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The administration's health IT incentive plan is a rare opportunity for health practices to get help going digital, but for some it might be too much, too soon.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has announced that Medicaid programs in Tennessee and Pennsylvania will receive federal matching funds for state planning activities to implement the electronic health record incentive program established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

GE Healthcare and Intel have expanded their sales and marketing agreement for the Intel Health Guide to include the United Kingdom.

The National Quality Forum has endorsed 70 measures designed to increase the use of electronic data platforms to measure, report and improve quality of healthcare.

Tenet Healthcare will implement healthcare information technology at 47 hospitals, putting its move from paper charts to electronic health records on the fast track.

Trinity Health, a Novi, Mich.-based health system, has acquired several electronic health record and enterprise practice management licenses to help its member providers adopt a patient-centered medical home model of care.

First reactions to HIT incentive proposal range from criticism of its complexity to praise for a focus on patient needs and care coordination.

Physicians and privacy advocates aren't pleased with the newly proposed "meaningful use" requirements with which providers will likely have to comply to gain bonuses under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Scott MacLean, a hospital CIO in the Boston suburbs, is one of the 10 rising stars that healthcare IT leaders say they'll be watching in 2010.

Caritas Christi Health Care of Boston, billed as the largest community-based hospital system in New England, is expanding its electronic healthcare record service to its physician networks.