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Electronic Health Record

J-Co launches consulting for safe technology adoption

Industry News | Thursday, March 04 2010
 

HIMSS: McKesson hones EHR products for meaningful use

Conference News | Thursday, March 04 2010
 

HIMSS Exclusive Video: Michael Zaroukian, MD, PhD, CMIO of Michigan State

Conference News | Wednesday, March 03 2010
 

HIMSS: Radiology and IT depts need to marry their skills

Conference News | Wednesday, March 03 2010
Written by Gina Narcisi
 

HIMSS: Blumenthal emphasizes need for input on CMS proposals

Conference News | Tuesday, March 02 2010
 

Interoperability and Public Health: CDC, Making the Connection with EHRs

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Interoperability: Leveraging the ONC/HITSP Roadmap for Cost-effective Chronic Care

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Demonstrating Meaningful Use through Quality Measures

Previews | Thursday, February 25 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Physician Synergy Session: Integration of Mobile Health Applications in Healthcare

Previews | Wednesday, February 24 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Getting Clinical Decision Support Right: Best Practices and Perspectives from Quality Leaders and ON

Previews | Wednesday, February 24 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Clinical Decision Support with EHRs

Previews | Wednesday, February 24 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Quality Measures and Clinical Decision Support in EHRs

Previews | Wednesday, February 24 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Community HIEs with Multiple EHRs Resulting in an Integrated Community EHR

Previews | Tuesday, February 23 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Dealing with Malpractice Liability in the Use of EHRs, PHRs, and HIEs

Previews | Tuesday, February 23 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Eight Rights of EHR-Based Safe Care

Previews | Monday, February 22 2010
Written by Editorial Staff
 

Acumen nabs ONC cloud computing contract

Contracts & Installations | Tuesday, February 16 2010
 

Report: SaaS, speech recognition keys to EHR vendors' success

Industry News | Tuesday, January 26 2010
 

HHS issues $38M in new health IT workforce grants

Industry News | Monday, January 04 2010
 

CCHIT certifies 14 EHR products under ARRA criteria

Industry News | Sunday, January 03 2010
 

HHS launches $60M program to fund health IT research projects

Top Stories | Sunday, December 20 2009
 


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AHRQ: Health IT could be disruptive while reducing rehospitalization rates, costs

 The use of health IT to reduce rehospitalizations will be welcome but also disruptive, said Stephen Jencks, an independent consultant in healthcare safety during a Feb. 24 webinar on the potential use of health IT to mitigate rehospitalizations, sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ).

Health IT Standards Committee: Clinical Operations group seeks specificity in standards

 During the Health IT Standards Committee meeting on Feb. 24 in Washington, D.C., the Clinical Operations Workgroup sought to gather comments on proposed recommendations on implementation specifications for content exchange, vocabulary and code set standards for the Interim Final Rule of meaningful use.

Q&A: Maine HIE works through a variety of challenges

 The state of Maine currently has the largest operating statewide exchange in the country in relation to population. Although Devore Culver, Executive Director of Maine’s HealthInfoNet, expects that distinction to change in the months ahead, the state’s HIE is entering the final months of its demonstration phase, and is slated to move in to its full statewide implementation in the second half of 2010. Culver, who is former CIO of Eastern Maine Health Care, recently spoke with CMIO about the progress HealthInfoNet has made.   

Webinar: How-to guide for e-medical device reporting to the FDA

 In 2006, the Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH), a branch of the FDA, began examining the number of medical device reports they received. Over the past two years, the number of submitted reports has increased, sparking a demand for the CDRH to make a move to electronic reporting.

New patient monitoring model draws scrutiny

 A new hospital breaking ground usually isn’t breaking news. But the vision of patient care at one new facility, tentatively named Palomar Medical Center West (PMC West), is currently illegal under California state law.

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