In an open letter, national health IT czar Dr. David Blumenthal is urging the health IT vendor community to help bolster e-health record adoption rates among healthcare providers in underserved, minority communities.
The letter, co-signed by Blumenthal and Dr. Garth Graham, director of the office of minority health, cited a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
NASHVILLE, TN – CCHIT chair Karen Bell says the EHR certification process required for meaningful use is moving steadily in the right direction. “It’s a little bit like the Wild West because things are changing so rapidly,” she said. “But we’re clearly making progress.”
In a keynote speech at the HIMSS Summit of the Southeast in [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on October 20th, 2010 | No Comments »
ORLANDO – Surgeon General Regina M. Benjamin learned a few things in her old job running the Bayou La Batre Rural Health Clinic in Alabama. First, the job didn’t just entail “sewing up the shark bites” – there were plenty of “land sharks” (regulators and red-tape dispensers) to fend off, too. Second, EHR are an [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 12th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Mark Wallin
For many years we have been hearing an increasing amount of information regarding Electronic Health Records (EHR) and related technologies with acronyms such as EMR, PHR, HIE to name a few. More recently, we have been hearing an emphasis on incentives and programs that may be available to physicians that adopt or utilize [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on October 5th, 2010 | No Comments »
