Meaningful Use news and information

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is seeking members for its two advisory committees.
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There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. –Gore Vidal I'll suggest that you might find yourself thinking like Mr. Vidal.
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Join Ed Marx, CIO of Texas Health Resources, and Greg Miller, senior vice president of Medicity, as they share real-world strategies to prepare for Meaningful Use 2. With the comment period now over – and the final rule due out this summer – how should your organization prepare? The...
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In a biennial report, the California Health Information Partnership and Services Organization, a not-for-profit group focused on electronic health-record adoption, said it has reached a number of milestones to expand EHRs in the state.
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Multiple healthcare organizations hustled ahead of Monday's deadline to file comments on the proposed Stage 2 meaningful-use rules for the federally funded electronic health-records incentive payment programs under Medicare and Medicaid.
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Addressing the nation's healthcare executives, the head of the CMS highlighted common goals between the agency and the nation's hospitals before outlining the federal healthcare agency's top priorities.
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The American Hospital Association's insistence on a 30-day window to provide patients with their medical data catalyzed Internet critics with patient advocates saying the group was out of touch with patient needs.
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Journalists love a spirited debate, often for selfish reasons. No matter who loses in the verbal joust, we win with a good story.
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A group of chief information officers and other health information technology professionals is calling on the CMS to implement a 90-day demonstration period for the first year in which providers will attest to having met Stage 2 electronic health-record system meaningful-use requirements.
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American Hospital Association Executive Vice President Richard Pollack says the "digital divide" is widening between technologically advanced large and urban hospitals and their smaller and rural counterparts.
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