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The relaxation of the Stark Law enables hospitals to bear up to 85 percent of the cost of electronic health record implementation for community physician offices. Despite the generous subsidy, cost is still a barrier for many physicians, according to panelists at the Economic Stimulus Track session, "Real-World CIOs Who Implemented EHR Subsidies Under Stark."
Version 2.1 of the Federal Health Architecture's Nationwide Health Information Network CONNECT software is expected some time next month.
GE Healthcare has opened what its executives call a state-of-the-art digital mammography production facility at the Rensselaer Technology Park in Greenbush, N.Y.
Hospitals are cutting staff, IT resources and education for infection prevention at a time when healthcare-associated infections are on the rise, says a new report.
The American Medical Association will convene its five-day annual meeting here on June 13 with a policy-filled agenda that includes discussion of the healthcare IT provisions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.
The Washington Post has launched Health Reform Rx, an online panel made up of officials, industry leaders and newsmakers to address issues in healthcare.
Fixing the nation's broken healthcare system cannot wait, President Obama said Saturday in his weekly address. The government could pay for reform now, he said, by eliminating waste and fraud and taking on key causes of rising costs.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City is planning to implement a healthcare management platform to its 880,000 members this month.
Even as the healthcare IT industry awaits the official definition of "meaningful use" from the federal government, a new report from KLAS examines which electronic medical record products should fit that description.
In the first quarter of 2009, chief information officers experienced significant IT budget revisions, according to a survey by Gartner.