Step It Up program to elementary students at six Boston public schools this year. The program incorporates technology, educational feedback and a team-oriented virtual foot race to raise awareness about the importance of daily activity and good health.
Secretaries Panetta and Shinseki, of the DoD and VA respectively, are amid a series of meeting to talk about issues of import to both departments, including the joint iEHR and VLER iniatives.
When Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and Secretary of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki met at the Pentagon earlier this week, EHRs was one of the topics on the table.
GOP Presidential candidate looks to distinguish the bill he signed as Governor of Massachusetts from President Obama's Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Leading up to next week's Super Tuesday, North Dakota Medical Association Executive Director Courtney Koebele discusses the challenges unique to The Peace Garden State, namely its anti-PPACA amendment, and Medicaid reimbursement issues.
Debate over Michigan state healthcare issues mirrors national discussion on role of the government in health care.
On the last day of HIMSS12, Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile and Republican commentator Dana Perino sat down to discuss a range of topics. Covering everything from the 2012 election to EHRs to healthcare reform, the two presented a lively and entertaining discussion about government and healthcare.
A few organizations weigh in early on the proposed rule for meaningful use stage 2, including concerns about effect of its delay until 2014.
Though most stakeholders are still drowning in the 455-page meaningful use Stage 2 proposed rule, issued February 23 by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), a few groups have stepped forward to weigh in.
After some stops and starts, at last the federal government has released the long-awaited proposal for Stage 2 of qualifying for the meaningful use of electronic health records incentives.