Meaningful Use
"The future physician of America" is a tech savvy one - one who reaches for an iPhone to choose clinical references, and who expects to use an EHR when he or she begins practicing, according to a recent survey of medical students.
Critical access and rural hospitals will benefit from nearly $20 million in new technical support assistance to help them convert from paper-based medical records to certified electronic health record technology, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Sept. 10.
Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information technology to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country. Between them they will receive $30 million in government money to help in their work.
Maine's HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange, has selected Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider to help the HIE expand.
The University of Texas at Austin's new Health Information Technology program is being bolstered by a $2.7 million federal grant that will support four programs aimed at "fast tracking" university graduates into the field of healthcare information technology.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will announce the names of the authorized testing and certification bodies (ATCB) "soon," according to Carol Bean, ONC's division director for certification and testing.
Preventing patient data breaches is cited as the number one priority for healthcare IT decision makers, but work remains for complying with security regulations, according to a national survey that examines IT trends in healthcare.
Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has announced two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption.
There's a sense of relief across the industry that the just-unveiled meaningful use criteria are less stringent than many had feared, striking the right note between rules-based accountability and the freedom needed to foster wider implementation.
In this NewsMaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain discusses John Glaser's eleven months as adviser to ONC chief David Blumenthal.