Health Information Technology News

ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS GIVE BETTER HEALTH REPORTS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 (Bernama) — There is a need for Electronic Health Records (EHR) and Health Information Technology (HIT) to be put in place aimed at ensuring that the patients’ demographics and past treatments could be determined which would assist doctors in giving them better healthcare.

NewsWatch: U.S. stocks bounce back, and health care takes lead on S&P (Market Watch)
As Wall Street looks to Capitol Hill for details of government moves to shore up the nation s banking system, health care and information technology usurp the once-mighty financial sector on the S&P 500.

Obama Speech Pushes Green Tech, Health IT (PC Magazine via Yahoo! News)
President Obama talked up his economic recovery plan Tuesday night in an unofficial State of the Union speech that also touched on green initiatives, increased research, and health information technology.

Sebelius: No talks with Obama about health post (AP via Yahoo! News)
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius, mentioned as a top candidate for health secretary, said Sunday she has not talked with President Barack Obama about joining his Cabinet.

Consumer, Health and Family (Mondaq)
Today, the United States Senate passed an economic stimulus bill that includes provisions related to health care information technology (”Health IT”) and reserves over $19 billion to support the adoption of Health IT 1 On January 28, 2009, the United States House of Representatives reserved over $20 billion of its own stimulus bill to support the adoption of Health IT 2 These bills dovetail with …

Health care reform passes House (Deseret Morning News)
Two health care reform bills passed the House Thursday morning with overwhelming support.

New Company Announcement: Encore Health Resources LLC (Centre Daily Times)
Encore Health Resources LLC (Encore) has been formed by healthcare veterans Ivo Nelson and Dana Sellers to provide information technology consulting services to the provider segment of the healthcare market.

CMA Praises Changes In HIT Funding That Will Allow Many California Pediatricians To Participate (Medical News Today)
The California Medical Association applauded congressional leaders today for passing an economic stimulus package that extends Health Information Technology (HIT) funding to many pediatricians who would have been excluded under previous versions of the legislation. The compromise package cleared the House and is expected to pass the Senate later today and be signed by President Obama next week.

Health care funds criticized (The Charlotte Observer)
(By William Douglas, McClatchy Newspapers) The $787 billion economic stimulus legislation includes $19 billion to modernize health care information technology systems, a move that’s intended to lead to the computerization of all Americans’ medical records by 2014. Is that $19 billion intended to create much-needed jobs and fix a health care system that’s choking on paper? Or is it a stealthy …

Harris Corp. enters 10-year contract with Health First (Florida Today)
Some 29 Health First employees will become Harris Corp. workers Friday as the Melbourne technology company takes over Health First s information technology department.