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Drug agency's Interim Final Rule adds technology twist to acceptable methods for authenticating e-prescription orders.
On Wednesday, the Office of the Federal Register made the DEA's Interim Final Rule on electronic prescribing of controlled substances available for public inspection.
Colorado is one of six states that will 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.
The Office of the National Coordinator plans to release in the next two months a set of draft standards for "NHIN Direct," an abridged set of specifications for the National Health Information Network that would give providers a simple way to exchange health information securely over the Internet.
ONC must develop specs for secure transport service so small providers can qualify for meaningful use incentives by 2011.
The building of insurance exchanges, quality measures reporting and long-term care dependent on IT investment.
Executives are touting the Dell Medical Archiving Solution as a "new storage model for healthcare" that will help meet the data archiving challenges posed by the profusion of EMRs and sophisticated medical imaging.
The remote health management market (RHM) is the smallest, but fastest growing segment of the home health management (HHM) market, according to global strategy consulting firm, Scientia Advisors. But to reach its full potential health insurers must broaden their reimbursement practices to encourage greater physician adoption, the firm says.
GE Healthcare announced Wednesday morning the acquisition of MedPlexus, Inc., a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based developer of EMR/PM solutions for independent clinical practices.
Silver Hill Hospital, a nationally recognized psychiatric hospital with 129 licensed beds in the New York City suburb of New Canaan, Conn., has implemented the OpenVista electronic health record.