News about Healthcare IT Solutions & Services Industry

Saturday, May 8, 2010
The Health IT Policy Committee endorsed comments on a plan by the Office of the National Coordinator to offer permanent certification of electronic health record systems, including a provision to...Read More
Saturday, Apr 10, 2010
The federal Health IT Policy Committee has recommended that health IT vendors use labels to clarify that their EHR Software is certified to satisfy first-stage requirements for meaningful use in...Read More
Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
Surescripts, The Nation's E-Prescription Network, today announced that it has lowered the cost of e-prescribing services used millions of times each day by physicians, pharmacists and payers...Read More
Monday, Feb 15, 2010
Members of a federal health IT advisory group last week proposed to relax the number of measures that will be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate " meaningful use " of electronic health...Read More
Sunday, Jan 24, 2010
According to the 94,700-member American Academy of Family Physicians, while it "supports the goals" behind the proposed regulations, it believes that the regulations-as proposed-impose hurdles that...Read More
Tuesday, Jan 12, 2010
A government survey indicates there was an 18.7% increase in the use of electronic health record software in physician offices to 41.5% in 2008 from 34% in 2007, but preliminary results for 2009...Read More
Monday, Jan 11, 2010
Eighty-five percent of healthcare providers believe their ambulatory electronic medical record software will enable them to meet the 2011 meaningful use deadlines being considered by the federal...Read More
Wednesday, Dec 30, 2009
HHS issued two sets of much-anticipated federal regulations that significantly further the government's healthcare information technology adoption agenda. The first set of regulations lists the "...Read More
Monday, Dec 28, 2009
Believe it or not, physicians really do support the idea of EMRs . In one study of Massachusetts doctors, published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, 86 percent said...Read More
Monday, Dec 28, 2009
There is a push going on for push messaging, a likely first step in rolling out a proposed national health information network in time for healthcare organizations to use electronic health record ...Read More