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Medicare HIT Incentives for the Community Oncology Practices

THE WOODLANDS, Texas, June 23 /PRNewswire/ --

    WHO:        Community oncologists, practice administrators, executive
                directors, nurses and other community oncology staff

    WHAT:       Informative Webinar focusing on Medicare Health Information
                Technology (HIT) stimulus:
             -- A status report of standards for qualified electronic health
                records (EHR)
             -- A status report on meaningful use requirements as defined by
                the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
                Technology (ONCHIT) at the Secretariat of Health & Human
                Services (HHS)
             -- Setting standards
             -- Which standards apply to oncology-specific EHRs

    WHEN:       2 p.m. EDT, Friday, July 10, 2009

    SPEAKERS:   Matt Brow, vice president, Government Relations & Public
                Policy, US Oncology
                Cindy Chavez, vice president, iKnowMed, US Oncology

    Register:   www.opspharmacist.com/HITStimulus

    Contact:    (866) 216-5053 or visit www.usoncology.com.

    WHY:        With the signing of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act
                (ARRA, a.k.a. the stimulus package), allocating approximately
                $20 billion towards electronic health record (EHR) adoption,
                physicians who demonstrate meaningful use of certified EHRs
                could be eligible for up to $44,000 in incentives over five
                years. This informative Webinar will help to educate
                physicians on how this stimulus can affect health care
                information technology plans for community-based oncology
                practices.

About iKnowMed(TM)

Designed in 1996, iKnowMed is a web-based oncology-s
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