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Senate passes health IT bill
Frist-Clinton-Enzi-Kennedy measure would encourage health IT adoption, mandate health care quality reporting and support executive branch efforts already under way.
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HHS to give Gulf states a shot of health IT
The department will spend about $3.7 million to encourage the use of electronic health records in areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.
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EHR certification will be put to the test
Health IT commission will test its certification process for e-health record software products in December, with actual certification set for March.
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Report: Clinical IT for hospitals is growth industry
Spending on health care information technology will grow about 11 percent a year over the next five years.
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CMS finalizes e-prescribing rules
The standard is expected to accelerate the adoption of e-prescribing systems.
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Commission recommends patient ID standard
The congressionally created Commission on Systemic Interoperability, a federal advisory body, recommended in its final report that the government "develop a national standard for determining patient authentication and identity."
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Bill would protect patient privacy
Legislation calls for a single set of national rules to protect the privacy of patients whose information is exchanged over a national health information network.
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Commission recommends patient ID standard
The Commission on Systemic Interoperability issued a report that calls for health information standards but doesn’t offer specifics.
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Don’t overlook research needs, organization says
The research community does not want to be forgotten as the national health information network is built.
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VA health IT gets new chief
Craig Luigart named to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs’ health IT programs and services.
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Report: Build antifraud measures into health IT
A national network for exchanging digital health info can reduce health care fraud, a panel of experts reported yesterday.
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CDC funds informatics for public health
Two grants totaling $8.3 million will support research projects to increase the use of information technology.
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Are consumers missing from the health IT picture?
One critic describes the national drive as an effort to sell consumers on the benefits of health IT but not an effort to engage them in its development.
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HHS plans annual health IT report card
George Washington University and others will assess the progress the nation is making toward adopting health information technology.
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HHS ‘community’ gets to work
Personal health records, telemonitoring and biosurveillance top the agenda of the American Health Information Community.
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HHS picks three for health IT effort
Nonprofit organizations will tackle privacy, security and interoperability problems associated with the use of technology.
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Nevada docs get nearly free e-prescribing software
The deal among a county medical society, the state's largest health plan and a medical records software company aims to provide the software to all the doctors in the state.
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New rules will ease health IT adoption
One rule sets forth initial standards for e-prescribing and another makes it easier for hospitals to donate equipment to cash-strapped physicians.
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VHA to consolidate vets’ health data
The initiative requires the agency to standardize data that has been entered in text form in the past, often with misspellings and nonstandard abbreviations.
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Bill would give feds e-health records
A second forthcoming bill would set into law the government's national health IT coordinator and set milestones for federal agencies’ work to advance health IT.
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