A Week in Review, July 11

EMR by the Numbers – Video Infographic (GE Healthcare)



Delays Force Feds To Propose EHR Reporting Changes

[Information Week] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it plans to allow eligible professionals to attest in 2012 that they have used their electronic health records to collect data on clinical quality measures as part of the CMS criteria for "Meaningful Use" of EHRs. Read full story.


Personal Health Records to Thrive Despite the Demise of Google Health: Report

[eWeek] Despite the exit of Google from the personal health record market, the consumer version of electronic health records may have a future as part of an overall health care IT strategy, according to a report by research firm Frost & Sullivan. Read full story.


EHR Adoption Will Drive Health Care IT Stocks Through 2013

[TWST] Health care IT companies stand to benefit from the current move toward stage one meaningful use implementation of electronic health records by hospitals and physician offices through 2013, says Jamie Stockton, First Vice President at Morgan Keegan & Co., Inc. Read full story.