NIH Commits $24 Million Annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence
Efforts will harness power of complex datasets to improve health, aid discovery, reduce duplication The National Institutes of Health will fund up to $24 million…
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Massachusetts Docs Await MU Licensing Requirements
By Anthony Brino, Associate Editor Government Health IT Starting in 2015, doctors in Massachusetts will have to show health IT meaningful use proficiency as a…
EHRs are for Eye Care Professionals Too
Why Eye Care Professionals should use EHRs and get Connected to each other and to their Patients By Blair Butterfield, President, North America at VitalHealth…
AHRQ Publishes Guide on Patient Engagement
Hospital Guide on Patient Engagement The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency under the Department of Health & Human…
Clarification With Major Impact: A Safety Net for Meaningful Use Attestation Success
by Naomi Levinthal and Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom Republished from iHealthBeat.org Eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals (EHs) participating in the CMS Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs…
ONC Releases Updated Progress Report on Health IT Adoption
ONC Assesses Achievements to date on Five Year Health IT Plan Last week the ONC released a report detailing progress to date on the five…
Applying Structured Change Management to EHR Implementations
Change Management and EHR Implementations The value of Electronic Health Records (EHR) seems obvious to most of us. With our vast progress in technology, it…
Patient Engagement Through Social Media
Engaging Your Patients Using Social Media Stage 2 of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs will begin in 2014 for those Eligible Professionals (EPs) who have…
Patient Engagement is an Important Focus of MU Stage 2
What are you doing about Patient Engagement? In a medical practice these days categorizing your patients is common. You have active patients that come to…