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Official Says DOD Might Select Derivative of VistA EHR System

Frank Kendall -- Department of Defense undersecretary for acquisition, technology and logistics -- has offered more details about DOD's possible selection of a commercial electronic health record system. Kendall led a 30-day review of options and says the department might select a derivative of VistA, the system used by the Department of Veterans Affairs. FierceGovernmentIT.

Amid Growth, Little Known About Effect of mHealth on Health

A new study published in the Journal of Medical Internet Research finds that while mobile health technologies have grown and become more complex over the past 10 years, little research has been done to test their effect on health outcomes. FierceMobileHealthcare.

Calif. Health System Live Tweets Photos, Videos of Brain Surgery

The University of California-Los Angeles Health System used Twitter to post videos and photos of a brain pacemaker surgery performed Thursday morning. The health system says that the goal of tweeting the surgery was to call attention to the use of brain pacemakers. Los Angeles Times.

Health Care Industry Falls Behind Schedule in Preparing for Transition to ICD-10

George Arges of the American Hospital Association, Jim Daley of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Kathy DeVault of the American Health Information Management Association and Jeanne Gilreath of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association spoke to iHealthBeat about the health care industry's lack of progress in transitioning to ICD-10 code sets.

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As of March, How Many Health Providers Had Received Meaningful Use Incentive Payments?

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As of March, 160,890 eligible professionals had received Medicare meaningful use incentive payments, 83,765 eligible professionals had received Medicaid meaningful use incentive payments and 3,858 eligible hospitals had received meaningful use incentive payments from Medicare, Medicaid or both programs, according to recent data from CMS.

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