The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT issued a request for information on the creation of a governance structure for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) back in May. Now, the EHR Association is submitting its response, expressing appreciation that this is an RFI, not a notice of proposed rulemaking.

While almost half of business administrators at hospitals or health systems say they are more than halfway to completing full EHR system deployment, many have doubts about the level of funding their organizations have planned to support it, according to the results of a poll conducted by U.S. audit, tax and advisory services firm KPMG.

A new analysis of federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association found clinics with higher scores as medical homes also had higher per-patient operating costs.

More than 100,000 healthcare providers are using EHRs that meet federal standards and have benefitted from the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, according to CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

HERNDON, Va.As temperatures rose across the nation, so did opinions on health information exchanges (HIEs) in two panel discussions June 21 at the Healthcare IT Connect Summit. During the panels, the overriding consensus among participants is the need to build a use case for HIEs.

A new nationwide association, the Association of Regional Centers for Health IT (ARCH-IT), has been formed for the 62 regional extension centers that provide assistance and guidance for the adoption and use of health IT.

HERNDON, Va. How do you use data and health information infrastructure to enhance the patient-physician relationship? According to Kevin Flanigan, PhD, medical director of MaineCare Services, Maines Medicaid program, if you dont enhance that relationship, whatever infrastructure you impose on a system will not be a permanently integrated component in the decision-making process.

A new report from market researcher Insight Research of Mountain Lakes, N.J., shows healthcare growing faster than any other industry in the U.S. between now and 2017expanding 6.4 percent per yearwith spending on telecommunications and IT outpacing even that, growing at a compound annual growth rate of 9.7 percent over the next five years. If the prediction comes to pass, wireless networking, digital healthcare and related businesses will rise from an already substantial $9.1 billion segment to $14.4 billion.