This week, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates adopted new policies regarding health IT security breaches, government subsidies for electronic health records and open-source EHR systems, Modern Healthcare reports (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6/17).
The group announced the new guidelines during its annual meeting in Chicago (HealthDay News/Modern Medicine, 6/16).
Security Breaches
The new AMA policy offers guidance [...]
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On Wednesday, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal said the federal government would pay special attention to individual physicians and small group practices as it works to implement the health IT provisions of the federal economic stimulus package, CongressDaily reports.
Blumenthal testified before the House Small Business Regulations and Healthcare Subcommittee along with pediatricians, optometrists [...]
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Bernie Monegain, Editor
EHR adoption and finances remain the top challenges facing medical practices, according to a new survey from the Medical Group Management Association.
For the second year in a row, medical practice professionals sounded off to the MGMA about a variety of challenges faced while safeguarding their practices’ financial solvency.
The 2009 survey “Medical practice today: [...]
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On Thursday, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT hosted a Web briefing on its plans to distribute nearly $600 million in grants intended to help build a national network of health IT training centers, Government Health IT reports.
More than 1,200 interested parties logged in to partake in the 90-minute Web conference.
Grant Program [...]
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Diana Manos, Senior Editor
The Department of Health and Human Services issued new regulations Wednesday requiring healthcare providers, health plans and other entities covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) to notify patients if their electronic health information has been breached.
The regulations are mandated by the Health Information Technology for Economic [...]
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By Don A. Solberg, MD, Kathryn L Houck and Jim Roberts
Successful electronic health record (EHR) adoption not only improves quality of care by making patient information easily accessible, it also provides valuable clinical decision support. In addition, organizations benefit from streamlined operations — enabling physicians to spend less time on charting and documentation, and [...]
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By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is adopting a two-tier system of testing and certifying IT systems.
In a conference call with vendors and developers of health IT systems Thursday, CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt announced the not-for-profit organization’s new testing program, as the group readies itself for [...]
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