Blog News // Grant // February 14, 2013 // no comments
Obama Administration Making Strides in Health Care IT, but Still Work to Be Done
Huffington Post by Joel White
February 14, 2013
In today’s political environment, President Obama and health care are synonymous with the Affordable Care Act. But there are many more aspects to President Obama’s health care agenda that are often drowned out by partisan rhetoric.
News Press Center // Grant // November 28, 2012 // no comments
Change laws to make better use of health care tech
The Marietta Daily Journal by Sharon Cooper
November 28, 2012
Despite thought-provoking and seemingly endless debates, never ending pundit analysis and constant pontification by the candidates in the recent election cycle, Americans are still left with many unanswered questions and concerns about a variety of important issues.
Blog News // admin // September 26, 2012 // no comments
Medical professionals need technology
Concord Monitor
By Daniel Stonecipher, CEO and President, IMMERSIVx
September 26, 2012
Imagine this scenario: While driving from New Hampshire to Massachusetts, you are stopped at the border and told that your New Hampshire license is not valid.
News Press Center // admin // May 25, 2012 // no comments
On 5/7, the coalition issued a press release on its Meaningful Use comment letter that was picked up in 8 publications including Yahoo!, Boston Globe, Kansas City Star and The Miami Herald. The press release was viewed over a 1,000 times online.
On 5/8, the Health IT Now Coalition was quoted in the BNA piece “HIMMS Calls for Revised Stage 2 Timeline, Supports CMS Patient Engagement Criteria.
News Press Center // admin // December 10, 2009 // no comments
Americans are familiar with electronic records: We check our bank statements online, order prescriptions online, pay our bills online. Most Americans are well aware of the convenience and security of electronic records, yet there is not a single, comprehensive, interoperable electronic medical records system.
News // Grant // March 25, 2009 // no comments
A new report that will be published in this week’s New England Journal of Medicine found that just 1.5% of U.S. acute care hospitals have a comprehensive electronic health record system in place, while 7.6% of acute care hospitals are using a basic EHR system, Reuters reports.
News Press Center // admin // March 16, 2009 // no comments
On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed into law the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The law provides $22.8 billion in funding incentives through the Department of Health and Human Services for the adoption, use, maintenance, training, education and research for health information technology (HIT).
News Press Center // admin // March 3, 2009 // no comments
The Wall Street Journal
by Jacob Goldstein
News Press Center // admin // February 10, 2009 // no comments
So it looks as if the nation’s taxpayers are going to spend about $20 billion to accelerate the use of computerized medical records. In his press conference Monday night, President Obama went out of his way to explain why that money belonged in the economic stimulus package.