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Minnesota getting $47 million targeted for health care IT efforts, job training

Posted by BlueApoc in Tuesday, February 16th 2010   
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Administration officials today announced that Minnesota will get at least $47 million of the nearly $1 billion in stimulus funding meant to boost the use of health information technology and train workers for jobs in health care, information technology, and other high-growth sectors.
“Health information technology can make our health care system more [...]

Minnesota Critical Access Hospital Highlighted in Healthcare IT News for Work Towards Meaningful Use

Posted by Shawn Riley in Wednesday, February 10th 2010   
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Kanabec Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mora, Minnesota, was highlighted in the February 3 edition of Healthcare IT News for becoming the first critical access hospital to achieve the HIMSS Analytics Stage 6 designation in September 2009.  Kanabec Hospital is upgrading its Meditech EHR system to a CCHIT-accredited version [...]

POLL: What is your medical center’s largest obstacle to EHR adoption?

Posted by BlueApoc in Wednesday, November 18th 2009   
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An Overview of the Meaningful Use Criteria

Posted by BlueApoc in Monday, November 16th 2009   
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An overview of the first draft of the meaningful use criteria that was published in June 2009 by the Meaningful Use Workgroup of the Health Information Technology Policy Committee.

Meaningful Use Requirements Draft for 2011 – Quick List

Posted by Shawn Riley in Wednesday, June 17th 2009   
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Straight from the “Meaningful Use” Draft from the Health IT Policy Committee
2011 Objectives Goal is to electronically capture in coded format and to report health information and to use that information to track key clinical conditions.  These are the specific items that have been listed:

Use CPOE for all order types including medications [OP, IP]
Implement drug-drug, [...]

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