By, Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations.
The funding is allotted under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The grants cosist of:
$900,000 for Alaska;
$2.6 million for Kentucky;
$1.48 million for South Carolina; and
$1.37 million for Wisconsin
According to CMS officials, [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Federal Economic Stimulus Package on February 1st, 2010 | No Comments »
Iowa’s Medicaid program is the first to receive matching federal funds to plan for the implementation of an EHRs incentive program as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Iowa will receive $1.6 million in matching funds.
“While Iowa is the first state [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care on November 27th, 2009 | No Comments »
The bill, introduced by Sen. John Kerry, would make small healthcare practices eligible for federal loans.
By Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
Senator John Kerry introduced a bill designed to help family doctors fund conversion to electronic health records.
Kerry, D-Mass., a senior member of the Finance Committee, introduced the Small Business Health Information Technology Financing Act of 2009 Tuesday. [...]
Filed under: EHR, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care on November 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: EHR, Federal Economic Stimulus Package on September 29th, 2009 | No Comments »