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DoD enterprise architecture to serve as the foundation for forthcoming iEHR
The enterprise architecture established by the Military Health System's electronic health record way ahead, will serve as the basis of the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments' integrated electronic health record, known as the iEHR .
Security and privacy issues unaddressed in Stage 2 Meaningful Use proposal garner attention at policy meeting
The Stage 2 Meaningful Use notice of proposed rulemaking (.pdf) the Health and Human Services Department published March 7 addresses many but not all of the health IT policy committee's concerns...
VA to roll out early version of iEHR in 2014
An early version of the VA-DoD integrated electronic health records system should be rolled out in two medical facilities in 2014.
Spotlight: Work underway for AHRQ's health IT toolkit
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality wants to provide healthcare practitioners with a workflow toolkit that will help them determine health IT system requirements, select a vendor, prepare
Spotlight: Busy month for VA EHR appointments
This month has been a busy one so far for appointments in Veterans Affairs Department-related electronic health record positions. Word trickled out that Barclay Butler became head of an joint
CMS releases proposed Stage 2 meaningful use EHR objectives
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released Feb. 23 a proposed rule for the second stage of meaningful use objectives for health care providers in the process of adopting electronic
HIPAA haunts health IT progress
Health data exchange policies associated with the HITECH Act (.pdf) are taking shape, but a Health and Human Services Department official says providers' incomplete implementation of the Health
Big data in health IT requires new definition of 'research,' says federal advisory committee
If medical practices are to take advantage of widespread electronic health records to create a " learning health system " in which patient data is aggregated and analyzed in order to provide better
ONC releases 5-year plan for health IT
The Health and Human Services Department's office of the national coordinator for health information technology has identified five goals that will lead to the transformation of healthcare over the
EHRs result in better care, says study
Diabetics received better care at medical practices with an electronic health record that those reliant on paper, says a study published Aug. 31 in The New England Journal of Medicine. The study, by
