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HHS awards $20 million to support rural EHR adoption
HHS is hoping to help 1,655 critical-access and rural hospitals in 41 states and on several Indian reservations adopt EHRs with $20 million in new technical-assistance funding through the Regional
Most hospitals would struggle to meet meaningful use now
Unless significant progress has been made in the last year and continues into 2011, few hospitals will achieve "meaningful use" of EHRs and earn Medicare and Medicaid bonus payments, a new study
Department of Veterans Affairs spends big on Health IT, sees big return
Health information technology adoption ultimately can lead to better quality care and cost savings, if new research at the Department of Veterans Affairs is any indication. Investments in the
SPOTLIGHT: Online help for EHR adoption
Physician practices are looking for all the help they can get to implement EHRs, and North Chelmsford, Mass.-based consulting firm Concordant believes that should include do-it-yourself tools online.
HIMSS10: KLAS reports strong interest in ambulatory EMRs
"The vision for meaningful use is, I think, fantastic," said Adam Gale, president of research firm KLAS Enterprises. "But beyond the vision for meaningful use is some reality," added Gale, who spoke
Obama budget calls for more funding for ONC, comparative effectiveness
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology would get a $17 million funding boost, to a total of $78 million, under the Obama administration's budget proposal for fiscal
Study: Stronger privacy rules slow EMR adoption
In a conclusion that isn't likely to please health privacy wonks, a group of researchers have published a paper suggesting that tighter health privacy rules could significantly slow the rate of EMR
NC hospital, medical practices begin shift to IT
Novant Health Inc. and Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center said that despite the influx of $19 billion in health IT stimulus funds, they already have been converting their paper records to
Will HIT stimulus work? Readers are pessimistic
Last week, I presented the views of Dr. Donald Simborg on how the health IT stimulus would effect the industry. In his note , Dr. Simborg lays out two alternate futures for health IT stimulus funding.
Case study: EMR incentives convince LA physicians to buy in
If the following is a reflection of what will happen as the federal stimulus rolls out, policymakers should be very happy. A federal pilot product designed to help doctors choose, set up and pay for
