tci Medicare Compliance & Reimbursement - 2007 Issue 5

HEALTH IT: Coming Soon To A Hospital Near You--A New Nationwide Health Information Network

New report on the health IT initiative details advances, future plans.The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued a report on Jan. 23 promising that federal health-care delivery systems will comply with newly adopted federal "Interoperability Specifications" by December 2007. This announcement marks a major step toward establishing the Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN), which President Bush mandated in 2004.Only 10 percent of physician's offices currently use electronic health records (EHRs), HHS-sponsored research by George Washington University reveals. While that relative paucity of EHRs might seem discouraging, many health care providers have already committed to abide...

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