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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 [...]

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 [...]

The National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship (NCCS) announced its support of the two final rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for the electronic health record incentive programs at a briefing hosted by the U.S. Department of Health 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 [...]

Eclipsys Corporation (NASDAQ: ECLP), The Outcomes Company, announced that Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital (Camden-Clark), a 273-bed community hospital located in Parkersburg, WV, has signed a multimillion dollar agreement to support clinical excellence and business transformation goals. New client Camden-Clark will pursue becoming a top performing hospital by replacing legacy competitor technology with the entire Sunrise Enterprise? [...]

Greenway Medical Technologies, Inc. applauds the final EHR meaningful use requirements released July 13 by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) (see also Medicare and Medicaid).The rules respectively define the functionality certified EHRs must provide and the incentive capture reporting objectives [...]

Allscripts (NASDAQ:MDRX) extended its support for the US Health and Human Services Department’s release of the final rule on "meaningful use" of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) (see also Electronic Medical Records).The rule clarifies the requirements physicians must satisfy to earn financial incentives for automating and connecting their practices under the HITECH Act, part of [...]

NORWALK, Ohio, July 26 The office of Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, has issued the following news release:U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) today visited Fisher-Titus Medical Center (FTMC) in Norwalk. Fisher-Titus recently became one of the first all-digital ("smart") hospitals in the country. Each patient at Fisher-Titus will have a single, integrated electronic medical record [...]