Mary Mosquera
Policymakers must scope out second stage incentives to give vendors enough time to update EHR systems.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services provides 90 percent match to help states administer incentive payments to Medicaid providers.
Grants will focus on enabling care coordination for patients with complex and chronic conditions.
Veterans Affairs is adding more complex health records that can be retrieved with the click of a button, says top tech officer.
Grants will go to 46 regional health IT extension centers to support EHRs in small critical care hospitals.
Survey finds most physicians use their own mobile devices in their practices even if they are not supported by IT staff.
Early survey of health IT regional extension centers shows them slowly starting to market tech services to providers.
The Health IT Policy Committee's newest work group will propose governance processes for how to use the nationwide health information network.
The Web site would speed the registration and verification of health care workers who want to respond to disaster emergencies.
ONC-funded education programs to help reduce a shortfall of 50,000 skilled health IT workers needed in medical offices.