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By Molly Merrill | 10:54 am | August 05, 2010
Six states and the District of Columbia are the latest to receive federal matching funds for state planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
By GHIT Staff | 06:36 pm | August 04, 2010
In a new bill, multi-campus hospitals would receive incentive payments that reflect their higher costs of launching health IT systems.
By Mary Mosquera | 01:41 pm | August 04, 2010
Privacy and Security Tiger Team considers how to enable patients to express preferences in sharing sensitive data.
By Mike Miliard | 12:07 pm | August 04, 2010
The health IT and services company has announced an agreement to purchase the Newtown Square, Pa.-based provider of medical necessity compliance and physician medical management solutions for hospitals.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:46 am | August 04, 2010
A new bipartisan bill aims to ensure that multi-campus hospitals that employ and show meaningful use of health IT systems receive incentive payments that reflect the higher costs of implementation.
By Mike Miliard | 11:40 am | August 04, 2010
Surescripts announced a service on Tuesday that seeks to make it easier for consumers to access an electronic record of their prescriptions via Microsoft HealthVault.
By Bernie Monegain | 11:22 am | August 04, 2010
The Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a two-year $6 million contract to Arlington, Va.-based Stanley, Inc. to provide operation and infrastructure support for the Nationwide Health Information Network.
By Chris Anderson | 08:42 am | August 04, 2010
The new online tool MyCare Advisor allows members to price shop based on historical claims data for 57 of the most common procedures at hospitals, ambulatory surgery centers and imaging centers.
By Molly Merrill | 04:54 pm | August 03, 2010
Radiologists' use of an advanced search tool that aims at improving the way they retrieve and sort data from an electronic medical record has the potential to benefit many other departments, according to one of the authors of a new study.
By Mary Mosquera | 03:46 pm | August 03, 2010
Indiana Health IT Extension Center picks athenahealth Inc., iSALUS Healthcare and MDLand as preferred providers.