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24 March 2014

Meaningful use, UK

In the first of a new series for EHI, Mike Jones explains how Northern Devon Healthcare NHS Trust is thinking
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28 May 2013

Half of US docs claim meaningful use

US Department of Health and Human Services secretary Kathleen Sebelius has claimed a “tipping point” has been reached in America’s
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13 May 2013

Big EPR Survey backs ‘meaningful use’

EHI readers have backed payments for the ‘meaningful use’ of electronic patient records, as part of a ‘roadmap’ for their
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11 March 2013

Reflections from the Big Easy

EHI editor, Jon Hoeksma, reflects on the similarities between US health IT trends and what is happening in the UK,
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22 February 2011

A third of US hospitals now have EHRs

A third of US hospitals say they have begun to install an electronic health record.
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21 February 2011

HIMSS11: health IT’s moment has come

HIMSS11, the giant US health IT conference and exhibition, opened today with a record 31,000 attendees and 1,000 exhibitors gathered
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4 March 2010

‘Stop knocking progress’ on EMRs

Coverage from HIMSS10 Dave Garrets, the head of HIMSS Analytics, has said that reports criticising the lack progress being made
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1 March 2010

HIMSS opens with gold rush in prospect

An 25,000-strong army of healthcare IT professionals has descended on Atlanta for the HIMSS 2010 conference and exhibition expecting a
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5 January 2010

US publishes ‘meaningful use’ criteria

The first draft criteria for the federal funding of electronic health records as part of the US’ recovery plans have been published. The
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30 November 2009

Hospital IT ‘does not cut costs’

Computerising hospitals delivers a small improvement in quality but does not cut costs, according to a study published in the
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