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HIE market heats up with state grants, looming EMR deadline
With federal stimulus money--about $546 million funneled into state grants promoting health information exchange projects--illuminating the way, healthcare software vendors are evaluating their... Read more...
Best-of-breed falling out of favor with ED physicians
Just days after announcing that vendor satisfaction for ambulatory EMRs dropped in 2009, KLAS Enterprises reports that emergency departments are starting to favor a single-vendor over the... Read more...
Studies show physicians still question EMR privacy
Believe it or not, physicians really do support the idea of EMRs. In one study of Massachusetts doctors, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 86 percent said... Read more...
ONC reorganizes, announces $235M for EMR 'beacon' communities
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is reorganizing in preparation for the federal EMR stimulus program and to be more of a watchdog on privacy issues. Notably,... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Poorly implemented EMRs
This may not come as shocking news to people in the business, but it's good to get it out there to the general public: Not all EMR implementations are created equal, and some actually can increase... Read more...
Blumenthal: Meaningful use will focus on goals of care, not technology
National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal isn't allowed to say what the final rules for meaningful use of EMRs will look like until HHS releases its formal proposal, but every time he gives... Read more...
EMRs, PHRs, HIE necessary to support patient-centered medical home
Without EMRs, PHRs and health information exchange, the patient-centered medical home may not be bound to fail, but it certainly is difficult to establish and maintain. "IT is really the key to... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Point-of-care diagnostics and EMRs
Point-of-care diagnostic tools are cash cows for so many hospitals and clinics, but unless they connect to and output data to EMRs, the devices won't do much in the way of improving patient care or... Read more...
Report: EMRs will drive HIT boom through 2013
Here's some news that should surprise no one: We're in an unprecedented boom in health IT, thanks mostly to growth in the EMR/EHR sector. Indeed, a new report from Scientia Advisors says health IT is... Read more...
Social Security to join VA, DoD interoperability effort
The Social Security Administration will start sharing electronic health information with the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs early next year to help expedite claims processing for... Read more...
