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The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments intend to test more complex health data sets and include more participants in its second "VLER Community" project, the latest in a planned series of live tests of a Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record for military community members and their families.

Healthcare providers looking to marry clinical and revenue cycle management operations are finding a willing suitor in Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions.

Since the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in early 2009, and the definition of "meaningful use" of an EMR, the healthcare CIO is looking at a much larger range of responsibilities.

Next Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record pilot will start July 31 with more partners, more features, says VA exec.

Physicians are considering an ever-increasing number of software vendors when shopping for the right electronic medical record system, according to a new report from research firm KLAS.

Some regional extension centers (RECs) - federally funded healthcare IT resource centers to help providers adopt IT and qualify for meaningful use - will open nationwide in the next few weeks, according to federal officials.

Twenty-eight awards made to fund 'elbow-to-elbow' assistance to providers setting up health IT systems.

Patient engagement should be a critical piece of the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, public comment on a draft framework indicates.

Premier healthcare alliance has launched a new meaningful use best-practices library to help hospitals effectively implement electronic health records and earn Medicare and Medicaid bonuses.

The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday awards for more than $267 million to 28 non-profit organizations to establish Health Information Technology Regional Extension Centers.