Government & Policy

National coordinator asks regional extension centers to consider using health care CIOs in health IT adoption project.

Many questions relate to how to ensure providers meet meaningful use for systems they are already using.

Senate Appropriations Committee directs DOD and VA to report on plans to coordinate their EHR modernization projects.

At meeting, health IT meaningful use panel also sketches out ideas for setting 2013 incentive measures.

In five months, Regional Extension Center is already half-way to its target of signing up 1,000 providers.

Community health centers respond to incentives to set-up patient-centered medical homes and hit meaningful use marks.

Health IT firm will deploy tools for health information sharing among military and commercial providers in the Pacific Northwest.

States are turning to sophisticated provider credential verification systems that use Web crawling technologies to curb fraud, cut manual overhead and improve patient safety.

National health IT boss talked about e-prescribing and meaningful use at a meeting sponsored by Surescripts.

The use of the National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) to promote health information exchange represents a major shift of direction by policymakers working on expediting use of the Nationwide Health Information Network.The NIEM (pronounced "NEEM") is a working model for standardizing information exchange that has been operating among federal, state and local government agencies in areas such as emergency management and law enforcement.