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It's time for the Beacon Communities to shine
The 17 Beacon Communities are funded to the tune of millions of federal dollars--and the healthcare industry as a whole has a huge opportunity to get a significant return on that investment. The
Remote health project eschews 'data overload'
The Western New York Beacon Community (WNY) has a lot going on. The network is one of 17 Beacon Communities funded by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, and it's using that money
Beacon Community: 4 ways to market mobile health efforts
One in 10 Michigan residents have diabetes--in Detroit that number is more than 16 percent and in some zip codes it's even higher than that. The Southeast Michigan Beacon Community (SEMB), one of
Health network hires ONC's community college consortia students for EHR implementation
When Aurora Health Care, Wisconsin's largest non-profit health network, needed to add to its staff in a hurry to implement its electronic health record system, it turned to some of "ONC's kids" for
Meaningful Use incentive payments top $2.5 billion
Federal and state governments have paid providers more than $2.5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
CMS must sustain Meaningful Use momentum
It started as a trickle of providers signing on to become meaningful users of electronic health records, but by the end of the year it was more like a torrent: More than 176,000 eligible
Metadata standards inch closer to MU Stage 2 inclusion
Patient privacy and transparency, and how each relates to information exchange, are on the minds of officials at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, who last Friday asked for public
Blumenthal: Meaningful Use, healthcare reform 'two sides of the same coin'
National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal welcomed providers and health IT vendors alike into the "era of meaningful use" at last week's eHealth Initiative Annual Conference held in
Accenture contract will examine EMR real-world use
Under a new contract, Accenture will be working with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology to develop and manage real-world "use cases" that ONC will use to help in
What can we expect for Stage 2 of Meaningful Use?
Survey data released this month by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) showed promising figures in terms of adoption of electronic health records during the
