Morning Headlines 2/4/15
athenahealth Collaborates with BIDMC on Inpatient Cloud-based EHR
Athenahealth acquires Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s home grown inpatient EHR. Athena will scrap the code, but will use the system as a model to build its own inpatient EHR over the coming months.
Fiscal Year 2016 Budget of the US Government
ONC requests $92 million in the 2016 federal budget, of which $5 million will be used to establish a Health IT Safety Center.
HHS and ONC invest $28 Million in Health Information Exchange Grants
HHS announces $28 million in new grant money available to support the adoption of HIEs.
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