The first major distribution of HITECH Act funds occurred a couple of weeks ago when HHS awarded nearly $1 billion for HIT initiatives including $386 million to 40 states and territories to help establish public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This represents the lion’s share of the original $564 million allocated for Statewide HIE development under [...]
Posts Tagged ‘GE Healthcare’
The Great Land Grab of 2010 or the Play for State HIEs
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, Axolotl, GE Healthcare, HHS, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, InterSystems, Medicity on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
HIMSS – PHR Platforms MIA
Posted in EMR, health portals, Microsoft, PHR, PHS, tagged AHIP, Cerner, Eclipsys, EMR, Epic, GE Healthcare, Google, HIMSS, Microsoft, PHR, Revolution Health, Siemens on February 18, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Received an email this weekend from the organizers of the big healthcare IT conference, HIMSS, which will be held next week in Orlando. This is the BIG EVENT, where virtually all present and future players in the HIT market come to pontificate on HIT’s future (e.g., both Google’s and Revolution Health’s CEOs will be giving [...]
