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Meaningful Use numbers grow, but are providers ready for Stage 2?

Providers have earned more than $5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid reports. Through April, roughly 93,650

Hospital CIOs say stay the course with ICD-10

When CMS said it wouldn't extend the deadline for healthcare organizations to convert to the ICD-10 coding system--only to cave to pressure at the last minute and announce a delay for "certain

CIO Drexel DeFord: ICD-10 is coming regardless of CMS delay

Some healthcare CIOs might be cheering the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' announcement that it will re-examine the timeline for implementing ICD-10 coding regulations . But Drexel

'Meaningful use' readiness drops among hospital CIOs

Hospital CIOs are rapidly losing confidence in their organization's ability to qualify early for federal subsidies for "meaningful use" of EMRs, according to an updated survey from the College of

Patricia Skarulis - Disruptive Forces in Health IT

Who: Patricia Skarulis Current position: Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center Location: New York Fast Facts: Before being named vice president and CIO

CIOs wary of health IT staffing shortages

The specter of staffing shortages as the nation's hospitals gear up for EMR implementations and "meaningful use" of health IT has shown its face again, this time in the form of a survey of healthcare

ONC's 'Chapel' of certified EMRs still under construction

Government types and associated policy wonks just love their acronyms. And there always seems to be a fresh supply of shorthand intended to minimize keystrokes, confuse the layperson and separate the

CIOs get candid about meaningful use at CHIME meeting

A dozen CIOs from hospitals and health systems nationwide were asked to write down their own definitions of "clinical adoption" within the context of applications they associate with "meaningful use"

Nine of 10 hospital CIOs expect to have 'meaningful use' by 2012

Just 10 percent of healthcare CIOs do not expect to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid bonuses for "meaningful use" of EMRs during Stage 1 of the federal incentive program, 2011-12, according to a new

A lot can happen in a week of health IT

I'm back from my first full week off in more than a year. While it was nice to be able to sleep in, play some tennis, ignore tons of email and generally recharge my batteries, I have to say it's