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CMS counts early EHR incentive adopters

Mary Mosquera August 04, 2011
CMS has paid out $400 million in incentives, while 77,000 providers registered as of July for Medicare and Medicaid meaningful use programs.
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Q&A: The good, bad, and otherwise of ONC's Community College Consortium

 Tom Sullivan July 27, 2011
A recent graduate of the program discusses doors the courses could open, potential career directions he and classmates are considering and suggestions for improving the program.
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CHIME to OCR: DRSs too broad, variable

 Molly Merrill July 21, 2011
The organization is "extremely concerned about the entire concept of access reports," official says.
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Sharing data gains traction through Direct

 Mary Mosquera July 19, 2011
Direct offers interoperability among disparate EHR systems and a bridge to statewide HIEs as they prepare to ramp up by next year.
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Todd Park: HHS aims to be NOAA

 Molly Merrill June 09, 2011
At same event, HHS Secretary Sebelius says the power of the Health Data Initiative is "tapping into American ingenuity."
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Despite incentives, cost is a barrier to small provider EHR use

 Mary Mosquera June 02, 2011
Price, practice size, and lack of technical resources remain obstacles for small healthcare providers in adopting EHRs and participating in the meaningful use incentive program.
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A Direct route to more pertinent patient information

 John Morrissey June 02, 2011
A doctor in Rhode Island, per his daily routine, has just updated and closed a patient's chart in the practice's electronic health record. As he punches up the next record or heads to the exam room, a routine of another sort is underway between the EHR and the state's health information exchange database.
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Panel weighs delaying stage 2 of meaningful use

 Mary Mosquera May 04, 2011
Delay would be at expense of early adopters, but vendors and providers say there is not enough time to develop and deploy EHR updates.
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Patient data access will kickstart PCAST exchange vision

Mary Mosquera April 18, 2011
Health IT advisory panel suggests exchange uses to engage patients in stage 2 of meaningful use that also push toward PCAST universal exchange language.
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A Time of intense execution

 Patty Enrado April 18, 2011
Now that Farzad Mostashari, MD, has stepped into his role as the National Coordinator for Health IT, many in the industry who don't know him or his past work very well should take comfort in something he said at his first meeting as ONC head: "I know from personal experience implementing electronic health records in small doctors' offices in some underserved communities in New York and health centers and hospital outpatient partners just how incredibly hard this work."
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Panel wrangles with timing, ACO effect on meaningful use

 Mary Mosquera April 14, 2011
Health IT Policy Committee considers delaying by one year new EHR functions to deal with time constraints in meaningful use stage 2.
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ONC: Time to 'double down' on putting patients first

 Mary Mosquera April 13, 2011
New ONC head Mostashari outlines the emphasis on patient communications, assisting providers to adopt EHRs, and keeping an eye on the anticipated wave of health IT innovations.
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Direct pilots: E-mail piece easy, integration takes work

 Mary Mosquera April 01, 2011
With a number of Direct Project pilots popping up around the country, healthcare providers who want to have the capability to perform simple exchanges can take heart that this is one technology that is straightforward to use, even if it isn't quite "plug-and-play."
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Insurers pay New York physicians $1.5 million to become 'medical homes'

 Mary Mosquera March 09, 2011
Six health plans in a large scale project demonstrating patient-centered medical homes in New York's Hudson Valley paid incentives of $1.5 million to 236 primary care physicians in 11 practices. These physician practices affect nearly half a million patients in the region.
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Time to feel the impact of IT at ground level

 John Morrissey March 01, 2011
The locus of health IT efforts has been in Washington so long—in Congress, at Health & Human Services, in long meetings of policy and standards committees— that you might not notice the scene subtly shifting to the nation's physician offices and hospital corridors and out to the surrounding communities.
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HHS funds seven state insurance exchange IT designs

 Mary Mosquera February 16, 2011
HHS awards $241 million in early innovator grants to seven states and a group of states to develop IT models for health insurance exchanges.
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Survey: Docs, patients on the same page when it comes to IT priorities

GHIT Staff January 31, 2011
Increasing electronic access to patient records, support for meaningful use incentives and privacy safeguards are health IT priorities that doctors and patients can agree on, Markle says.
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NYC takes a bite out of referrals

Bob Violino January 01, 2011
An electronic referral system has helped New York City's biggest public hospital system cut walk-ins by 20 percent and more than double the speed of referrals.
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One-to-one-to-many

 Mary Mosquera November 01, 2010
Health IT policymakers are relying on federal healthcare agencies to pilot new standards and uses of the emerging Nationwide Health Information Network.
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One-to-one-to-many

 Mary Mosquera October 28, 2010
Federal health IT policymakers are relying on agencies to help troubleshoot new standards and uses of an emerging nationwide health information network.
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