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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="194" caption="John Loonsk, MD, FACMI, is chief medical officer for CGI Federal. From 2006-2009, he was director of interoperability and standards in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information...

Care for patients with diabetes improved appreciably when their physicians use electronic health records (EHRs) extensively, according to a recent study. Physicians who participated in the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative from 2006 to 2008...

Since the advent of the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 and the more recent Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009, healthcare providers have worked to create effective and creative...

The cost, physician practice size, and lack of technical resources still present barriers for small healthcare providers in adopting electronic health records and participating in the meaningful use incentive program. Solo practitioners and small...

Health plan executives say their three major challenges are figuring out how to deal with healthcare reform, the health insurance industry's systemic shift from wholesale to retail business and bending the cost curve. Resolving the challenges...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will pay physicians four to eight weeks after they verify that they have satisfied conditions for meaningful use of electronic health records. That means that the soonest that CMS will issue incentives is...

For those of you who do not know me personally, I am an internist and have been in private practice in central Florida for more than 30 years. Like so many of you, I have had to make changes -- expensive changes -- over the years to keep my office up...

The Homeland Security Department plans to acquire an electronic health record system to improve the quality and efficiency of its health care for illegal aliens and other foreign fugitives detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Clinicians with electronic health record (EHR) systems from Epic Systems and Greenway Medical Technologies may be best prepared to qualify for federal incentive payments for using the technology in a "meaningful" way, according to KLAS, a firm that...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 made a significant investment to encourage the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) by healthcare providers and the chiropractic industry. Under the new program, due to begin in 2011,...

Electronic health records get a special nod in the new national quality strategy release this week by the Department of Health and Human Services. The strategy, which was called for under the Affordable Care Act, is an initiative designed to establish...

In today’s Internet era, the way we view, edit, and exchange documents has changed to a new advanced level. This has also led to emergence of electronic Medical Records (EMR) in the field of healthcare. Earlier, there was no other option for...

I knew when I couldn't find a parking spot that life would never be the same. The day had finally arrived: September 14, 2010. As I left for work that morning, I told my wife not to expect me for dinner—maybe not even for breakfast the next...

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="175" caption="Gov. Brian Schweitzer (D-Mont.)"][/caption] HELENA, MT – The Montana Senate voted to restore the $35 million in federal incentives for electronic medical records for hospitals and community...

Physicians who fail to tackle quality improvement, adopt electronic medical records and embrace teamwork risk being at a competitive disadvantage with doctors who join the modern era of health care, federal officials warned physicians at the AMA...