HRSA Holds Webinar on EHRs and Smoking Cessation
HRSA Webinar on Using an EHR and Quality Data for Smoking Cessation The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health…
Read MoreHealth Innovation
PatientsLikeMe Seeks Participation in New Open Research Exchange Platform
Names Advisory Board forResearch Platform on Patient-Centered Health Outcome Measures Last week PatientsLikeMe announced an open call for medical researchers to be among the first…
EHRs and Saving Money
COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A persistent theme in EHR adoption is…
ONC Releases Direct Implementation Guide to Aid in Interoperability
Common Practices for HISPs, Accrediting Bodies Established for Security and Interoperability Last week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released the…
WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative Launched
New WEDI ICD-10 Initiative Looks at Reducing Time, Costs Associated with Compliance The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in…
Four Years Later: Impact of the HITECH Act on EHR Implementations
New Report Looks At 2013 EHR Buying Trends By David Fried, Software Advice In a press release last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human…
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks One of the first questions pundits ask any time the U.S. gets embroiled in an international conflict…
HIPAA Compliant Emails: Myths and Facts
By Mike Semel Understand What Constitutes HIPAA Compliant E-mail Every day I get questions about HIPAA compliant e-mail, and many days I see or hear…
HHS Reports Providers’ Use of Health IT Doubles Since 2012
More than half of America’s doctors have adopted electronic health records HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than half of all doctors and…