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The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments intend to test more complex health data sets and include more participants in its second "VLER Community" project, the latest in a planned series of live tests of a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record for military community members and their families.
Healthcare providers looking to marry clinical and revenue cycle management operations are finding a willing suitor in Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.
Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, and the definition of "meaningful use" of an EMR, the healthcare CIO is looking at a much larger range of responsibilities.
Patient engagement should be a critical piece of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, public comment on a draft framework indicates.
Premier healthcare alliance has launched a new meaningful use best-practices library to help hospitals effectively implement electronic health records and earn Medicare and Medicaid bonuses.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to the Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthcare and health IT strategy.
President Barack Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd in support of his landmark health reform in Maine on Thursday, touting a new course that will "build on the system of private health insurance that we already have," making coverage "more secure and more affordable" for those who already have it, and allowing those who don't have coverage to "finally be able to get it."
When it comes to equipping itself for data sharing, the healthcare industry is facing a monumental task ahead. Even those wearing rose-colored glasses admit there is a tremendous amount of hard work ahead to make IT systems interoperable and accommodate electronic health records by October 2013.
Jonathan Teich, MD, an eMergency physician and internist, expects meaningful use requirements to give clinical decision support a boost.