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The Republican Main Street Partnership, a moderate Republican group, said it will support a bill being written by House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) that would encourage physicians to adopt electronic medical records, Congress Daily reports.  Johnson is expected to introduce her legislation in mid- to late September, according to a Johnson spokesperson. The bill, which is expected to have Democratic backing, comes on the heels of Johnson's July 27 subcommittee hearing on medical errors.
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CA Healthcare Association - iHealth Beat |
Aug. 22, 2005 |
Republican Main Street Partnership |
Mary Mosquera
GCN Staff
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Health IT czar urges quick standards development - The national health
IT czar says development of interoperability standards will spark demand
for electronic health records (EHRs). But health care providers have been
slow to adopt EHRs and other health IT because they are unable to share
data with other providers. |
Government Computer News |
Aug. 19, 2005 |
Health IT Czar Urges Quick Standards Development |
Caroline Broder, Senior Editor |
The Certification Commission
for Healthcare Information Technology on Sept. 7 plans
to publish a series of use cases to illustrate how its certification requirements
for ambulatory electronic health records would be used in various healthcare
scenarios. The group also will release its testing procedures that it
plans to use in a December 2005 pilot test of EHRs. The group on Sept.
8th and 9th will host calls open to the public to explain its use cases
and certification process and will open a period for public comment that
ends Oct. 7. |
HIMSS Healthcare I.T. News |
Aug. 15, 2005 |
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology |
| Caroline Broder, Senior Editor |
Federal Advisory Group Moves Closer to Healthcare IT Recommendations-
The government should eliminate regulations that prevent hospitals from
sharing information technology tools with physicians, give healthcare entities
incentives to adopt IT and encourage adoption of standards to help disparate
information systems communicate, a federal advisory body said Wednesday.
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HIMSS Healthcare I.T. News |
Aug. 11, 2005 |
Federal Advisory Group Moves Closer to Healthcare IT Recommendations |
| Bob Brewin |
Report
Highlights High Costs of Ignoring Health Tech - The U.S. health care industry
has neglected widely used systems engineering tools and technologies,
and that neglect has contributed to the nearly 100,000 preventable deaths
a year, according to a new report from the National Academy of
Engineering and the Institute of Medicine. The
health care industry’s collective inattention to systems engineering
has a mind-boggling cost of a half-trillion dollars a year due to inefficiency.
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Government Health IT |
Jul. 22, 2005 |
Report Highlights High Costs of Ignorning Health Tech |
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National Health IT Coordinator Dr. David Brailer on Thursday
told a Senate subcommittee that health IT legislation introduced by Congress
could impede efforts to modernize the health care system, CongressDaily reports. "We are already under way," Brailer told the Senate Commerce
Technology, Innovation and Competitiveness Subcommittee. "Our concern
is about legislation slowing down this process" (Rovner, CongressDaily,
6/30). Congress so far has proposed 18 pieces of health-IT-related legislation, TechnologyDaily reports (Belopotosky, TechnologyDaily,
6/30)...Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Max Baucus (D-Mont.) introduced
a pay-for-performance bill that would establish a system to allow the HHS
secretary to reward providers for reporting quality data and improving and
maintaining quality (iHealthBeat, 6/30). |
CA Healthcare Association - iHealth Beat |
July 1, 2005 |
National Health IT Coordinator Dr. David Brailer |
