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December 18, 2009

Standards panel on pins and needles over meaningful use
Members of the Health IT Standards Committee, a federal advisory panel, said they are anxious to see the official definition of 'meaningful use' which is expected later this month.
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November 24, 2009

HHS releases $80 million to train HIT workforce

The Department of Health and Human Services will release $80 million in grants to help develop and strengthen the health information technology workforce.
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November 02, 2009

HIPAA violators could face fines of up to $1.5M
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has issued an interim final rule to strengthen enforcement and increase penalties for violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, known as HIPAA.
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September 21, 2009

Privacy experts debate patient consent
Privacy experts hold a variety of views on how much control patients should be able to have over their electronic health records.
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September 18, 2009

HIT policy committee holds privacy hearing today
The HIT Policy Committee is holding a hearing today in Washington, D.C. to discuss the privacy aspects of healthcare IT found in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
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September 16, 2009

Federal panel approves EHR security, privacy standards
The Health IT Standards Committee Tuesday endorsed a set of security and privacy standards for electronic health record systems that it said would get progressively tougher without holding back wider health information sharing.
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August 20, 2009

SNOMED CT will be required by 2015 for bonuses under economic recovery law
The federal advisory panel on health IT standards has approved refined recommendations on how providers may electronically record a physician's observations to qualify for federal recovery bonuses.
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August 14, 2009

Federal panel's meaningful use, certification guidance sparks criticism
The Health IT Policy Committee, a federal advisory panel, adopted additional recommendations from its Meaningful Use Workgroup on Friday that had physicians, activists, vendors and others warning that the government was moving too fast.
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May 26, 2009

HITECH: Wedding IT to care delivery and payment reform

Experts say the federal HITECH Act should be "wedded to a strong commitment to provider payment reform" to push transformation in the nation's healthcare system.
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May 21, 2009

Hospital IT budgets feel the squeeze
The recession has forced more than half the nation’s hospitals to either scale back information technology projects already in progress or postpone them, according to a new survey from the American Hospital Association.
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May 08, 2009

Blumenthal names new HIT panel members, first meetings next week
David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health IT, announced Friday the final members of two panels established under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) – one dealing with policy and another with standards.
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February 02, 2009

ICD-10 deadline extended two years to 2013
The Department of Health and Human Services has extended the deadline for converting from the ICD-9 to ICD-10 disease and billing coding set by two years – from Oct. 1, 2011 to Oct. 1, 2013.
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January 29, 2009

House passes stimulus package with $30 billion in net health IT bonuses
The House passed an $819 billion economic stimulus bill Wednesday night that includes $20 billion for healthcare IT and policy changes that are expected to result in $30 billion in net bonuses for providers who adopt and use certified healthcare IT products over the next 10 years.
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January 08, 2009

Obama: EHRs for Americans by 2014
All Americans will have electronic medical records in five years if Congress passes President-Elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, outlined in a Jan. 8 speech.
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January 05, 2009

Children's National Medical Center to connect pediatricians, schools
Children's National Medical Center in the nation's capital is poised to install software to automate clinical and business records for its Children's IQ Network.
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October 21, 2009

Physicians encounter barriers in exchanging lab results electronically
The HIT Policy Advisory Committee's information exchange workgroup learned Tuesday just how difficult it's going to be for doctors to exchange electronic lab results to qualify for federal "meaningful use" bonuses.
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January 15, 2009

HHS issues final ICD-10 code sets, extends deadline by two years

The Department of Health and Human Services on Thursday released the long-awaited ICD-10 code set and set a new compliance date of Oct. 1, 2013.
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January 09, 2009

AHIC reveals new name, meets with Obama team

The American Health Information Community, more recently known as AHIC Successor Inc. and colloquially as AHIC 2.0, will now be called the National eHealth Collaborative, or NeHC.
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April 12, 2010

Online platform could boost visibility, access to health IT jobs
The U.S. Department of Labor is accepting applications for $13.2 million in grant funds under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create and implement an online platform that will boost access to healthcare career opportunities, including occupations such as medical records and health information technicians.
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April 01, 2010

GAO finds RAC project falling short
The Medicare recovery audit contracting (RAC) project has some accountability, integrity and reliability shortcomings, according to a new report issued by the Government Accountability Office (GAO).
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