The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) issued two funding announcements offering a total of up to $150.7 million to support further development of the health systems-based and patient-powered data networks that comprise PCORnet, the National Patient-Centered Clinical Research Network.
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) formalized its partnership agreement with KLAS Enterprises, an independent researcher of healthcare technology vendors, products and services for the provider market.
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thought on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of December.
By Anne Ju – The creation of a degree program designed to connect health care professionals and technologists was announced Dec. 4 at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – October.
Thanks for reading us this year and joining us on our look back through our 12 Days of Christmas Posts.
Today we conclude our 12 Days of Christmas posts with warm wishes to all this holiday season. And here is our holiday list we put together hoping you might find a few of these under the tree. Here’s to a great 2015.
Health spending continued to grow at a slow rate last year the Office of the Actuary (OACT) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) reported. In 2013, health spending grew at 3.6 percent and total national health expenditures in the United States reached $2.9 trillion, or $9,255 per person.
Day 11 of our 12 Days of Christmas Posts has us following these Pipers bearing gifts of tips for our successful implementation and use of health IT. From mobile devices to the cloud, from EHRs to secure messaging take another look at these tips we have discussed this year.