There’s a great discussion going on on The Healthcare IT Guy’s blog: Innovation in healthcare IT is dead (hopefully only temporarily). Read BOTH the essay by Shahid Shah and the comments. Tags: HIMSS, HITECH
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* = highly recommended Descriptive Summaries and Documents *Dissecting the Meaningful Use Proposed Rule PowerPoint eHealth Initiative Policy Webinar; January 8, 2010 *What You Need to Know About the Meaningful Use Proposed Rule, Standards and Implementation Specification, and Interim Final Rule Certification Criteria PowerPoint HIMSS Webinar; January 6, 2010 *Meaningful Use, [...]
Jim Giuffré, MPH — Healthwise Steve Hards — Telecare Aware Rose Higgins, RN, BSN, MPM — iMetrikus Jim Jacobson, JD — Holland & Knight Ken Joslyn, MD, MPH — Medica Health Plans David C. Kibbe, MD MBA — The Kibbe Group Joseph Kvedar, MD — Center for Connected Health Al Lewis, JD — Disease Management [...]
An article in today’s Washington Post links to a letter written by Senator Charles E. Grassley. The letter is directed at 10 EMR (electronic medical record) vendors, and asks very pointed questions about whether the vendors have been negligent in not addressing patient safety issues in their technologies. Senator Grassley, you have the scent and [...]
by Glen Laffel MD, PhD Many of us have enjoyed a few good minutes of fun having our fortunes told by soothsayers who claim they can predict our future based on patterns of tea leaves in a cup or the playing cards we’ve pulled from a deck. We pay a few dollars for the entertainment [...]
Blogger Fred Pennic writes a review of the (HIMSS) Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society 2008 Book of the Year Award. The book is entitled Keys to EMR Success: Selecting and Implementing an Electronic Medical Record and is written by Ronald Sterling, CPA, MBA. There is no question,” says Sterling “that the selection and implementation of [...]
by David C. Kibbe MD, MBA The remarkable report, “Initial Lessons From the First National Demonstration Project on Practice Transformation to a Patient-Centered Medical Home,” published in the May/June issue of Annals of Family Medicine, the Nutting Report, makes this point about the state of primary care IT offerings: Technology needed in a PCMH is [...]
The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama administration’s strategy for health IT adoption, said David Blumenthal, the new national coordinator for health IT. Government HealthIT, April 28, 2009 …but not everyone sees eye-to-eye on the definitions of “meaningful use” and [...]
If you’re a dog (an innovator), what’s there to smile about over HITECH? Quite a bit. In the first post of this series, I suggested that HITECH favors cats by about 60/40 and noted that the single most cat-like feature of HITECH is providing incentives for physicians and hospitals to acquire and implement EHRs — but [...]
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