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WASHINGTON – In a broad State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama hailed the information age in America and the need for the federal government to support IT innovation. more

 Executive Summary -- November 2010   The passing of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) has resulted in a continued increase in the number of Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) across the United States. The Pennsylvania eHealth Initiative (PAeHI) remains active in its role "to bring together Pennsylvania’s health care and business stakeholders to develop a vision and a plan for the future of health information technology (HIT) and the secure exchange of health information in Pennsylvania". How to maintain financial sustainability is a major question raised by community, regional, and state-level HIEs. more

December 17, 2010 By Kenneth Adler, MD, Rick Harper, PhD, Robert Hoyt, MD A patient shows up at the emergency room unconscious and unable to give a history. Another patient arrives at his primary care physician's office 3 days after an emergency room visit, and the primary doctor has received no information. A specialist sees a third patient for a consultation and receives none of the critical records needed to help her make the consultation efficient and effective. These scenarios and many others like them, unfortunately, are all too commonplace. The consequences of incomplete information at the point-of-care can be inconvenience, inefficiency, increased costs, and adverse, even life-threatening outcomes for patients. more

Health IT: The Changes Ahead Presenter: Todd Rowland, MD 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

Federal agencies have awarded three “buckets of money” to help you and Indiana advance technologically Health information technology (HIT) holds promise to better coordinate patient care, reduce costs, improve quality – and daily life for physician practices. That’s the idea behind development of a variety of federal HIT grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, and Indiana is seeing a flow of those dollars. To date three rounds of grant funding have sent funds to our state. more

The AMA has provided these answers to basic questions about the health information technology (HIT) incentives available under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act or stimulus bill.* Keep reading ISMA Reports for details about qualifying for this federal funding. more

The New England Journal of Medicine David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. March 25, 2009 The recently enacted stimulus bill — the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) — touches almost every aspect ... more

Health Care IT Firms Rushing to Grab Share of Stimulus Indianapolis Business Journal J.K. Wall -  jwall@ibj.com Sat. March 07 - 2009... more

AMA News By Chris Silva, AMNews staff March 16, 2009 Physicians Can Earn Tens of Thousands in IT Incentives, But They Must Act Quickly to Achieve the Biggest Benefit and Avoid Penalties.... more