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Technology and the Accountable Care Organization

Health care delivery has evolved in the past few years along with the demand of new medical technologies and more sophisticated treatment options. However, lapses in quality as well as skyrocketing costs have resulted to [+]

National Webinar: Meaningful Use and its implications for your practice featuring Dr. David Blumenthal

Two weeks ago, ACP, in partnership with Cientis Technologies, launched AmericanEHR Partners (www.AmericanEHR.com) - a new online community dedicated to helping health professionals adopt health information technology.  The interest has been great with visits to the [+]

Meaningful Use of Health IT: David Blumenthal Opening Statement

David Blumenthal M.D., National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, delivers his opening statement at a Ways and Means Health Subcommittee hearing on Efforts to Promote the Adoption & [+]

How will cloud computing help the expansion of health information technology under the HITECH Act?

Massoud Alibakhsh, CEO of Nuesoft Technologies, explains how the HITECH Act of 2009 is expanding cloud computing through EHR adoption and other means. [+]

What Happens After Meaningful Use?

Meaningful use definition specifies three types of requirements - use of EHR (Electronic health record) technology (such as electronic prescribing), electronic exchange of information and health information to improve quality care, and [+]

Timetables Of Meaningful Use

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) enacted in February 2009 authorized the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid to pay physicians, who demonstrate the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHR), [+]

New Recovery Act Investments in Health IT

Vice President Biden and Health and Human Services Secretary Sebelius announce the selection of 15 communities to serve as pilot communities for eventual wide-scale use of new health information technology. [+]

EMR Lecture with Dr. James King

Former TMA board chariman and American Academy of Family Physicians President, Dr. James King gives a lecture at the High Tech Conference titled, "Making Dollar$ and $ense of ARRA" to colleagues in Selmer Tennessee. In [+]

Protecting confidentiality with technology

Riley, M. http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Health information may be compromised in multiple ways, including from internal and external sources. There may be accidental disclosures when protected information is overheard by another party; there may be internal disclosures [+]

10 Questions to make sure to ask an EHR vendor">10 Questions to make sure to ask an EHR vendor

The road to a new EHR can be daunting.  With dozens of EHR vendors and hundreds of options your clinical practice can be pulled in all sorts of directions on this decision.  Many solutions may [+]

Meaningful use, a 2 minute estimation

Everyone in Health Care NEEDS their part of the ARRA stimulus. However, what exactly does "Meaningful Use" HIT mean? The actual exact details won't be published until mid-summer (because the government hasn't decided what it means yet [+]