Health Care It Scope

Hospital CIOs are rapidly losing confidence in their organization's ability to qualify early for federal subsidies for "meaningful use" of EMRs, according to an updated survey from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. In a...

In February 2009, President Obama and the Congress launched a vast, ambitious program to improve the health of Americans, and the performance of their health system, by building a nationwide, interoperable, private and secure, electronic health...

On Friday, Kentucky Gov. Steve Beshear (D) announced the creation of a new office designed to serve as a single point of contact for state and federal agencies working on health IT initiatives, the AP/Lexington Herald-Leader reports (AP/Lexington...

Molly Merrill, Associate Editor President Barack Obama called for fixing the broken healthcare system by building upon investments made in electronic medical records in a town hall meeting held last month. The town hall was held at Northern Virginia...

Diana Manos, Senior Editor The Department of Health and Human Services issued new regulations Wednesday requiring healthcare providers, health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to notify...

Diana Manos, Senior Editor The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is now releasing healthcare IT funding from the stimulus package to state Medicaid programs. According to a CMS letter mailed Wednesday to state Medicaid directors, the American...

Diana Manos, Senior Editor The Department of Health and Human Services issued new regulations Wednesday requiring healthcare providers, health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to notify...

By Mary Mosquera The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) plans to test its ability to accept selected clinical quality data directly from hospital electronic health record systems as early as July 2010. CMS said it would seek volunteer...

If the state's governor gets his way, Kentucky will soon be home to a statewide electronic health records system. To foster that goal, State Gov. Steve Beshear (D) has created the Governor's Office of Electronic Health Information. The state is creating...

Source: US National Governors' Association As the national dialogue on health care reform continues, health information technology (IT) and health information exchange (HIE) have emerged as critical means to ensuring a health care system that is...

Looks like Big Brother is finally coming to the Bluegrass State. Governor Steve Beshear announced last week that state government would begin compiling the health records of all Kentuckians in a central computer data base. What could possibly go wrong? ...

By Anne Zieger If the state's governor gets his way, Kentucky will soon be home to a statewide electronic health records system. To foster that goal, State Gov. Steve Beshear (D) has created the Governor's Office of Electronic Health Information. The...

The requirements for what health IT users need to do to meet the meaningful use dictates of the stimulus law are now clearer, with the focus apparently swinging to how the IT certification process will handle them. Healthcare providers finally have some...

FISMA is becoming a roadblock for electronic health record implementation, Government Health IT magazine reported this week. The Federal Information and Security Management Act (FISMA), passed by Congress in 2002 to better protect the federal government...

Maryland further strengthened the goals of the stimulus package or the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) this past week by passing legislation that required insurers to provide “monetary” incentives for physicians to adopt electronic...