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Mostashari to Brailer: 'Tremendous movement' ahead for Health IT
National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, M.D., predicted 40 percent of primary care providers will have a basic electronic health record by the end of this year and that half will have
Leavitt: HIT standards development slow, but U.S. on the right track
Michael Leavitt, the Secretary of Health and Human Services during the second term of President George W. Bush, expressed strong support for the Obama Administration's health IT incentive program
Health IT still far from its potential
A couple of weeks ago, we referenced both the 1991 Institute of Medicine report, "The Computer-Based Patient Record: An Essential Technology for Health Care" and President George W. Bush's 2004 call
AMIA 2010: 'Five to 10 years away' always seems five to 10 years away
Health IT always seems to be five to 10 years away from radically transforming what passes for a healthcare system in this country. If you recall, Dr. David Brailer's national health IT strategy was
Accenture physician: National goal of 'universal' EMR adoption not realistic
Well, it needed to be said. With only 6 percent of office-based physicians using fully functioning EMRs, according to the most recent CDC statistics, it's not exactly likely that all citizens will
EMRs get politicized again
Just when you thought EMRs were above the political fray swirling around this alleged healthcare reform going on in Washington, along comes a former HHS official to re-politicize the issue. Tevi
Blumenthal: Even older doctors will learn to embrace EHRs
Dr. David Blumenthal, President Obama's choice as national coordinator for health IT, believes that his fellow physicians ultimately will rise to the challenge of adopting electronic health records
Is government EHR promotion slowing adoption, and is slow so bad?
Increased government promotion of EHRs since 2004 may actually be boosting physician resistance to change, and thus slowing down adoption, though one cybersecurity expert suggests that it may not be
HHS nominee Sebelius open to fast tracking health reform
At her Senate confirmation hearing yesterday, Health and Human Services (HHS) nominee Kathleen Sebelius said that she was open to a fast tracking strategy for pushing through pending health reform
Reform may include malpractice changes
While many a medical malpractice reform has withered on the vine in recent years, a group of Democratic lawmakers and their trial lawyer backers seem determined to open up the issue again. In a
