The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives, which has a membership of 1,300 CIOs across the country, weighed in last week on its definition of “meaningful use” for healthcare ...

Health Information Technology policy committee recommends a phased-in approach for electronic medical record systems. The United States can develop an electronic health record system that could, ...

> The federal Health IT Policy Committee is expected to release its recommendations for meaningful use of electronic health records on June 16. The recommendations will be the basis for requirements, ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 designated more than $59 billion in funds for the healthcare sector, approximately $19 billion of which will go toward healthcare IT initiatives.

CMS will host a teleconference on the meaningful use requirements of the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs, according to an AHA News Now report. The Aug. 18 ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has updated its meaningful use “Frequently Asked Questions” section with new questions and updated answers. One new question that was recently posted to ...

The following article is written by Sean Benson, cofounder and vice president of consulting with ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The march towards meaningful use (MU) has created a ...

Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the House, weighed in on electronic health records on Monday in an article he co-authored for MDNews.com. Gingrich, and co-author Jeff Kao, who is general manager of ...