New Report Indicates Private Practice Physicians Dwindling
1 in 3 Physicians Seek to Transform to Subscription-based Care A new report released last week by consulting giant Accenture finds more and more physicians…
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How The Health Law Might Be Changed By The Next President
By Mary Agnes Carey Kaiser Health News On the presidential campaign trail, Republican Mitt Romney has repeatedly called for repeal of the 2010 health law and…
More Certification Criteria Test Procedure Released by ONC
6th Wave Now Released for Public Review and Comment On Tuesday, September 4th, the Health Information Technology: Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic…
Health IT Business News Wrap-up – November 4, 2012
This Week’s Health IT Business News The week that brought devastation across the Eastern seaboard, and particularly to New York and New Jersey, impacted every…
HIT Policy Meaningful Use Workgroup Tackles Stage 3 Objectives
First Draft of Stage 3 Objectives and Measures The EHR Incentive programs are structured for eligible professionals and hospitals to meet specific objective measures using…
New Research on Impact of Health IT on Ambulatory Workflows
AHRQ to examine health IT, practice workflow redesign Erin McCann, Contributing Editor Government HealthIT A new project by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality…
Lab Orders and HIEs
Certification Requirements Needed to Transmit Lab Orders Ken Willett CEO/CTO of Ignis Systems Corporation A recent posting on Michigan Health Connect indicates that while this state-wide HIE…
CCHIT to Test EHR and HIE Interoperability
CCHIT Q&A on Interoperability and Stage 2 Our attendance at MGMA12 gave us an opportunity to meet up with many of our colleagues in the…
ECRI Looks at Best Practices for Reducing Risk, Improving Patient Safety
Assessing Patient Safety The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The…