Government & Policy
Chairman Halamka said the panel's work provided a foundation for current health IT 'meaningful use' scheme.
The all-payor, all-claims database will provide more robust, long-term analysis, HHS says.
HHS updates the federally-developed Connect software gateway as part of plan to add key HIE features quarterly.
HIT standards proposed by the national coordinator designed to spur adoption at the outset of the incentive plan; fine tune later.
Grassley wants to resolve complaints about health IT vendors before administration rolls out $19 billion in stimulus funds.
The Military Health System is using new IT tools to guide capital planning, one way it hopes to avoid a future health facilities crisis.
DOD's first strategic health IT plan in a decade stresses "rapid, responsive, reliable" delivery of new services.
Remember those fighting for their lives --- and health records.
The commission will update its full and modular EHR certification programs to conform to new federal meaningful use standards.
For years a crisis has been brewing for many people who have become tangled up in a cyber-age web where healthcare records are being generated and maintained across an ever-broadening spectrum of healthcare delivery systems.