ARRA Stimulus and CCHIT

We need to embrace gravity as a stimulus and engage with it if we want our bodies to age well, writes CLAIRE O'CONNELL (Source: The Irish Times - Health)

Wind power, one of the largest segments of the renewable energy market, will experience a sharp decline in growth this year. The slowdown comes as a surprise because the stimulus bill included $43 billion for energy projects -- a big boost for renewable forms of electricity.» E-Mail This     » Add to Del.icio.us (Source: NPR Health and Science)

Conclusion This study has used objective measures of pain in a small sample of infants and used careful blinding and randomisation to reduce bias. There are a few limitations due to the study size, but the conclusions are likely to challenge the currently held belief that sugar is an effective treatment for the pain of minor procedures in infants. The limitations mentioned by the researchers were: The small sample size of 44 infants analysed, which could mean that this study was not powered to observe subtle effects that sucrose might have on the brain processes used for pain. A measure of pain in infants is necessarily indirect (because they cannot describe the sensation), and so even though the electrophysiological measures reported in this study are more objective it is not clear ...

The government will distribute nearly $17 million for patient-centered outcomes research that is supported by health information technology and data systems, Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Wednesday. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Cincinnati and Detroit are the two final pilot communities selected under the new Beacon Community Program that is using health information technology to help tackle leading health problems in communities across the country. Between them they will receive $30 million in government money to help in their work. ONC chief David Blumenthal, delivered the news Thursday at the Henry Ford Health Center in Detroit , while HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was in Cincinnati to make the announcement at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

The Census Bureau reported Thursday that federal "domestic spending increased a record 16 percent, to $3.2 trillion, in 2009 ... largely because of a boost in aid to the unemployed and the huge economic stimulus package enacted to rescue the sinking economy," The Washington Post reports. "Overall, the largest chunk of federal spending -- about 46 percent of the $3.2 trillion -- went to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, entitlement programs that are projected to swell as the population ages. ... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

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Read about the latest advances in 'smart' – stimulus-responsive – drug carriers, which can improve targeted delivery of cancer drugs to tumors while minimizing harmful effects in healthy tissues Nanomedicine (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)

The Office of the National Coordinator for Information Technology, or ONC, has announced that two initial companies have been authorized to test and certify electronic health record, or EHR, systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria that were issued by HHS earlier this year. (Source: AAFP Practice Management)

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Weno Healthcare Inc. has applied to become a temporary electronic health record certification body and, if accepted, plans to shake up the competition. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

Maine's HealthInfoNet, the statewide health information exchange, has selected Santa Monica, Calif.-based Orion Health as its primary technology provider to help the HIE expand. HealthInfoNet today involves six healthcare organizations and many of their affiliated hospitals and physician practices that annually care for more than half of Maine's residents. (Source: Healthcare IT News)

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Sage North America today announced that its Sage Healthcare Division has released Sage Intergy version 6.10 and the new Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition. This Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition features the components required for physicians to be eligible for federal electronic health records (EHR) incentives, a key provision of the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA).  (Source: Healthcare IT News Press Releases)

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago, Ill. and the Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), Austin, Texas, were named by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the first technology review bodies that have been authorized to test and certify electronic health record (EHR) systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria that were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)

Weno Healthcare has submitted its application to become an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) authorized certification and testing body (ATCB) in an effort to increase overall adoption for certified EHR technology. (Source: Cardiovascular Business News)

Weno Healthcare has submitted its application to become an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) authorized certification and testing body (ATCB) in an effort to increase overall adoption for certified EHR technology. (Source: CMIO.net: The News Weekly for Health IT Executives)

Weno Healthcare has submitted its application to become an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) authorized certification and testing body (ATCB) in an effort to increase overall adoption for certified EHR technology. (Source: Health Imaging News)

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Weno Healthcare has submitted its application to become an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) authorized certification and testing body (ATCB) in an effort to increase overall adoption for certified EHR technology. (Source: Health Imaging News)

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT), Chicago, Ill. and the Drummond Group Inc. (DGI), Austin, Texas, were named today by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the first technology review bodies that have been authorized to test and certify electronic health record (EHR) systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria that were issued by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year. (Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center)

Products already certified by CCHIT, however, will not automatically qualify for incentive payments. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group are the first to pass government muster as authorized to test and certify electronic health record systems to qualify for meaningful use incentives under the stimulus package. There are more to come. (Source: Healthcare IT News)