AMA urges evaluation of MU program
Date: Jan 15, 2013 While many healthcare providers are lucky if they’ve moved beyond even Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, policymakers are well into considering the potential details of Stage 3.
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EHRs are dead! Long live EHRs!
Date: Jan 14, 2013 What a difference a follow-up report can make!
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Can health IT solve our doctor shortage?
Date: Jan 11, 2013 Perhaps the greatest risk in policy discussions, when it comes to the topic of health IT, is the relentless potential for irrational exuberance.
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Study points to importance of training
Date: Jan 10, 2013 Sometimes it takes a study to deliver a message that, to put it mildly, we probably should have expected.
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"A perfect storm of innovation”: The future according to Nuance's Dr. Nick van Terheyden
Date: Jan 08, 2013 Yesterday, we surveyed a survey of a number of health IT stakeholders to get a sense of some regrets for the last year and hopes for the next.
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Looking forward, looking back
Date: Jan 07, 2013 As a rule, we generally wait until the dust is settling on the holidays before we engage in any post-mortems for the year gone by or predictions for the year ahead.
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Policymakers need accurate reporting on Beacon programs
Date: Jan 04, 2013 The funding for ONC’s Beacon Communities program is slated to run out in 2013, and officials and other stakeholders are beginning to point to the program’s successes.
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Privacy concerns follow move to cloud
Date: Jan 02, 2013 Cloud computing is an increasingly attractive option for many healthcare providers, primarily due to the potential cost savings and ease of use.
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How not to prepare for the future
Date: Dec 31, 2012 Given the rapidly expandling role of IT across the healthcare sector, it would seem safe to assume that medical schools have climbed aboard the bandwagon along with most other stakeholders.
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California: not quite wired yet
Date: Dec 28, 2012 Under the HITECH program, the state of California is projected to receive up to $3 billion dollars, most of which will be distributed as incentive payments to hospitals and providers that meet Meaningful Use requirements.
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