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NewsAmbulatory EMR market to 'double by 2012'
The U.S. market for ambulatory EHRs, worth $1.3 billion last year, is forecast to double to $2.6 billion by 2012, research firm Frost & Sullivan says. Clearly, the HITECH portion of the American... Read more...
Still have questions about meaningful use? So does CMS
Often, attempts to clarify complex plans--like, say, the final stage 1 rules for meaningful use of EHRs--provide more questions than answers. A recent CMS educational session for providers was one of... Read more...
Report: Epic likely to get massive contract to replace DoD's AHLTA EHR
A week ago, FierceEMR reported that the man who would be top doc at the Pentagon--Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--wants the... Read more...
AMA trustee: Even relaxed meaningful-use standards will be tough for many docs
Just in case anyone was still wondering, getting to "meaningful use" of EHRs is by no means a slam dunk for many a physician. Even though CMS reduced the 2011-12 requirements from an earlier... Read more...
DoD health nominee says EHR development is a top priority
Dr. Jonathan Woodson, President Obama's nominee for assistant secretary of defense for health affairs--the top physician at the Pentagon--says that developing an advanced EHR at the Department of... Read more...
Incoming Siemens IT chief Glaser: Era of clinician resistance to EMR 'behind us'
Declaring the era of clinician resistance to IT "behind us," John Glaser, who is leaving his job as CIO of Partners HealthCare System in Boston to become CEO of Siemens Healthcare's Health Services... Read more...
Blumenthal calls meaningful use a 'one-time offer'
If you aren't going to achieve meaningful use this time around, don't expect the federal government to give you another shot at Medicare and Medicaid subsidies for EHRs. "[The] federal government is... Read more...
Survey: Providers confused about ambulatory EHR certification
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has made it clear that it wants multiple EHR certification bodies, but that message apparently has not made it out to many... Read more...
Survey: 85 percent of HIT professionals planning EHR implementation by end of 2011
Clinical information technology has arrived. According to a newly released report from San Francisco-based Embarcadero Technologies, EHR implementation is the top priority of health IT professionals,... Read more...
U of Missouri builds integrated EHR for long-term care
There are inpatient EMRs, ambulatory EMRs and EMRs for home health, but for some reason, we don't hear too much about EMRs for long-term care. University of Missouri researchers, representing the... Read more...
| Press ReleasesINC. 5000 Names ClinixMIS for Third TimeNASHVILLE, Tenn., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Nashville-based medical software developer Clinix Medical Information Services, LLC has once again been named one of the top 5,000 fastest growing private Read more >> UnitedHealth Group to Invest $10 Million to Help Improve Health Care Information Technology Systems at California’s CriticUnitedHealth Group also providing $200,000 in grants to assess health IT needs at California’s 31 Critical Access HospitalsThe investments come from UnitedHealth Group’s 20-year, $200 million Read more >> TSI Appoints New CFO and VP of Sales to Management TeamCHAPEL HILL, N.C., Sept. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- TSI Healthcare, a national leader in the sales and support of custom healthcare information technology, has appointed Kermit Copley, CPA and Scott Boyden, Read more >> AHIMA Selects Pearson VUE as Testing Services ProviderBLOOMINGTON, Minn., Aug. 31 /PRNewswire/ -- Pearson VUE, the leader in secure high-stakes testing, announced its signing of an agreement to be the exclusive provider of computer-based testing for the Read more >> Initial EHR Certification Bodies NamedKey step in national initiative toward adoption of electronic health records WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago, Ill. and Read more >> |
