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'Meaningful use' proposal would extend deadlines, open up certification
The highly anticipated second draft of a definition for "meaningful use" of health IT to qualify for federal stimulus funding came out as promised last week, and proposes loosening some of the
Blumenthal wants 'meaningful use' standards to work with NHIN
Lest the health IT industry be stuck with competing standards yet again, National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal says he intends to harmonize standards for "meaningful use" of
New CCHIT policy wins over critics
The early reviews seem to be positive for the recent decision by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to give EMR developers three options for achieving certification.
AMA wants EMR subsidies indexed for inflation, recommends breach responses
Saying that EMRs still are very expensive, the American Medical Association is recommending that the federal government index federal EMR subsidies for inflation, according to a resolution adopted at
Are open source EMRs a threat to HIMSS?
You know, unless I'm misreading things, it seems that the leadership of HIMSS dislikes Rep. Pete Stark's pending health IT bill largely because--gasp--it calls for the federally-sponsored
California HealthCare Foundation donates $10M in code to open source effort
The California HealthCare Foundation this week agreed to turn over key components from the software behind a $10 million health information exchange project it put together a few years ago to an open
