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Clinics Collaborate on EHR Deployment

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Telepsychiatry in the Emergency Room

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February 08, 2010 - LATEST NEWS

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Blumenthal Discusses EHR Adoption, 'Meaningful Use'

At a conference last week, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal predicted widespread use of electronic health records within the next decade. Blumenthal said that the federal government’s proposed "meaningful use" rules for EHRs aim to "stretch" health care providers but not "break" them. Healthcare IT News, Government Health IT.

Dems Praise Budget Proposals To Track Care Quality, Fraud

Last week, House Democrats praised a proposal in President Obama's budget plan that would allocate $110 million to modernize CMS' data collection system and link quality of care to payments. Another proposal would allocate $250 million to combat health care fraud. NextGov

Report: 45 Federal Employee Health Plans Offer Health IT Tools

A new report released by the Office of Personnel Management lists 45 health plans in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program that offer personal health records and online tools for accessing health care cost and quality information. NextGov, Federal News Radio

Open-Source Health IT Proponents Weigh In on Proposed 'Meaningful Use' Requirements

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Nancy Anthracite of WorldVistA, Edmund Billings of Medsphere Systems and Kevin Toppenberg, a physician and proponent of open-source health IT spoke with iHealthBeat  about the recently released "meaningful use" rules.

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Thirty-two percent of health IT professionals surveyed said their health care organization has had a patient safety or health care quality issue that directly resulted from having an electronic system, while 10% said their clients have reported patient safety or health care quality issues that were a direct result of having an electronic system.

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