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Privacy concerns hold back wider EHR adoption

This could be considered progress: Researchers at North Carolina State University say that it's not cost or stubbornness that is holding back wider EHR uptake, but rather concerns about privacy from

Security concerns holding back wider HIE, GAO says

Security just seems to be a never-ending challenge for CIOs and other healthcare data gurus. (If you read the Editor's Corner in this week's FierceHealthIT , you know that hospital IT and compliance

HHS: Rules for meaningful use, certification, HIPAA are on schedule

Don't expect a delay in the start of the federal EMR incentive program. In its semi-annual regulatory update, HHS lists the effective date as Oct. 1, 2010, for hospitals--the first day of federal