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The comment period on the proposed meaningful use rule and the interim standards final rule closed March 15. On March 17, federal officials said they had collected some 2,700 comment letters.
President Barack Obama will soon nominate Donald Berwick, MD, to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to a statement released Saturday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), ranking member of the Senate Finance Committee.
Advocate Physician Partners (APP), the largest network of independent physicians in the Midwest, has partnered with Westborough, Mass.-based eClinicalWorks for one of the biggest electronic medical record (EMR) implementations in the country.
The federal incentives target electronic medical and health records, but other healthcare technologies have the potential to transform the industry, a panel of investors said last week at the Health Technology Investment Forum.
The percentage of small physician practices that are planning to implement an EMR has grown in the last six months, according to a new vendor survey. But while the percentage of respondents who said the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) was driving technology adoption more than doubled during this period, most are still unaware of requirements and nearly half say it will not impact their buying decision.
On Monday, Thomson Reuters released its annual study identifying the 100 top U.S. hospitals based on their overall organizational performance. The 10 areas measured, such as adherence to clinical standards and patient safety, are boosted by the use of information technology.
'Connect' software update will offer cloud-based options for setting up health information exchange services.
For all the excited talk about the potential for IT to transform the healthcare industry for the better, many doctors are skeptical about the future, according to a recent survey conducted by athenahealth, the provider of online practice management and EMR tools, and Sermo, the largest online community for physicians.
Kathy Mechler, COO and co-director of the Texas A&M Health Science Center (HSC) Rural and Community Health Institute (RCHI), a resource for physicians and healthcare facilities operating in rural areas, shares how the institute is using technology to improve the peer review process, in a Q&A with Healthcare IT News.
A new report finds that adults living with chronic diseases are less likely to have access to the Internet, but are also more likely to use social media as a tool for coping with their condition.