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	<title>HealthTechnica &#187; Obama</title>
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		<title>The Role of the Direct Project in Fast-Tracking Health IT Interoperability</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 17:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Rich Elmore and Arien Malec A patient’s health records are no longer confined to a doctor’s office, shelved inside a dusty file cabinet. With the advent of the Nationwide Health Information Network, a framework of standards, services and policies that allow health practitioners to securely exchange health data, medical records digitized to be easily [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You SHALL NOT HAZZZZ Healthcare reform!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 17:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After Judge Roger Vinson declared that the entire health care bill was unconstitutional due to the way the individual mandate was woven into the legislation, I couldn&#8217;t help but think of this pic: Judge Vinson stated the entire law was invalid, which took the ruling even further than the last judge to say the law [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dr. Blumenthal Discusses Registration for EHR Incentive Programs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 16:30:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, discusses the importance of registering for the Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs, administered by the Centers for Medicare &#38; Medicaid Services (CMS). Dr. Blumenthal talks about how the incentive programs are aimed at accelerating the nation&#8217;s adoption of health information technology. He outlines how health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Values, And Pitfalls, of Health Information Exchanges</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 15:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Health information exchange (HIE) is defined as the transmission of healthcare information electronically across organizations within a community. HIE is an integral part of the health information technology (HIT) and enables reliable and secure transfer of healthcare-related data among disparate healthcare information systems. It also facilitates easy access and retrieval of data. The goal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understanding Meaningful Use with Dr. Blumenthal</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:15:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[David Blumenthal, MD, MPP, national coordinator for health information technology, discusses the meaningful use criteria for EHRs and the resources available to help practices implement the technology.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Connections #KSMQ AARP and Health Care Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AARP is one of the nation&#8217;s largest health care advocacy groups.  AARP represented millions of baby boomers in the latest round of health care reform.  In this episode of Health Connections, AARP chief health care reform experts discuss changes we expect to see in 2014 and beyond.]]></description>
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		<title>If you care about health care, you care about September 23rd</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[September 23rd is a critical day for health care reform. This short video from Mary Pat Whaley gives you a 60 second run down off why you should care.]]></description>
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		<title>National Webinar: Meaningful Use and its implications for your practice featuring Dr. David Blumenthal</title>
		<link>http://www.healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/2010/08/02/national-webinar-meaningful-use-and-its-implications-for-your-practice-featuring-dr-david-blumenthal/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=national-webinar-meaningful-use-and-its-implications-for-your-practice-featuring-dr-david-blumenthal</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 14:30:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two weeks ago, ACP, in partnership with Cientis Technologies, launched AmericanEHR Partners (www.AmericanEHR.com) &#8211; a new online community dedicated to helping health professionals adopt health information technology.  The interest has been great with visits to the site continuing to grow extremely well. Next week we have our first national webinar:  &#8221;Meaningful Use and Its Implications For Your Practice,&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How will cloud computing help the expansion of health information technology under the HITECH Act?</title>
		<link>http://www.healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/2010/07/23/how-will-cloud-computing-help-the-expansion-of-health-information-technology-under-the-hitech-act/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=how-will-cloud-computing-help-the-expansion-of-health-information-technology-under-the-hitech-act</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Massoud Alibakhsh, CEO of Nuesoft Technologies, explains how the HITECH Act of 2009 is expanding cloud computing through EHR adoption and other means.]]></description>
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		<title>What Happens After Meaningful Use?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 14:30:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 adequate measures and analyses to prove that quality care is being provided for patients. The meaningful use visions and goals include that, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Timetables Of Meaningful Use</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 May 2010 15:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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), an incentive of up to $44,000, from 2011. The physicians unable to conform to these date lines are expected to face reductions in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 easy things you should look for when picking an EMR</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:30:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Electronic Medical Records (EMR) documents patient’s medical history such as test results, medication and general clinical data in an electronic format and allows easy and rapid access to such information to authorized personnel providing patient care. EMR has brought many benefits to physician’s practice that includes better administrative reforms, reduction in costs and better profits, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mayo Clinic&#8217;s thoughts on the health reform bill</title>
