John Moore
The building of insurance exchanges, quality measures reporting and long-term care dependent on IT investment.
State cedes to vendor concerns; will solicit proposals to build statewide health information exchange.
Health IT firms say they are ready with systems equipped for 'meaningful use', but for providers hoping to qualify for federal incentives, time is of the essence.
But plans are already underway to expand HealthInfoNet once its demonstration phases ends this summer.
Surgeon General Benjamin announces plan to extend family health history tool via third-party personal health record systems.
Office of the National Coordinator picks Acumen Solutions to set up cloud-based software for tracking health IT training services.
Health network standards group does not rule out becoming a certification body for electronic health record systems.
The systems used to verify 'meaningful use' will help determine whether $34 billion in federal health IT incentives is money well spent.