In this episode of EHR Matters, Brie Wolf discusses:
$220 million in grants for HIT
Security issues of Google Health
MMR Information Systems’ support of The Latino Coalition

Topics Include: CVS/Caremark and Allscripts Partnership New Ingenix Program NAMCS Results

Todays Topics

1. Nuance releases Dragon Dictation Application iPhone
2. CCHIT Announces Proposed ARRA Incentive Requirements
3. Cielo MedSolutions has announced a new partnership with DrFirst
4. e-Prescribing Solution Comply with 2009 Regulatory Requirements

Today’s Topics Include:

1. Indiana University receives $1.3 million grant
2. AAFP 2009 EHR User Satisfaction Survey Released
3. Pharmaceutical Strategies Group released survey results on proposed healthcare reform legislation

Lindsay Pine discusses good news for health IT research supporters, details about The American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, and other announcements.

Todays Topics

1. Senator John Kerry pushes to accelerate adoption of electronic health records
2. VeriChip acquires Steel Vault, combined company will be PostiveID.

Topics

1. U.S States are taking strides to invest in Heath IT Development
2. Florida offering personal health records for Medicaid clients
3. The New York eHealth Collaborative recently received $35 million in state funding for improving  health care quality

Topics

1. GE Reporting cases of H1N1 and Seasonal Flu to CDC Every 24 Hours.
2. Praxis Version 5 unveiled
3. Thomson Reuters Healthcare spending report

Lindsay Pine talks about e-Prescribing and Health care information technology.

Two important and interrelated events have occurred this week that are likely to shape the emr/ehr (electronic medical record/ electronic health record) industry for decades to come. They address the critically important issues of meaningful use and certification. Three documents were released by the health it policy committee on the subject of meaningful use. To view these documents, visit www.healthit.hhs.gov and search for “2011 objectives.” And for the first time, these documents answer more questions than they ask!

New Maryland law requires private insurers to provide financial incentives to physicians. ONC to provide personal health record education or ‘PHR’ education. Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act creates jobs

Topics Include:

Allscripts™ EHR Stimulus Bus is hitting the road to explain to physicians why the ‘Time is NOW’ to adopt an EMR/EHR (electronic medical record/ electronic health record).
Newly CCHIT® Certified EMR/EHR (electronic medical record/ electronic health record) products.
‘Meaningful Use’ is now online- www.MeaningfulUse.org.

Topics Include:

VISTA has been made available to hospitals.
“Meaningful Use” still undefined.
Clinical Laboratory Management has formed an agreement with Medlink International, Inc.

Topics:

1. Prime Clinical Systems joins the American College of Physicians’ EHR (electronic health record) Partners Program.
2. Significant organizational changes must be made in order to successfully implement an EMR/EHR (electronic medical record/ electronic health record).
3. Doctors Administrative Solutions partnered with iMedica Corporation.