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HHS to establish HIT Research Center to support extension centers
Hey all you EMR and EHR fans at CMS, ONC, HIMSS, EHRA, AAFP and the like--get ready for yet another handy acronym in the world of ARRA/HITECH: HITRC, short for Health Information Technology Research... Read more...
Brailer 'pretty impressed' with proposal on meaningful use
Former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer is "pretty impressed" with the proposed criteria for meaningful use of EMRs that HHS officials published Dec. 30. According to Brailer, who now... Read more...
ONC anticipates a busy start to 2010
Even as the weary staffers of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology work down to the wire to help CMS get a definition of meaningful use of EMRs out by the end of the... Read more...
Questioning federal EMR support programs
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology continues to announce various grant opportunities to support the forthcoming Medicare/Medicaid EMR incentive program, using... 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...
Open-source Connect toolkit to embed meaningful use, HHS says
HHS will update its Connect open-source interoperability toolkit to embed features that will help users achieve meaningful use of EMRs, a federal official says. The 2010 release of Connect also is... Read more...
