Rural Hospitals news from FierceEMR
NewsONC aims funding to boost EHR use by critical access, rural hospitals
An additional $12 million in new technical support assistance is being provided by the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health IT to help critical access hospitals (CAHs) and rural Read more...
Regional extension centers slow to sign physician contracts
Surprise, surprise! Things are moving slower than hoped for in health IT. The latest example of the glacial pace of change concerns the 60 federally funded regional extension centers set up to help Read more...
Multi-hospital systems, rural providers feel slighted in 'meaningful use' rule
Now that the rules for "meaningful use" of EMRs are out, Congress has moved in to serve as watchdog of sorts over HHS with regards to the HITECH portion of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Read more...
Blumenthal: Extension centers, 'beacon communities' must help rural providers
National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal wants the networks of regional extension centers and "beacon communities" to put special emphasis on helping rural providers adopt EMRs. Speaking Read more...
Rural Texas hospitals to create RHIO with shared EHR
One of the underlying principles of "meaningful use" of EHRs--and a key requirement for earning federal stimulus payments--is the ability to be interoperable with other organizations. To this end, Read more...
Small Nebraska hospital has big HIE plans
The proposed federal criteria for "meaningful use" of health IT would require providers to have EMRs capable of exchanging clinical data with other organizations. That presented a problem for the Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: EMR stimulus and rural hospitals
HealthLeaders magazine goes out on a limb this month with a little prognostication. Among its forecasts is that the health IT stimulus could fail miserably because federal policymakers are leaving Read more...
MO, AL hospitals complete transition to EMRs
The large-scale shift to electronic medical records is underway as January 2011 fast approaches, but we still consider it newsworthy when a hospital finally ditches its paper records. At least two Read more...
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