The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is creating "NHIN University," a program designed to engage healthcare IT stakeholders in efforts to develop the Nationwide Health Information Network.
The Federal Communications Commission has announced $145 million in grants to 16 telehealth projects for engineering, constructing and implementing regional high-speed broadband networks in 17 states.
Susan DeVore, president and CEO of the Premier healthcare alliance, says the biggest challenge to healthcare delivery is the fragmentation of the system and the clinical information gaps that result.
The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives has filed its comments regarding the EHR Incentive Program with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The comments focus on what the Ann Arbor, Mich.-based organization calls "critical concerns" regarding the proposed regulations that were unveiled on Dec. 30, 2009.
Senate Finance Committee ranking member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday sent letters questioning the FDA's authority to oversee and regulate health IT.
The White House wants to create a new government-wide task force to strengthen coordination of healthcare IT among federal agencies that play roles in carrying out the administration's plans for a digital healthcare system.
While attempting to revive languishing health-care legislation, the White House proposed Monday that a tax on high-end health plans be delayed for all workers, not just those in unions, and suggested new taxes to help make up for the lost revenue.
The Veterans Affairs Department is looking for a vendor to modify its computerized patient record system so it can track more physician actions. VA seeks the system to track and report on physicians' actions after receiving critical diagnostic test alerts.
A recent survey put out by the American Society of Health Informatics Managers claims that between 50,000 and 200,000 new jobs will be created in health IT by the year 2015.
Members of a federal health IT advisory group have proposed to relax the number of measures that would be required for healthcare providers to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record systems.
