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Grants to Harvard, Mayo Clinic, Illinois and Texas fund ways to crack health IT's toughest challenges.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has awarded $60 million in research grants through the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) program to the Mayo Clinic of Medicine, Harvard University, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Funds will provide extra support to small rural and critical access hospitals in setting up electronic healthcare systems.
Deloitte will assist states with infrastructure, governance and technical operations in setting up health information exchanges.
If Donald Berwick, MD, is confirmed as administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, he and David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, would be a "dream team" in pursuing a coherent national healthcare and health IT strategy.
Doylestown Hospital near Philadelphia has launched the next phase of its health IT connectivity initiative to share information with community physicians.
Pharmacy OneSource, of Bellevue, Wa., a software-as-a-service provider to more than 1,300 hospitals in the United States, announced the launch of VeriForm, a new web-based hospital checklist documentation and reporting system.
President Barack Obama roused an enthusiastic crowd in support of his landmark health reform in Maine on Thursday, touting a new course that will "build on the system of private health insurance that we already have," making coverage "more secure and more affordable" for those who already have it, and allowing those who don't have coverage to "finally be able to get it."
Thirty-seven Democrats call for HHS to allow providers to defer some meaningful use requirements.
The Medicare recovery audit contracting (RAC) project has some accountability, integrity and reliability shortcomings, according to a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).