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2006

Shift in Congress Puts Health Care Back on the Table
Washington Post, December 25, 2006
Also in the works are efforts to promote electronic medical records, ease restrictions on the importation of low-cost prescription drugs from Canada, devise a better way of paying doctors under Medicare and improve the subsidized drug coverage for low-income Medicare beneficiaries.

Dodd, Kaiser CIO, resigns
Sacramento Business Journal, November 7, 2006
The resignation follows a widely distributed e-mail from a Kaiser employee critical of cost overruns related to the Oakland-based HMO's electronic medical record system.

UnitedHealth Group to roll out integrated health card
Small Business Times, October 12, 2006
When introduced, the new card will combine the functions of those two cards. It also will allow physicians and other health care providers to immediately gain access to patients’ electronic medical records.

Government Studies How to Push Digital Health Records
Extreme Nano, September 20, 2006
In a survey by Markle, 79 percent of patients said that if they kept their medical records online, they would feel comfortable with their primary doctor accessing information. Only 23 percent felt the same way for their insurance company.

Bush Visit Energies Republicans
Minnesota Public Radio, August 23, 2006
Bush used the event to promote new electronic medical record-keeping and allowing small businesses to form buying pools to reduce their cost of health insurance. He also emphasized the need to protect doctors and hospitals from frivolous lawsuits.

United States: New Stark Law Exception and Anti-Kickback Statute Safe Harbor for E-Prescribing and Electronic Health Record Technology
Mondaq, August 23, 2006
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ("HHS") published final regulations under the Stark Law and the Anti-Kickback Statute concerning the donation of electronic prescribing ("e-prescribing") and electronic health records ("EHR") technology.

US agency pushes use of electronic health records
PC Welt, 2006
The Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology is launching four new "breakthrough projects" designed to help spur the adoption of electronic health records (EHR).

HHS Announces First 20 Electronic Health Record Products to Gain Federal Approval
Kaiser Network, July 19, 2006
HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt said that EHRs will improve health care, decrease medical errors and reduce costs, adding that the adoption of such a system is the "most important thing happening in health care."

Doctors urges to sign up for electronic info system
AZ Star Net, June 13, 2006
This federally funded initiative, known as "Doctor's Office Quality — Information Technology," or simply DOQ-IT, is designed to help small- and medium-size practices adopt electronic health-records systems, or EHRs, that give doctors immediate access to comprehensive, critical information about their patients.

U.S. Bank Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing Gives Medical Groups an Affordable Entry into Electronic
Finanzen, May 18, 2006
Oliver-Allen Technology Leasing offers flexible EHR lease programsthat minimize up-front project costs and allow practices to finance100 percent of the costs associated with a typical EHR project. Inaddition to offering manageable monthly payments, leasing provides acost-effective way to upgrade or replace equipment as needed, makingit easy to keep technology current.

CMS issues new provider enrollment rules
United Press International, April 25, 2006
"By standardizing the information that a health care provider or supplier must use in order to bill Medicare, we will be better able to protect the Medicare program and assure providers and suppliers that they will be paid promptly," said, Timothy Hill, chief financial officer and director of the Office of Financial Management at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). "The new rule will also help bring us even closer to the development of an electronic medical record."

Lawmakers push federal health plan into digital age
Federal Times, March 21, 2006
Legislation introduced in the House this month would require all insurance carriers participating in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program to create electronic health records for each of their members within four years.

Gov. Bredesen Announces Statewide eHealth Coordinating Council
Chattanoogan, January 27, 2006
Since Bredesen’s State of the State address in 2002 where he pledged resources to build Tennessee’s health information infrastructure to both help Tennesseans and be a model for the nation, a portfolio of eHealth initiatives have launched across the state.

HIMSS Urges President Bush to Call on Congress to Pass Electronic Health Records Legislation in the State of the Union Address
PR Newswire, January 26, 2006
"Your focus on EHRs in your 2004 and 2005 State of the Union Addresses sparked private sector interest, innovation, standards and policies," said Lieber and Dr. Middleton. "We commend you for setting an ambitious goal of ensuring that most Americans have an EHR in the next 10 years."

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