December 23, 2009 Health IT Holiday Gifts From Your Favorite Government?

As we celebrate the holidays and look forward to a new year, there just might be a few health IT gifts that will need to be unwrapped.

December 9, 2009 Obama Releases Stimulus Funds for Health IT, Community Clinics

On Wednesday, President Obama announced that he would allocate $88 million to boost electronic health record.

November 19, 2009 House Passes Bill To Create EHR Loan Program for Physicians

On Wednesday, the House of Representatives approved a bill (HR 3014) designed to help health care providers purchase electronic health record systems and other health IT tools, the Rutherford Daily News Journal reports.

January 14, 2010 Policy Panel Considers Changes to NHIN, 'Meaningful Use' Rules

Yesterday, the Health IT Policy Committee agreed to a set of recommendations that would restructure the Nationwide Health Information Network to support "meaningful use" goals.

October 28, 2009 Physician champions electronic health records

On his busiest days in the office, he sees 20 people between the hours of 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. His practice schedules 20-minute visits, five minutes more than most practices, and the affable doctor admits he has a habit of going even longer than that with his patients and thus gets behind.

October 21, 2009 Insurer To Reimburse Physicians for Online Patient Consultations

Health insurance provider MVP Health Care has announced that it will begin reimbursing 22,000 in-network physicians for Web-based patient consultations, Health Data Management reports.

October 6, 2009 Don't wait until next year to implement EMR, Leavitt warns.

Those who wait until next year will face a "high risk" of failing to achieve "meaningful use" of health IT in time for the 2011-12 federal incentives, Mark Leavitt, chairman of the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, warned at the annual AHIMA conference on Monday in Grapevine, Texas.

October 6, 2009 Allscripts Is User Friendly, Patients Love It

Take a look at how friendly a EMR solution can be for Doctors and for patients.

October 2, 2009 Technology Driving Changes in Physician-Patient Relationships

New digital technologies are helping to transform traditional relationships between patients and their health care providers, HealthLeaders Media reports.

October 2, 2009 Meaningful Use Updated

Under the federal economic stimulus package, hospitals and physicians who demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs will qualify for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments.

September 12, 2009 Certification Commission for Health IT

The Certification Commission for Health IT said it has updated its comprehensive electronic health record certification program for 2011. The group also plans to offer preliminary certification to help EHR systems meet forthcoming regulations on \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"meaningful use.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" CCHIT said it will provide incremental inspections to help EHRs meet final federal requirements. Healthcare IT News et al.

July 20, 2009 Heath IT to spend billions this year.

A new report from the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society

August 24, 2009 Physician practice adopts EMR, achieves great success with new technology

The implementation of an(EMR) at Jefferson University Physicians required a lengthy, methodical process. But, despite the amount of work involved, it has been well worth the effort.

August 21, 2009 Obama

Experts say electronic health records will slash health care costs, but hospitals wonder when -- and how -- they'll be able to realize those savings.

August 20, 2009 Grants for Healthcare IT

Today, Vice President Biden and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced nearly $1.2 billion in grants to help health care providers implement electronic health record systems, the AP/Hartford Courant reports.

February 10, 2009 Electronic Health Records: How to Spend the Money Wisely

So it looks as if the nation’s taxpayers are going to spend about $20 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records. In his press conference Monday night,

May 28, 2009 Electronic Patient Records Will Force Consolidation in Health Care

The Obama administration’s ambitious plan to accelerate the adoption of electronic patient records will be a “steamroller” that drives the consolidation of the health technology industry and threatens many small physician practices.

June 01, 2009 Newly Released CCHIT Guide Outlines Criteria for EHR

On Friday, the Certification Commission for Healthcare IT published on its Web site its 2009 criteria and test scripts, as well as a new \\\\\\\"Concise Guide to CCHIT Criteria,\\\\\\\" Healthcare IT News reports

June 04, 2009 Obama Says Health IT Should Be Part of Health Reform Efforts

On Tuesday, President Obama sent a letter to Senate Finance Committee Chair Max Baucus and Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Chair Edward Kennedy calling for the use of health IT