Government & Policy
Veterans agency wants to update its electronic health record system to monitor reaction of physicians to clinical alerts.
HIT Policy Committee panel wants to ease burden on providers to report multiple meaningful use measures.
Grant awards designed to help administration meet goal to help 100,000 providers digitize their practices and clinical processes.
Four small hospitals band together to set-up health information exchange in time to apply for incentive funds under the stimulus plan.
Senate pares down version of bill that would have made hospital-based outpatient physicians eligible for HIT incentive funds.
Senate Finance committee jobs bill expands the types of physicians who can qualify for meaningful use incentives.
Extension center contractors will be held to account for helping providers past the hurdles of 'meaningful use'.
Federal health architecture director lays out a vision for government's role in the health IT 'ecosystem'.
VA sets up contest to choose 100 best health IT ideas to help improve agency healthcare practices and outcomes.
More than 30 organizations across Canada are mobilizing, deploying health IT, in $15M fight against chronic disease.