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Congress passes health IT bill, rejects another

On Friday, the Senate passed a bill that would promote the use of healthcare information technology to help prevent medical errors and reduce costs, according to Congressional Quarterly Today.

HHS awards contracts for national health IT development

HSS has awarded four contracts totaling $18.6 million to different groups that will focus on developing prototype Nationwide Health Information Network (NHIN) architectures which should help in making communication of personal electronic health records be

Pay-for-performance works, says CMS

Healthcare provider pay-for-performance can increase clinical quality and save lives, according to the first year of official data from a national project involving more than 260 hospitals.

Feds ready with patient satisfaction survey

The federal government is ready to conduct a national survey of patient perspectives of hospital care.

Sen. Coleman introduces rural health IT bill

Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.) introduced a bill earlier this week that would authorize grants to develop rural health IT, Technology Daily reported.

Brailer: Health IT progress must not be blocked by regulation

New laws and regulations should not be allowed to strangle the development of the nation's health information technology infrastructure, according to HHS officials.

New bill seeks universal privacy standards, to ease IT equipment donation

Last week the House Ways and Means Health Subcommittee Chair Nancy Johnson (R-Conn.) and Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Nathan Deal (R-Ga.) put forward a bill (HR 4157) which would grant the HHS the ability to develop new national medical privacy stan

Organizations petition for EHR privacy

As has been the case all year, a good deal of health IT-related legislation is being proposed and debated on Capitol Hill right now.

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