A "Drop in the bucket" for Montana GOP lawmakers isn't a drop in the bucket for healthcare providers
Date: Mar 22, 2011 Republican state legislators approved a spending bill in the Montana House of Rep. earlier this month to reject millions of federal dollars for the state's Dept. of Public Health and Human Services and the federal incentive dollars for meaningful use of EHRs.
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Politics rears its ugly head in healthcare IT
Date: Jan 31, 2011 The "Party of No" strikes again.
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Can we keep politics out of meaningful use?
Date: Jul 28, 2010 The "Party of No" continues its unrelenting assault on anything the current administration does, and its latest victim is the final meaningful use criteria. Really.
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How will Berwick impact health IT adoption?
Date: Jul 09, 2010 While Congress was in recess, President Obama appointed Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since 2006. Let's forget the usual politics for a moment and focus on the impact this appointment will make on health IT adoption.
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HITSP to continue to blaze a trail
Date: Jan 27, 2010 It was reported on Jan. 26 that the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, better known as HITSP, will close shop when its contract expires Jan. 31, but John Halamka, MD, said a contract extension will keep HITSP operational until ONC awards work for the next evolution of standards development.
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Learn how to "thrive"
Date: Sep 15, 2009 It's been almost six years since former President Bush declared that he wanted every American to have an electronic health record (EHR) by 2014. President Obama has taken up the cause, citing health IT as an important component the healthcare reform and transformation, and he put our money on it.
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H.R. 3014 helps the little guys
Date: Sep 03, 2009 Congress is returning to Capitol Hill on Tuesday, September 8, with healthcare reform staring them in the face. It's been a scorching summer in more ways than one, but there's one piece of legislation that should get a quick pass.
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