		<link>http://www.healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/2010/03/29/mayo-clinics-thoughts-on-the-health-reform-bill/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=mayo-clinics-thoughts-on-the-health-reform-bill</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 14:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is publicly available from http://letstalk.mayo.edu. Since the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act on March 21, we have received numerous questions about the law’s impact on Mayo Clinic. Details remain unclear, especially because Senate debate continues on a piece of legislation — the Reconciliation Bill – that amends a portion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman on Obamacare</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:34:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlueApoc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman speaks on Fox Business regarding healthcare information technology and healthcare reform.]]></description>
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		<title>Minnesota getting $47 million targeted for health care IT efforts, job training</title>
		<link>http://www.healthtechnica.com/blogsphere/2010/02/16/minnesota-getting-47-million-targeted-for-health-care-it-efforts-job-training/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=minnesota-getting-47-million-targeted-for-health-care-it-efforts-job-training</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:30:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>BlueApoc</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Submitted by reader James 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. &#8220;Health information technology can make our health care [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POLL: Now that the Republicans have 41 votes in the Senate, what happens to Health Care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:43:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican Scott Brown of Massachusetts may have just become the most important Senate member in a very long time. Scott Brown ran on a platform dedicated to killing the current Health Care Reform Legislation that has already passed the US House and US Senate, but has NOT been combined in conference committee. What do you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First thing I hear at Xmas was &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 21:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am sitting at Xmas with all the relatives. The first thing that came up was health care reform. Massive disagreement and disinformation permeate both Republican and Democrat view points. Are you seeing this same thing in your family get togethers?]]></description>
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		<title>Protecting confidentiality with technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MMR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 through curiosity-seekers or those seeking to make a profit or cause harm; externally, data-miners and hackers may compromise confidential health [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Funding for Community Health Technology and Patient Centered Medical Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[President Obama announces that the Recovery Act will provide new funding for Community Health Centers to finance new construction, modernize information technology, and build a medical home model.]]></description>
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		<title>Vice President Biden and U. S. Health Secretary visit Mt. Sinai</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Vice President Joseph Biden hosted a roundtable discussion at Mt. Sinai Hospital, to talk about our nations health care system and the importance of health insurance reform, including health information technology infrastructure and preventative care, with U. S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A rural medical center speaks out on House Bill 3962</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:43:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Austin Medical Center (AMC) is a 99 bed licensed hospital with a multiple specialty associated clinic.  AMC is a rural facility located in a service area of ~45,000 people in southern Minnesota.  Their leadership is keenly aware of House Bill 3962 and has allowed HealthTechnica to publish their thoughts. The following are the thoughts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Healthcare Challenges due to Financial Mechanism Changes</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MMR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Guest Author: Riley, Michelle http://medicalstudentblog.co.uk Due to significant changes in the mechanisms of financing, the entire healthcare system now faces significant challenges. The three most significant challenges are: the ability to service and fund public programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, controlling costs through managed care programs, and addressing the significant amount of under- or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>(Part 2) Health Care Job Market &#8211; HealthTechnica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 14:05:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HealthTechnica experts debate the job market and how it will play out in health care. Part 2.]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care Job Market &#8211; HealthTechnica (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The HealthTechnica experts debate the job market and how it will play out in health care.  Part 1]]></description>
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		<title>(Part2) EARLY discussion on Obama Stimulus for Health IT</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:44:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Continuation:]]></description>
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		<title>EARLY discussion on Obama Stimulus for Health IT (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 19:04:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early discussion taking place right after the signing of the bill:]]></description>
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		<title>President Elect Obama adds some IT to health</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:51:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Shawn Riley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Government Health has a quick article on President Elect Obama&#8217;s thoughts on making the EMR universal: http://www.govhealthit.com/online/news/350702-1.html Talk back on this and give us some comments!]]></description>
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