Corporate Member News

Interoperability Showcase Demonstrates How Electronic Health Information Can Be Shared Securely, Seamlessly

4/3/2009 - More than 70 clinical information systems from 72 different technology companies and organizations will demonstrate how their products communicate and interact with each other in the Interoperability Showcase at the 2009 Annual Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Conference & Exhibition, April 4 – 8 in Chicago.

Higher Purpose: What Meaningful Use Means To Nurses

8/9/2010 - What does “meaningful use” mean to nurses? The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services released final rules July 13 outlining the criteria hospitals and eligible providers must meet to be considered meaningful users of health information technology in order to receive their share of $27 billion under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s Electronic Health Record Incentive Program over the next 10 years.

In Review: HIMSS Interoperability Showcase HIMSS10 Annual Conference &Exhibition

5/11/2010 - The HIMSS Interoperability Showcases have become the premier model for health IT vendors and organizations to come together to demonstrate standards-based health IT applications in a venue that simulates health information exchange in healthcare settings such as Ambulatory, Hospital/Provider, Emergency, Chronic Care and Public Health.

Government Relations at HIMSS10

2/19/2010 - Government Relations Activities at HIMSS10

H.R.3987

2/11/2010 - H.R. 3987, to amend titles XI and XVIII of the Social Security Act to promote the use of health IT to better coordinate healthcare, was introduced by U.S. Representative Roy Blunt (R-MO) on November 3, 2009 and is co-sponsored by Joe Barton (R-TX), Marsha Blackburn (R-TN), Michael Burgess (R-TX), and Phil Gingrey (R-GA).

Congressional Affairs Year In Review 2009

2/9/2010 - In 2009, during the First Session of the 111th Congress, more progress was made to advance the transformation of patient-centric healthcare using information technology (IT) than in any previous year. Through passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), Congress took significant steps in establishing leadership for national health IT initiatives and providing funding to bolster the electronic exchange of health information.

HITSP Approves New Interoperability Specifications in Line with American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

2/1/2010 - The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) is pleased to announce that it has approved the following specifications at its July 8, 2009, panel meeting in Arlington, Virginia.

NAMCS Survey Released

1/26/2010 - The National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey (NAMCS) conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics is an annual nationally representative survey of patient visits to office-based physicians that collects information on use of EMR/EHR.