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If health information exchanges are to fulfill their promise to remake healthcare locally, much work remains, obstacles must be overcome. Here are the five most paramount.
HHS has awarded contract to LMI to identify and test practical methods for improving the security of personal health information.
The 113 e-measures will be more easily readable by electronic health record systems for collecting health quality data for meaningful use.
VA and DOD tell GAO that they are advancing their common health IT roadmap and management capabilities for EHR modernization, VLER program.
Brooklyn Health Information Exchange, operational since mid-2009, continues to add new stakeholders and data, gaining momentum and reaching critical mass.
Increasing electronic access to patient records, support for meaningful use incentives and privacy safeguards are health IT priorities that doctors and patients can agree on, Markle says.
President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation.
The Obama team chose to open up the health IT market to accelerate EHR adoption.
CCHIT announces its new EHR certification program for hospitals, which has been successfully piloted at three U.S. medical centers.
