Cary F. McGovern

The Begin­nings of Records Man­age­ment: 1930–50
Pres­i­dent Franklin D. Roo­sevelt helped cre­ate the need for the records man­age­ment indus­try by dra­mat­i­cally increas­ing the size of the fed­eral gov­ern­ment, first with his New Deal pro­grams and then with the defense bureau­cracy related to World War II. Roo­sevelt rec­og­nized the prob­lems he was cre­at­ing and wanted to use […]

BareMetal Data World 2009 Octo­ber 7, 8, & 9 2009 — Reg­is­tra­tion and Agenda
Early Bird Reg­is­tra­tion has now been extended until close of busi­ness on Fri­day August 14, 2009. Reg­u­lar reg­is­tra­tion will still close Fri­day Sep­tem­ber 4, 2009.
The Con­fer­ence Page can be found on the Web­site at http://www.baremetaldata.com/resources/51.html
Agenda for BareMetal Data World 2009 Gay­lord Opryland […]

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Who really prof­its from dig­i­tal med­ical records?
12:00 AM CDT on Tues­day, July 14, 2009
By DAVE MICHAELS and JASON ROBERSON / The Dal­las Morn­ing News Dave Michaels reported from Wash­ing­ton, and Jason Rober­son from Dal­las.
An unprece­dented effort to com­put­er­ize the nation’s hos­pi­tals and physi­cian offices could be the key to reduc­ing crippling […]

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FEDERAL HITECH ACT
The stim­u­lus pack­age con­tains sev­eral leg­isla­tive and admin­is­tra­tive ini­tia­tives to pro­mote the use of health infor­ma­tion tech­nol­ogy and elec­tronic health records in Medicare and Med­ic­aid. The statute is designed to “assist health care providers to adopt, imple­ment, and effec­tively use cer­ti­fied EHR tech­nol­ogy that allows for the electronic […]