Meaningful Use news and information

Four developers of electronic health-record system are in a tight battle to become the most popular developer of complete, inpatient EHR systems that hospitals use to achieve meaningful use and receive Medicare EHR incentive payments, an analysis of federal program data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. has more physicians and other eligible professionals who have attested as meaningful users of complete electronic health-record systems in the ambulatory-care setting than any other vendor in a still-crowded and intensely competitive field, an analysis of federal data shows.
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a pioneer in the use of health information technology and rolled out its homegrown StarPanel electronic health record back in 2001. But this early experience didn't mean that meeting the meaningful-use requirements for the federal government's health IT...
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Medical groups need to tell their stories on how federal regulations are affecting their operations and it would be helpful if the physicians in those groups contributed financially to lobbying efforts, according to speakers at the American Medical Group Association annual conference, which ended...
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The Kansas Health Information Network may be the first statewide exchange in the country to provide a personal health record portal for patients, according to network officials.
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Now that many office-based physicians and a majority of hospitals have used electronic health-records systems for a year or longer, the federal government will work on nudging providers to get better at sharing the contents.
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Paul Barr, reporter for Modern Healthcare, runs through highlights of the last day of the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans, which included a keynote by Dr. Farzad Mostashari, national coordinator for health information technology at HHS.
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Stephen Lieber, President and CEO of HIMSS, chats with Modern Healthcare Reporter Joseph Conn about why he thinks this year's HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition in New Orleans was a success.
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Government efforts to encourage investment in EHRs appear to be working, according to data from a HIMSS survey.
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Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute, describes how patient-focused medical technology is going to change healthcare, in an interview with Merrill Goozner, editor of Modern Healthcare.
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