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Information Governance: The Foundation for Effective e-Health

The Complexity behind Quality Measures

The CIO’s Guide to Implementing EHRs in a HTECH Era

Survey on Trends in Securing Patient Information

Health IT Standards & Testing Proceduresr

VA, DOD agree on single lifetime personal identifier

VA teams up with Indiana HIE for data exchange

32" x 48" Meaningful Use Poster

EHNAC Accredits its First HIE

CSC’s Meaningful Use Community

CMS EMR Incentive Funding Reaches $73 Million

CMS will start incentive payments in May 2011

HHS allots $51M for health insurance exchange

Report: HIE Landscape Growing, Becoming More Sustainable

CEO EHR Guide from CHIM and AHA

Meaningful Use Final Rule Summary
•Objectives & Measures
•Standards & Certification
• Initial Set of Standards

CCHIT announces three new certification programs for EHRs

HIMSS names three more Davies Award finalists

HHS to post research on effective treatments online

Halamka’s Analysis of the Final Standards Rule

ARRA Revisited Supplement

Most Wired Hospitals' for 2010 named

Vendors abound, but serious options are lacking in HIE market – KLAS Report

Study: E-Mail Improves Outcomes

Federal panel okays privacy recommendations

Official Web Site for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs

Minding the public’s health IT - 6/23/2010

Using EMR Data to Conduct Clinical Research, Improve Quality

CPOE Tester Shows High Error Rates

How Health Care Reform Must Bend the Cost Curve

PwC's 2010 Behind the Numbers

Jump Starting your EHR Planning Process

Attributing the impact of EHR on patient safety

Complete list of Regional Extension Centers grants

2009 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports

Health Affairs April - 2010
• Value of IT at the VA - Abstract
• Measuring Meaningful Use - abstract
• Making the Most of Federal HIT Regulations - abstract

Industry Surveys Health Leaders 2010

FINAL Meaningful Use Objectives and Measures: 2011-2013-2015

Stories of Success (from HIMSS and ASQ) with 16 Peer-reviewed case studies of organizations using IT to improve safety, quality, effectiveness and efficiency

Cross-references table between 2011 Meaningful Use, HITSP and national standards.

JHIM, Winter Issue 2010-, Kimberly Klein, CPHIMS wrote a leading article entitled, "So Much to Do, So Little Time"

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