CHIME Responds To Senators Request for HITECH Reboot
CHIME Recommends Delaying Stage 3 Last month a group of six Republican Senators released a public letter questioning just how and where the HITECH Act funds are…
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2013 WEDI Report to Tackle Health Information Exchange
WEDI Committee and Workgroups to Create Framework for HIE The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991 by Health…
EHR Incentive Program Status Report
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 4/1/2013 The Centers for Medicare…
Surescripts and MiHIN Enter Connectivity and Information Exchange Agreement
The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) has entered into an agreement with Surescripts allowing users of Surescripts’ Clinical Interoperability network to send electronic…
Industry Responds On How to Advance Health Information Exchange
Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange On March 7, 2013 CMS and HHS filed a notice in the Federal Register seeking input on policy and program…
ONC Says ‘Refresh’ Their Health IT Dashboard
Dashboard.HealthIT.Gov Adds 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC’s Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs,…
ONC Revokes Certification of Two EHR Products
ONC Re-tests Two EHR Products After Complaints Filed Last week EHR certification made news when the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)…
NY Patient Portal
New York Voted on Patient Portal Design As we reported last week, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) asked New Yorkers to help shape the State’s…
CMS, ONC Report on Progress of Health IT Adoption
Record Progress to Date on Adoption of Health IT Initiatives CMS and ONC yesterday posted a joint fact sheet breaking down progress made to date…