ONCHIT Interim Final Rule Overview

HITECH Grants are Awarded

This month HHS awarded almost $1 billion centering around three different grant areas with money coming from the ARRA. The HITECH Act mandated initiatives to…



CMS NPRM Overview

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). It has taken the recommendations from the HIT Policy…




Recovery Room 2/7/09

Comments on both the ONC IFR and the CMS NPRM are starting to come in. For the most part, the NPRM comments have been from individuals…


January HIT Meetings

The HIT Policy Committee and its workgroups met this month. The Meaningful Use (MU) workgroup met twice, the NHIN, Planning, Privacy, and HIE met once….