“Nuance Communications, Inc. recently engaged more than 17,000 physicians in a survey to learn about physicians’ hopes and concerns with respect to healthcare information technology, as well as to gauge their understanding of developing healthcare government policy. Today, Nuance is announcing results from its survey, which represent responses from nearly 1,000 physicians.
Over the last several months, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have been working closely with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT) and the Department of Healthcare and Human Services (HHS) to define the incentive programs outlined in the HITECH Act. HHS is expected to publicly release a draft definition of electronic health record (EHR) “meaningful use” by the end of December 2009.”
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Advance, 31 December 2009
