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You can't write meaningful use policy without considering related rules for standards and certification, says CMS exec.

Emdeon is boosting its portfolio of service offerings to payers with the planned acquisition of Healthcare Technology Management Services.

Healthcare IT champions are applauding the broadband plan the government released Tuesday as a boon for health information technology.

Let it develop into the killer app that compels participation.

The International Council of Nurses and the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organization are collaborating to improve standardized information sharing for nurses and other clinical staff.

The comment period on the proposed meaningful use rule and the interim standards final rule closed Monday. On Wednesday, federal officials said they had so far collected some 2,700 comment letters.

With latest signings, a majority of Indiana's providers have vehicle for state-to-state health data exchange.

In a sobering keynote address at the 2010 World of Health IT Conference and Exhibition, eHealth researcher Enrico Coiera of University of New South Wales, Australia said industry enthusiasts who back, uncritically, national-scale HIT systems need to prepare themselves for some very bad news.

Twitter will soon be an essential tool for medical practices according to a poll conducted by Case Western University, an independent research university in Cleveland.

In launching NHIN Direct, a set of tools designed to make it easier for small providers to share electronic health information securely, health IT policymakers are forcing states to rethink their plans for rolling out health information services in their communities.