Health IT Business News Wrap-up – November 4, 2012
This Week’s Health IT Business News The week that brought devastation across the Eastern seaboard, and particularly to New York and New Jersey, impacted every…
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HIT Policy Meaningful Use Workgroup Tackles Stage 3 Objectives
First Draft of Stage 3 Objectives and Measures The EHR Incentive programs are structured for eligible professionals and hospitals to meet specific objective measures using…
New Research on Impact of Health IT on Ambulatory Workflows
AHRQ to examine health IT, practice workflow redesign Erin McCann, Contributing Editor Government HealthIT A new project by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality…
Lab Orders and HIEs
Certification Requirements Needed to Transmit Lab Orders Ken Willett CEO/CTO of Ignis Systems Corporation A recent posting on Michigan Health Connect indicates that while this state-wide HIE…
CCHIT to Test EHR and HIE Interoperability
CCHIT Q&A on Interoperability and Stage 2 Our attendance at MGMA12 gave us an opportunity to meet up with many of our colleagues in the…
ECRI Looks at Best Practices for Reducing Risk, Improving Patient Safety
Assessing Patient Safety The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient care. The…
HIE Best Practices: Preparing for Health Information Exchange
Storing Data within Health IT Systems Kyle S. Murphy, Senior Editor EHRintelligence.com .. Health information exchange is both a network enabling the exchange of health information…
ONC Challenge on Cancer Care
Video Challenge for Health IT and Cancer Care In September 2009 President Obama outlined and initiated his Strategy for American Innovation. He called on agencies…
EHR Implementation Resources on HealthIT.gov
NLC’s EHR Implementation Lifecycle If you have’t visited HealthIT.gov yet or recently, you are not “putting the I in health IT” as they would say….