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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,...

It’s easy to make predictions about health IT for the year to come, but what if someone asked what your IT wishes were for 2012? What would you like to see happen most in the health IT space? We asked Wendy Whittington, MD, a practicing pediatrician...

At the third annual mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., major players in the mobile arena noted the impact mobile phones and other devices have and will continue to have both in the US and across the globe. Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of...

In the course of meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria, Beaufort Memorial Hospital in Beaufort, S.C., will have the basic infrastructure in place for health information exchange, which by design will enable meeting the more complex HIE requirements...

The HHS Office for the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology announced today that more than 100,000 primary care providers are adopting certified Electronic Health Records (EHRs) to help improve their quality of care and ultimately lower...

Just as young businesses of most any sort must circumvent myriad challenges to succeed, health providers are encountering multiple roadblocks in the implementation of HIEs. At the core of those: financial sustainability. The root of many, perhaps, money...

[keyword id='Healthcare'] One of the biggest current obstacles to health information exchanges (HIEs) is the rather thorny matter of consent to data sharing. Patients are not the only wary ones, either. Providers often see patient protected health...

[keyword id='Healthcare'] A band of U.S. states and technology vendors came together to create technical specifications that enable EHRs to feed into HIEs. The specifications, agreed upon Tuesday, “leverage existing HL7 standards, technical...

Summer of 2012 will be an interesting time in healthcare, as Stage 2 requirements of meaningful use will finally come to light. In the meantime, doubts remain regarding the successful adoption of Stage 2 – and whether it’s even possible. As of now,...

Medicine and healthcare have been one of the most researched and studied branches of Science for centuries.  There are records of use of medicines as early as 500 B.C.  Research and development over millions of years has led to the establishment of the...

Hospitals and eligible professionals will continue to report clinical quality measures for electronic health records meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do this year. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services remains unable...

Eastern Connecticut Health Network (ECHN), a not-for-profit healthcare system, has contracted with MobileMD, a Yardley, Pa.-based vendor, to help it build a communitywide health information exchange. The HIE not only will provide connectivity among...

I'm going to answer this question with what I believe to be the correct answer: Yes, the healthcare industry is capable of doing security successfully. I base that belief not only on my experience over the last 20 plus years, but also because of the many...

The Children's Hospital of Boston, MA, a 392-bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care, records approximately 18,000 inpatient admissions each year, which translates to more than 150 outpatient programs and emergency services care for more than...

The Western Washington Rural Health Care Collaborative (WWRHCC) has a formidable challenge. The nonprofit health network comprising 10 critical access hospitals (CAHs) serves some 288,000 residents who for the most part are elderly and uninsured,...