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The regional extension centers (RECs) were a main focus for healthcare IT stakeholders this year.

With a more urgent timeline for data sharing across the country, the government is now rethinking the Nationwide Health Information Network – the NHIN.

There are two ways of looking at upcoming compliance deadlines for HIPAA 5010 and ICD-10, Healthcare IT News reported in March.

In January, a provocative survey sponsored jointly by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) and Dell, found that data centers of small and medium-sized hospitals in North America, Europe and China are not prepared for the "wave of data" that will soon be inundating them.

In March, with Detroit feeling the acute pain of the Great Recession even worse than many cities, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan tried a novel approach to staffing it hoped would help.

The proposed meaningful use criteria up for public comment reflected “thoughtful policy,” David Brailer, MD, told Healthcare IT News shortly after the government made the rule public on Dec. 30, 2009.

In 2010, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology granted more than $250 million to 17 "beacon communities" nationwide that exemplify the positive impact of healthcare IT on population health.

In the year 2010 doctors should be looking at technologies that could help boost their communication with their patients, experts told Healthcare IT News in January.

In July, Hospital CIOs across the country reviewed the final rule on meaningful use of health IT with some relief that the government had given up its all-or-nothing approach.

Federal officials released the final rule on meaningful use July 13 - setting the criteria for physicians and hospitals to qualify for thousands of dollars in stimulus funding incentives for the adoption of electronic health records.