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There is no doubt that many healthcare providers feel they were left out of the game when it comes to meaningful use (MU).

For more than two years now, the focus of healthcare conversation has been on how the provider community will ensure “meaningful use” of electronic medical records.

Although the Oct.1, 2013, deadline for the migration to ICD-10 draws closer, even the skeptics are beginning to get on board with enterprise-wide preparations.

Art Glasgow is the Chief information officer for Duke Medicine, and the Former chief technology officer for Ingenix

The new health IT jobs that were promised as part of the government’s big push toward digital medical records are there, and there are plenty of job seekers to fill them, but are they the right people for the jobs?

With hospitals "raising the bar" to meet meaningful use requirements, new positions are being created within IT departments that have a focus on quality and data, says one consultant.

Study shows that patients treated via telehealth technologies did as well as those who were physically present in a medical center.

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking comments on approaches that will enable providers and other healthcare entities to obtain and manage digital certificates that are cross-certified with the Federal Bridge.

Patients that were treated for Hepatitis C in local communities via telehealth technology did as well as patients treated at a university-based medical center, results of a new study funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality show.

A limited number of users are testing the graphical user interface at DOD's and VA's medical centers in Honolulu, with North Chicago to start a GUI pilot during the summer.