Health Care It Scope

This week, a loose federation of left-leaning groups is convening nearly 200 gatherings to peddle the virtues of health-care reform. A women’s speak-out in Philadelphia. A small-business round-table discussion in Albuquerque. A fish fry for seniors...

HHS' Health Resources and Services Administration has awarded three contracts totaling $9.2 million to the Georgia Health Policy Center to support programs that use health IT and other strategies to promote access to health care in rural areas of the...

Many physicians are eligible for federal incentive payments for the meaningful use of electronic health records but lack a basic EHR system, according to a study published in the journal Health Affairs, Healthcare IT News reports. Under the 2009...

There's a good chance the federal incentive funding has encouraged you to finally invest in an EHR. But not just any old EHR. Don't forget that to qualify for that cash, you have to select — and meaningfully use — certified EHR technology. But...

By Diana Manos, In a broad State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation. "In America, innovation doesn’t just change our lives,...

Neil Chesanow Malpractice insurers are looking glum. Right now, competition is driving down medical malpractice insurance rates. Their business is cyclical. While it has been doing well for the past few years, with 2011 also expected to be profitable,...

By Molly Merrill The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced Tuesday the launch of its new EHR certification program for hospitals, which has been successfully piloted at three U.S. medical centers. The...

The American Medical Association (AMA) and 103 state and specialty medical societies are urging the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to revise the Medicare e-prescribing penalty policy, which would penalize physicians in 2012 if they don't...

Hospital chief information officers are less confident than they were only a few months ago about their ability to meet federal requirements for meaningful use of electronic medical records. The biggest obstacle, they say, is getting physicians to use...

Electronic medical records appear to have varying effects on different types of primary care physicians based on whether they do more information review or information entry, according to a UC Davis study. The study, one of the first to measure the...

What does this mean and how can you invest in this technology and keep your files secure? By Mary Ann Fitzhugh One of the most common questions chiropractors and patients alike have about electronic health records (EHR) is how records stay...

GE Healthcare and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center have started tests of new digital pathology technology they developed under a joint venture. The technology, called Omnyx, enables the digitizing of glass pathology slides without loss of...

HIPAA and HITECH final rules could be published by the end of this year or early next year, a top lawyer for the Office for Civil Rights (OCR) says. Adam H. Greene, JD, MPH, senior health information technology and privacy specialist for OCR, gave...

Health Data Management has named six recipients of its inaugural EHR Game Changers Awards, which honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records technology. The 2010...

For most of my career as a family doctor, I kept track of my patients' health histories by scribbling hand-written notes in a paper chart. For a healthy child, I'd include dates when vaccines were given; for an adult with, say, diabetes, I'd make sure to...