HIE Resources for Rural Health Stakeholders
HIE resources at the National Rural Health Resource Center The National Rural Health Resource Center has made available a set of practical health information exchange…
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ONC Releases Data Briefs on EHR Systems Adoption for Acute Care Hospitals
New Briefs Look at EHR Systems Adoption, Meaningful Use Among Hospitals Last Thursday the ONC released two data briefs on adoption of EHR systems and…
HIMSS Hosts Virtual Educational Session on HIE, Interoperability
Health Information Exchange, Interoperability and Standards: Enablers to Health IT Transformation In case you didn’t get enough interoperability at the HIMSS13 conference last week or…
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…
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 –Â 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…