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Would Romney kill meaningful use?

 Erin McCann October 29, 2012
With his repeated vows to repeal the PPACA, a President Romney might be more cheerleader than funder for health IT, including the meaningful use program, which some experts said could become an attractive target for cuts because there is money promised but not yet paid.
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Is the presidential election healthcare's own perfect storm for EHRs?

Lee Barrett November 02, 2012
ENHAC executive director Lee Barrett explains what's at stake for certified EHRs, the economy, HITECH funding and patient care on Election day.
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State action needed to guarantee ACA protections, report says

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org February 04, 2013
The Commonwealth Fund says that 39 states are "potentially limiting" their ability to enforce key provisions of the health reform law.
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Recognizing voices in the trickiest terrain: The battlefield

 Peter Buxbaum June 02, 2011
It's not here yet, but the United States military has plans to perfect technology that would enable combat medics to dictate treatment notes for casualties on the battlefield – and have those end up as structured data and narrative information in fighters' electronic medical records.
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Walgreens to implement system-wide EHR

 Jeff Rowe August 24, 2012
Greenway Medical Technologies announced that drug store giant Walgreens is ramping up implementation of Greenway’s EHR throughout the Walgreens chain.
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Indian Health Service first federal agency with certified EHR

 Mary Mosquera April 19, 2011
The IHS Resource and Patient Management System passed the tests required for certification as a complete electronic health record for office-based and inpatient settings.
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Perspective: California's statewide HIE on right track, part 2

 Patty Enrado December 14, 2012
NHINWatch Editor Patty Enrado looks at the ways that California's health information exchange has found a proper footing, though it has not been easy.
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CDC urges increased prevention, surveillance of superbugs

 Anthony Brino March 06, 2013
The CDC says a sub-group of potentially deadly antibiotic resistant bacteria are on the rise in U.S. hospitals, and it is urging providers and local health agencies to focus on limiting local contamination to thwart their spread.
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Why you need to have a serious discussion with healthcare vendors now

 Carl Natale January 31, 2013
This seems to be a good time to be worried. Your vendors may not be ready for the Oct. 1, 2014, ICD-10 deadline.
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Gingrich foreshadows future healthcare efforts

 Tom Sullivan May 03, 2012
Expressing that he did not communicate some of his healthcare plans very well, Newt Gingrich, during his farewell speech, touches on how he intends to keep working to better healthcare.
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Can you offset ICD-10 costs with competing HIT projects?

 Tom Sullivan September 19, 2011
Some industry experts are claiming that much of the implementation costs for ICD-10 are already being covered within competing health IT projects – meaningful use, most notably.
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VA open source group names board of health IT experts

Mary Mosquera March 07, 2012
OSEHRA taps Halamka among IT heavy hitters for board of directors to guide open source work on VA's VistA innovations and VA-DOD iEHR.
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As genetic privacy rules take effect, security still a concern

 Anthony Brino March 04, 2013
As genetic privacy regulations take effect as part of HIPAA's final rule and as genetic information grows, there are still security gaps to fill.
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HIMSS report from the NCSL Fall Forum

 Thomas S. Keefe, MA, FHIMSS December 14, 2012
Thomas Keefe recounts the National Conference of State Legislatures, which contained sessions on state HIE, Medicaid and HIX, military health, and partisan gridlock.
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Nursing informatics education growing gradually more robust

 Anthony Brino October 26, 2012
With EHR literacy becoming more and more essential for nurses, informatics is increasingly becoming part of community college and university nursing curriculums, and new EHR education software is sprouting up.
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Leapfrog's second round of safety ratings vastly different from first

 Kaiser Health News www.kaiserhealthnews.org November 28, 2012
More than 100 hospitals that were graded "C" in the first report moved up to an "A" in the second, while others received an "F."
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How the campaigns cast a shadow on HIX, Medicaid — and why they're now poised for forefront

 Tom Sullivan November 14, 2012
Election uncertainty made holding off on a health insurance exchange or Medicaid expansion appealing to conservative Governors. And while many are still resisting, experts in the trenches believe that is on the verge of changing now that President Obama has been reelected.
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Kansas HIE board to dissolve and cede regulatory authority to state

 Anthony Brino September 19, 2012
Citing cost as a major problem, the public-private Kansas Health Information Exchange, Inc. has voted to transfer operations to the state's health department. What happens to the remainder of KHIE's federal grant remains to be seen.
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Q&A: How the S.C. Tea Parties took on the GOP over HIX - and won

 Tom Sullivan January 12, 2012
Karen Martin heads up the Spartanburg, S.C., Tea Party chapter. She is undaunted by the prospect of duking it out with the state's Republicans, the current presidential candidates or President Obama.
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Obama reelection doesn't alter complexity of EHR adoption

 Mary Mosquera November 08, 2012
The real revolution in healthcare is not so much in the ACA as health IT, some experts say, and the difficulties associated with implementing and meaningfully using EHRs will not get any easier just because President Obama will be in the White House for a second term.
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