The percentage of non-hospital based physicians who have adopted a basic EHR has doubled from 17 percent in 2008 to 34 percent in 2011, according to National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, PhD, who highlighted the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) achievements from this past year in a
HealthITBuzz blog post published Jan. 6.
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) made available a free, online guide developed under contract by RAND, a nonprofit research organization headquartered in Santa Monica, Calif., to assist healthcare organizations with EHR implementation and use.
GE Healthcare has aligned with the regional extension center New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) to increase physician EMR adoption and support meaningful use attainment in the state of New York.
Florida physicians who care for Medicaid participants said they are more likely to apply for incentive payments to adopt EHRs under the Health IT for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009, according to research published in the August issue of Health Affairs.
A collaborative of seven organizations, including the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association and the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society, has proposed changes to clarify and streamline the process of achieving meaningful use objectives.
