The military and veterans healthcare communities are on the right track with how they document patient medical records, slowly transitioning into a near-paperless environment, officials said last week. Speaking at a June
MoreThe federal government has given Maryland’s health IT plan the go-ahead, making the state one of three recipients of recent approvals from the Department of Health and Human Services to develop health
MoreThe Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has organized a new enrollment subcommittee that will respond to a section of the Affordable Care Act, asking the HIT Policy and
MoreBy early July, the Office of the National Coordinator will announce the winners of 11 contracts for developing a health information exchange framework based on a model originated by federal homeland security
MoreEarlier this month, the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced it had awarded $220 million to 15 Beacon Communities across the nation to demonstrate a future where hospitals, clinicians
MoreA new trend study from the University of California San Diego Extension reveals that health IT is the “hottest” option for recent college graduates. According to the study Hot Careers for College
MoreThe Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services announced Monday that Maryland’s Medicaid program will receive approximately $1.37 million in federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to adopt the electronic health
MoreThe Health and Human Services is allocating $220 million to 15 communities to pilot test the adoption of emerging health IT. The awards are part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
MoreA new report suggests that while the use of electronic health records systems may lead to lower mortality rates for certain conditions, the new technology does not save hospitals money or reduce
MoreWhile some physicians throughout the United States have decided to become meaningful users of electronic health records by 2011 when Medicare and Medicaid begin extra payments to meaningful users, many others remain
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