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With federal funds, the state’s two Regional Extension Centers (RECs) can help you adopt or improve an Electronic Health Records system. The more

Final Rules to Support Meaningful Use Announced (July 13, 2010) Helpful Resources Table of the Stage 1 Meaningful Use Objectives and Measures The "Meaningful Use" ... more

When health-care providers exchange electronic medical records, costs go down and patient care goes up To understand the potential of shared health records, consider the Bottone family. Almost everyone agrees that health information technology could create more effective and more efficient systems in the medical world but we still face a number of hurdles in terms of widespread adoption. Journal News Editor Laura Landro discusses some of the challenges facing the medical industry as they look to digitize health records. more

Final awards of state health information exchange cooperative agreement program work to build health information exchange infrastructure throughout the states    U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today ... more

Federal stimulus money from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is now targeted to Indiana. Last month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) awarded nearly $1 billion ... more

Funding will pave the way for area providers to receive incentive payments for using electronic systems and exchanging health information electronically to improve health care more

There is no one financial silver bullet to funding a health information exchange (HIE), according to Keith Hepp, vice president of nonprofit HIE HealthBridge who spoke during a Webinar broadcast ... more

Led by BioCrossroads, effort focuses on Indiana's depth, breadth and leadership in HIT, advancing it to the next level INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In an unprecedented collaborative effort, the State of Indiana under Governor Mitch Daniels' leadership, and Indiana's five independent health information exchanges and four state organizations, spearheaded by BioCrossroads, submitted an application today to receive federal stimulus funding for a statewide health information technology (HIT) program. If awarded, several million dollars in funding would be provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's Cooperative Agreement Program (CAP) which will be used to further enhance the quality and reach of the State of Indiana's HIT delivery system. more

The day when your medical information follows you electronically wherever you go just came one day closer to reality. Three Indiana and Ohio organizations today started securely sending clinical test results, ... more