Health Care It Scope

In his State of the Union speech, President Barack Obama made just one explicit mention of the 2010 health law. Here is a transcript of the few parts of his speech that mentioned health care issues: Innovation also demands basic research. Today,...

WASHINGTON  - The U.S. government Friday laid out incentives for states and people to participate in health insurance exchanges, including tax credits and funding grants for the states.The health regulators also clarified how they will decide who is...

By Mary Mosquera The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT could include in the requirements for the next stage of meaningful use some functions that would build toward the comprehensive information exchange system that a presidential...

By John Moore Regional extension centers are gearing up fast to help healthcare providers quickly get up to speed on the newly released final rule on meaningful use. The Office of the National Coordinator has funded 60 centers nationwide, so far....

Looking not at all like a compromise bill reached in April after months of negotiations between Sen. Tom George, R-Kalamazoo, and Rep. Marc Corriveau, D-Northville, the Michigan Senate Health Policy Committee has approved a two-bill health care reform...

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology will hold a series of conference calls to provide an overview of the final rule to establish a temporary certification program for electronic health records. Specific one-hour...

Last night, the House approved, 417-1, a Senate bill staving off a 21 percent cut in Medicare payments to doctors. Some lawmakers grumbled the bill doesn't go far enough, but President Barack Obama signed it today. The $6.5 billion...

By, Diana Manos WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations. The funding is allotted under The American Recovery and Reinvestment...

Iowa’s Medicaid program is the first to receive matching federal funds to plan for the implementation of an EHRs incentive program as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). According to the Centers for Medicare &...

The bill, introduced by Sen. John Kerry, would make small healthcare practices eligible for federal loans. By Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek Senator John Kerry introduced a bill designed to help family doctors fund conversion to electronic health...

On Wednesday, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal said the federal government would pay special attention to individual physicians and small group practices as it works to implement the health IT provisions of the federal economic stimulus...