Meaningful Use
One of the federal goals of having providers implement EHRs is to better track, manage and improve population health, but a recently published report by the Department of Health and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) finds that EHRs aren't equipped to complete those tasks.
As hospitals across the country strive to roll out electronic medical records and cope with an estimated shortage of more than 50,000 information technology professionals, Duke University is expanding its informatics programs.
The National Institutes of Health has launched a nationwide IT-supported research initiative using human studies to define changes in the human immune system in response to infection or to vaccination.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is readying a set of electronic accounting and processing tools that will help authenticate, track and manage payments to healthcare providers participating in the federal meaningful use financial incentive program.
Christine Bechtel, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families and member of the federal health IT policy committee, testified at a recent Committee on Ways and Means hearing.
The Rev. Will Bloedow of Appleton, Wis., was at the Health Industry Forum in Boston touting the benefits of EMRs.
Christiana Care Health System a private, not-for-profit tertiary-care hospital system with locations in Wilmington and Newark, Del., has announced two major initiatives that aim to drive healthcare IT adoption.
There's a sense of relief across the industry that the just-unveiled meaningful use criteria are less stringent than many had feared, striking the right note between rules-based accountability and the freedom needed to foster wider implementation.
In this NewsMaker interview, Healthcare IT News editor Bernie Monegain discusses John Glaser's eleven months as adviser to ONC chief David Blumenthal.
"In today’s final rule, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has made some important improvements. However, the American Hospital Association (AHA) remains concerned that the requirements may be out of reach for many of America’s hospitals..."