HITECH Act

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• HHS Announces Additional $38 Million in Grant Funding to Support Health IT Workforce Development

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  As the adoption of EHRs and other health IT surges, the need for a strong health IT workforce also grows. In response to this need, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently announced two additional grant programs to ...
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• Telehealth: An Emerging Field in Health IT

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  Telehealth is an emerging field that links patients and physicians across the country and beyond via video and health information technology. The telecommunications giant AT&T is investing heavily in this growing “telehealth” industry.For the past year, AT&T scientists have focused on the home health ...
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• New Program to Advance Health IT Research

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  On Friday, Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, announced a new program to encourage innovation in health IT.Through the HITECH Act, $60 million will fund projects for the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program to support health IT research.  Each ...
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• The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

  
  News — Authority: 125
  We waited years for the federal government to do more than talk--and occasionally sponsor a pilot or demonstration program--about health IT. Annually from 2004 through 2008, various members of Congress would talk about how the country needs electronic health records and such, praise a new-found spirit of ...
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• Looking Back: 2009 Forecast Assessment

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 457
  A common practice among analyst firms such as Chilmark Research is to make annual predictions of what is in store for the coming year.  Chilmark will be making its own predictions for 2010 in the next couple of weeks.  Unfortunately, what most analyst firms do not do is reflect on their previous predictions and ...
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• Federal EHR Incentive Program: Does it Offer a Foundation for Success?

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  “A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.”   ~David BrinkleyWith the goal for every American to have an Electronic Health Record (EHR) by the year 2014, the Federal government is throwing many ‘bricks’ at physicians. It will be interesting to see if ...
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• Dangerous Definitions: Hospitals Urge Officials to Better Define Terms for EHR Incentive Payments

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  As the battle in defining the term ‘meaningful use’ continues, another war on words has come to light. The American Hospital Association is reporting that a group of 43 hospitals and health systems have collectively sent a letter to Federal officials, urging them to better define certain terms under ARRA and the ...
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• Healthcare Data Breaches Slow To Surface

  
  Information Security Resources — Authority: 476
  By Doug Pollack , Chief Marketing Officer for ID Experts Since the HITECH Act data breach notification provisions became effective this past September 23, 2009, I’d recently become curious about the number and nature of data breaches that would start to appear on the website at the Department of Health and ...
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• Text Paging Health Information

  
  Dr. Wes — Authority: 545
  I saw this in a recent nursing note: Urine noted to be bloody without clots. Text message sent to 2290 (trauma pager) about hematuria. Patient denies any pain at this time. No doubt patient identification or their room number, was sent to identify the patient (Im not sure which). I suppose a record of the physician ...
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• ONC Reaches Out with Health IT Buzz

  
  Chilmark Research — Authority: 457
  Yesterday, Dr. Blumenthal, head of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) who is tasked with the roll-out (setting policy) for all that HIT stimulus funding under the HITECH Act, launched his own Blog: Health IT Buzz .  With over 20 comments so far, this Blog has generated a ready following.  Now the question ...
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• New Study Finds Health Disparities Exist with EHR Adoption

  
  EMR Blog — Authority: 120
  According to a recent study published by Health Affairs, hospitals in which racial and ethnic disparities exist are less likely than other hospitals to have adopted electronic health records (EHRs). Researchers surveyed 2,368 hospitals about their use of electronic systems for 24 functions. The hospitals that served ...
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• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 145
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
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• HIPAA violations get more expensive

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 430
  The feds recently published new regs that add some teeth to HIPAA’s health information privacy rules. The Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health (HITECH) Act significantly increases the penalties the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) can level against employers and health care ...
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