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DENVER, July 29 /PRNewswire/ Recognizing that earlier in July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released rules outlining which health care providers will get government funding to support their implementation of electronic health record systems (EHR), leaders at the Colorado Regional Health Information [...]

Company Declares Regular Quarterly Dividend of $0.36 Per Share MOBILE, Ala.(BUSINESS WIRE) Computer Programs and Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CPSI): Second Quarter Highlights: [...]

Health Information Technology: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record TechnologySUMMARY: The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is issuing this final rule to complete the adoption of an initial set of standards, implementation specifications, and certification criteria, and to more closely align such standards, implementation specifications, and [...]

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, July 28 /PRNewswire/ Community oncologists, practice administrators and clinical staff interested in learning the requirements of the meaningful-use regulations in order to receive federal stimulus payments towards adopting a certified electronic health record (EHR) are invited to attend a free webinar at 2 p.m. EDT (11 a.m. PDT) on Friday, August [...]

SEATTLE, July 28, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Peggy Evans, PhD, CPHIT, Director of the Washington & Idaho Regional Extension Center (WIREC) testified before the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Subcommittee of Health, Tuesday, July 27, 2010, in Washington, DC. Dr. Evans joined David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and several others [...]

FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS Certain statements used in the following discussion and elsewhere in thisQuarterly Report on Form 10-Q, including statements regarding our futurefinancial position and results of operations, business strategy and plans andobjectives of management for future operations and statements containing thewords "believe," "may," "will," "estimate," "continue," "anticipate," "intend,""expect" and similar expressions, as they [...]

Westbury Hospital is implementing an electronic medical records system from Prognosis Health Information Systems – a move that is putting the new 137-bed acute care hospital on the fast track toward meeting meaningful use requirements and qualifying for incentive funds associated with the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)."We are a brand new hospital and [...]

The Iowa Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (HITREC) has selected Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc., provider of the single-database, integrated electronic health record (EHR), practice management and interoperability solution PrimeSuite, as a preferred EHR solution for its statewide deployment program within the federal Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) REC healthcare grant program.The Iowa [...]

Hospitals that adopt advanced computer technology to identify healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are more likely to have implemented best practices to prevent such infections, according to research presented today at the 37th Annual Conference and International Meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) (see also Association for Professionals in Infection Control).Researchers [...]

ARLINGTON, VA (MARKET WIRE) 07/27/10 Vangent, Inc., a leading global provider of information management and strategic business process solutions, will upgrade the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)’s Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA) to meet Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Electronic Transaction Standards, enabling streamlined third-party health [...]