News about Healthcare IT Solutions & Services Industry

Friday, Nov 4, 2011
According to a notice published on November 3 2011 in the Federal Register, National Health Information Technology Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, M.D., has delayed implementation of the permanent ...Read More
Thursday, Nov 3, 2011
Hospitals and eligible professionals will continue to report clinical quality measures for electronic health records meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do this year. The...Read More
Friday, Oct 14, 2011
National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, a federal advisory body, feels that the Office of the National Coordinator's plan to require use of EHR metadata in Stage 2 of the meaningful...Read More
Friday, Jul 15, 2011
Four more states launched Medicaid electronic-health record incentive programs  for providers this month. A total of 21 states have launched such payment programs since the beginning of the...Read More
Thursday, Jul 7, 2011
Hospitals, critical access hospitals and eligible professionals may continue to report clinical quality measures for meaningful use via attestation in 2012, just as they must do in 2011, according...Read More
Thursday, Jul 7, 2011
Farzad Mostashari, M.D., national coordinator for health information technology, has announced his support for delaying Stage 2 of electronic health records meaningful use by one year to 2014 for...Read More
Monday, Aug 30, 2010
HHS today named CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology), and the Drummond Group, Austin, Texas, as organizations qualified to test and certify electronic health-record...Read More
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
Thursday, Feb 18, 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