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A contract to National Government Services will support efforts to verify meaningful use, prepare payments and track them for accuracy.
In an effort to expand clinical informatics offerings, Royal Philips Electronics has entered into an agreement to acquire the business of CDP Medical Ltd, an Israel-based provider of picture archiving and communication systems.
An opt-in only policy on using EHRs could reduce the meaningful use of health data.
ONC has awarded $15 million in two new contracts for work on the Nationwide Health Information Network. The contracts, awarded to systems integrator Stanley Inc., follow another $6 million contract announced on Aug. 2.
Healthcare providers who already use electronic health records urged a federal health IT advisory panel last week to add more goals for improving patient care coordination into the meaningful use financial incentive plan.
"Trends in technology are changing the employment landscape," said Terry Erdle, senior vice president, skills certification of CompTIA at Breakaway 2010, the premier event for IT companies in North America. That means IT workers will need to have different and more advanced skills.
On Friday, doctors in Nepal will leverage a new IT solution to participate in an educational session, watching live video of a surgery performed halfway around the world.
Scheme will help assure the identity of service members, a key challenge of the military's lifetime electronic record project.
The popularity of phones using Google's Android operating system are proving that Apple's iPhone and iPad aren't the only mobile platforms seeing action in the health IT marketplace.
The state's public welfare office is staging a new IT system it hopes will streamline meaningful use incentive payments to Medicaid providers.