State Alliance for e-Health issues HIT exchange guidance
Diana Manos, Senior Editor The State Alliance for e-Health issued new guidance on Tuesday for state health information exchanges. The executive-level organization, composed of governors, state...
View ArticleHealthcare Update: Obama Holds Town Hall Meeting In New Hampshire
President Obama held a town hall meeting in New Hampshire today, Tuesday, August 11, in an effort to calm fears over the Democrats’ legislative initiatives to reform healthcare in this country. The...
View ArticlePolicy committee accepts ‘meaningful use’ criteria
By Joseph Conn Another month, another matrix in the development of definitions of “meaningful use,” the key criteria providers must meet to unlock tens of billions of dollars of federal healthcare...
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Two weeks ago, the Obama administration offered nearly $1.2 billion in stimulus-funded grants to set up state-run health information exchanges, and create 70 “health IT regional extension centers” to...
View ArticleFeds Issue EHR Medicaid Incentive Guidance
HDM Breaking News The Centers for Medicaid and Medicaid Services has sent a letter to all state Medicaid directors to provide initial guidance on upcoming Medicaid EHR incentive payments. Under the...
View ArticleCMS sets rules on state stimulus payment systems
By Mary Mosquera The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will reimburse states for 100 percent of their payments to healthcare providers participating in the federal health IT stimulus program,...
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Healthcare Electronic Records Technology and Government Funding: Improving...
By Sue Hildreth Consistent Processes, Performance Metrics and Quantifiable Patient Benefits are Long-Term Goals Many in healthcare and government want to see the wide gap in IT capabilities closed and...
View ArticleObama expects passage of ‘good healthcare bill’
By the Associated Press President Barack Obama began a week that will dwell heavily on overhauling the healthcare system, declaring himself confident Congress will pass “a good healthcare bill” even...
View ArticleBlumenthal on healthcare IT message from dawn to dusk
Bernie Monegain, Editor CHICAGO – The Obama adminstration’s chief for healthcare IT technology David Blumenthal, MD, was on the healthcare IT message from dawn to dusk Thursday – a part of the White...
View ArticleNew York State awards $60M in health IT grants
By John Moore New York State has awarded about $60 million in grants for localized health information technology projects, one of three rounds of grants recently issued under the state’s Health Care...
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