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EHR Connection is your connection to all the information you need to make your electronic health record efforts successful. You'll get tips each week on topics such as vendor selection, evaluating return on investment, getting buy-in from physicians and much more.

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Issue 12, December 13, 2004

• Massachusetts-wide EHR system possible within five years

  Massachusetts may be the first in the nation to implement a statewide electronic medical record...

• New Mexico collaborative receives funding

  The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality granted $1.5 million to fund the New Mexico Health...

• AHIMA pushes Secretary Thompson to restore ONCHIT funding

  The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) in a letter urged outgoing HHS...

• AHIMA calls for PHR work group volunteers

  The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) is organizing a work group of 20...

Issue 11, December 6, 2004

• Regional network interests government

  The government is interested in the Spokane, WA-based Inland Northwest Health Services (INHS...

• CMS requests physician quality field testing

  The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services(CMS) wants physicians to consider becoming...

• Brailer rallies IT vendor community

  David Brailer, MD, PhD, national coordinator of health information technology (IT), met with...

• CCHIT names workgroups

  To assist in development of an ambulatory care electronic medical records certification program...

Issue 10, November 30, 2004

• New York Times checks national HIT efforts

  The New York Times examined healthcare industry efforts to transition from paper charts to...

• Online intervention helps rural, chronically ill women

  Chronically ill women living in rural areas can benefit from online intervention that helps them...

• IPA offers patients electronic access

  Brown & Toland Medical Group-an independent practice association (IPA) based in San Francisco...

Issue 9, November 22, 2004

• Kaiser Permanente adds web-based wellness tools for members

  Kaiser Permanente has added a series of Web-based wellness tools for members, including online...

• Cerner purchase increases physician technology

  Kansas City, Mo.-based Cerner Corp. will purchase the medical division of VitalWorks Inc. in...

Issue 8, November 15, 2004

• Vendors launch EHR association

  More than 20 EHR vendors formed the Health Information Management Systems Society (HIMSS) EHR...

• Yale receives EHR grant

  The Agency for Healthcare Quality and Research awarded Yale University $1.2 million in grant money...

• VA launches online personal health records

  The Veterans Affairs Department launched its personal health record on the My HealtheVet Web site...

Issue 7, November 8, 2004

• EHR, HIT credentials available in January

  Health IT Certification announced two new categories of certification for healthcare professionals...

• HIT race in CA off to a quick start

  Sutter Health will spend $154 million to implement EHRs in its network of 5,000 physicians, 27...

• EHR recommendations will be released within a year

  The Physicians' Electronic Health Record Coalition (PEHRC) plans to release EHR recommendations...

Issue 6, November 1, 2004

• Operation EHR in Hawaii

  The Quality Healthcare Alliance, a group of business people and physicians in Hawaii, plans to...

• Bush, Kerry will push HIT

  President George W. Bush and Democratic presidential nominee Sen. John Kerry (Mass.) both say, if...

• Most executives to adopt HIT soon, says survey

  Despite cost cited as the biggest hurdle to EHR adoption in healthcare facilities, 71% of surveyed...

• Report: Payers should give docs money to get on board with IT

  Payers should provide incentives of about $12,000-$24,000 per full time physician per year to...

Issue 5, October 26, 2004 - VIEW THE FULL ISSUE

• Government to issue HIT proposals

  The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) plans to request industry suggestions in order to...

• HHS to hold NHII hearings

  The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics, an advisory body to the Department of Health...

• BCBS-MA will pilot statewide EHR system

  Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Massachusetts will spend approximately $50 million on an...

Issue 4, October 18, 2004

• Indiana information exchange ready for use

  The Indiana Health Information Exchange is up and running for general use and now connects five...

• HHS awards grant money for HIT projects

  The Department of Health and Human Services awarded $139 million in grants and contracts to promote...

• Vendor news: Cerner, Universata announce electronic exchanges

  Cerner Corp., an EHR provider, announced a ten-year, $25 million plan to connect all children with...

Issue 3, October 11, 2004

• Senator Frist appoints HIT members

  Senate majority leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.) appointed the first two members of the Commission on...

• Brailer to meet with vendors to talk IT plan

  David Brailer, MD, PhD, national coordinator for health information technology, will today, October...

• FDA releases clinical trials guidance draft

  The FDA released draft clinical trials guidance for comment about creating and maintaining...

Issue 2, October 5, 2004

• White paper names EHR challenges

  A new Capgemini white paper names several core challenges to widespread implementation of...

• MRI sponsors EHR roadshow

  The Medical Records Institute (MRI) will sponsor a series of low-cost, one-day educational...

• Members can track their health online with BCBS’s BluePrint program

  Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota members will be able to assess and track their health...

Issue 1, September 27, 2004

• Oregon hospitals awarded one-time sum for HIT infrastructure

  The Department of Health and Human Services awarded the Central and Eastern Oregon Hospital Network...

• Defense Department to install EHR

  Unisys Corp. of Blue Bell, Pa. secured a four-year contract potentially worth $132 million to...

• EHR adoption in danger of stalling

  Manhattan Research, LLC, a healthcare marketing and information firm, completed a study finding...

• Docs paid to use EHR

  Bridges to Excellence, a coalition of eight large national companies is sponsoring the Physician...

• Florida Healthcare System Sues MedQuist

  Florida's Memorial Healthcare System filed a lawsuit against MedQuist, Inc., a medical...