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New Chair, Board Members at HIMSS

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has installed its new chair and vice chair for one-year terms, as well as four new board members.

Medicare Unveils Physician Payment Rule

Medicare is proposing simplified reporting requirements for the Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program and the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative in a proposed rule setting the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule for calendar year 2010.

HIT Policy, Standards Committees to Meet

The HIT Policy Committee will again consider the definition of 'meaningful use' of electronic health records during a public meeting July 16 at the Park Hyatt Washington Hotel in the District of Columbia. The committee is an advisory body to the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.

Community Centers Get I.T. Grant Funds

The Obama Administration has released $851 million in stimulus law grant funding to more than 1,500 community health centers across the nation. The funds are for capital improvements, including information technology.

Report: How to Spend $400 Million

A congressionally created council has released a report with recommendations for how the Department of Health and Human Services should spend $400 million in discretionary spending for comparative effectiveness research. Some of the funds will be used to adopt information technologies that can speed dissemination of best practices information.

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Plan Outlines Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentives

ONC Issues HITECH Plan, Timetables

Taking on the Big Boys

A community hospital system is spending big bucks on I.T. to help it demonstrate quality, value.

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