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ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Proposed standards for electronic health records have received enough votes to be adopted so they can go through two years of use and fine-tuning.Resul...
WASHINGTON – The second summit on healthcare information technology in about a year, held Thursday in Washington, continues to underscore the federal government's interest in improving care deli...
DURHAM, N.C. — Ed Hammond, Ph.D., a leading authority on electronic patient records, has joined the Health Data Exchange, Duke University's initiative to establish a national health information netw...
The electronic health record is poised for another boost. URAC, a nonprofit healthcare accreditation organization, may take the EHR under its wings by developing standards for implementation....
WASHINGTON – Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., is at work on a bill that would back President George W. Bush's plan to encourage the use of healthcare information technology. Ther...
Proposed standards for electronic health records have received enough votes to become draft trial standards from a national accrediting organization.Preliminary results of balloting, which ended April...
The American College of Physicians is putting its might behind creating a paperless office for doctors.Last week it released what it called "a discussion paper" titled "The Pap...
WASHINGTON – President George W. Bush continued to demonstrate his commitment to improving the nation's healthcare information technology today, calling for widespread adoption of electronic hea...
ANN ARBOR, Mich. - According to the initial ballot tally, the Health Level Seven Electronic Health Record-System Functional Model Draft Standard for Trial Use (EHR-S DSTU) has passed the voting requir...
The federal government and healthcare think tanks may be pushing doctors to adopt electronic prescribing, but many of them are still resisting — and with good reason, they say....
