HHS Sets Goal of 50% of Physicians Using EHRs by Year End
2013 Agenda to Focus on Improving Care through Health IT Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National…
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HIMSS13: Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Pay, ONC Budget
by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Managing Editor NEW ORLEANS — There were nearly 60 education sessions at the Healthcare Information and Management Society’s Annual Conference on…
Leading Health IT Vendors Form Alliance to Advance Interoperability
Cerner, McKesson, Allscripts, athenahealth, Greenway and RelayHealth Announce Ground Breaking Alliance to Enable Integrated Health Care HIMSS13, NEW ORLEANS – Top health care information technology (HIT)…
CCHIT Launches HIE Compliance Testing and Certification Program
CCHIT Announces HIE Certification Pilot Program at HIMSS13 CHICAGO – Today, the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is announcing the opening of the pilot…
DoD, VA Recommit to Joint EHR System
DoD, VA reiterate commitment to iEHR — again Tom Sullivan Editor at Government Health IT Twitter: @GovHITEditor After a morning of Congressional tongue-lashings Wednesday during a House…
Meaningful Use Attestation Does Not Satisfy PQRS Requirements
Lack of alignment in Meaningful Use and PQRS Confusing There is some confusion in medical practices about whether Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) requirements are…
ONC Launches Stage 2 Meaningful Use Interoperability Online Course
Stage 2 Meaningful and Interoperability Course The State HIE Program Policy Office and the Regional Extension Center Program have released Interoperability Basics, a 75 minute online…
CMS Launches EHR Incentive Participation Timeline Tool
New EHR Incentive Resource and other CMS Updates The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the Federal agency under the Department of Health…
Data Mining Systems Improve Cost and Quality of Healthcare – Or Do They?
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor Several email lists I am on were abuzz last week about the publication of a paper…