http://www.nhinwatch.com NHINWatch.com Top Stories en-us 03/10/2010 01:50:34 http://www.govhealthit.com/newsitem.aspx?nid=73261 Aneesh Chopra, the White House chief technology officer, wants to highlight examples of healthcare IT driving meaningful use. He pointed out that such examples have been around for a number of years. 03/10/2010 12:00:00 http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/03/08/vadod-expand-electronic-health-information-pilot/ The Veterans Affairs and Dept. of Defense will expand its joint Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record by partnering with providers in Southeast Virginia. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2010/03/08/daily14.html California state officials named Cal eConnect as the new nonprofit organization that will oversee the build out of the statewide HIE. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://biomedme.com/general/hl7-version-2-5-1-implementation-guide-for-electronic-laboratory-reporting_7274.html Interoperability and Standards organization HL7 published the Version 2.5.1 Implementation Guide for Electronic Laboratory Reporting to Public Health. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://www.prweb.com/releases/corepoint-health/interface-engine/prweb3702094.htm Anne Arundel Medical Center implemented an interface engine to connect its facilities with its community referring physicians to enable patient data sharing. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/quest-diagnostics-surescripts-create-labprescription-exchange Quest Diagnostics, the Madison, N.J.-based provider of clinical laboratory services, and Surescripts, of Alexandria, Va. and St. Paul, Minn., which operates the country's largest electronic prescribing network, will collaborate on an integrated service meant to make lab and pharmacy data more easily accessible to doctors and clinicians. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/military-health-system-develops-ehr-white-house The Military Health System has set up a version of its AHLTA electronic health record system for use in the White House. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/onc-issues-rough-draft-2010-hit-strategic-framework The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued an initial draft of its health IT strategic framework on Tuesday, March 9. 03/09/2010 12:00:00 http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/consumers-weigh-top-10-meaningful-use-arguments?page=0,0 A Washington-based advocacy group has collected consumer and employer perspectives on the top 10 arguments concerning meaningful use. 03/08/2010 12:00:00 http://www.healthcaretechnologyonline.com/article.mvc/Meaningful-Use-And-The-CIO-0001 Healthcare CIOs will need to expand their roles to accommodate the meaningful use criterion of sharing patient data outside the four walls of their enterprises, according to editor-in-chief Ken Congdon of Healthcare Technology Online. 03/08/2010 12:00:00