By David McCallie – I have been honored to have served on the HIT Standards Committee from its beginning in 2009. As I reach my term limits, I have reflected on what we have all learned over the past six years of helping to define the standards for the certified EHR technology that lies behind the Meaningful Use program.
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By William Hyman – The recent ONC webinar on “EHR Usability & Health IT Safety” provided three interesting presentations on the design of EHRs and the influence of design on effective use.
By Dr. Anthony Oliva – Being able to “speak doctor” ensures that physicians are accurately capturing the level they provide to patients, and enables healthcare organizations to correctly identify their patient populations and predict their future healthcare needs.
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By Paula Braun – It’s a familiar narrative. A crime drama opens with a dead body. Police are on the scene taking testimony from eyewitnesses, if there are any. A detective arrives and unravels the clues. How did this person die? More often than not, the answers aren’t obvious. That’s what makes it interesting.
By John Halamka MD – In my previous writing, I’ve suggested that the federal government co-opted our Clinical IT agenda over the past three years with Meaningful Use Stage 2, ICD-10, the HIPAA Omnibus Rule, and the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
By Matthew Fisher – Concierge medicine is a term and concept often discussed, but at the same time often not fully understood. It is not necessarily a new model of practice, but it has gained significantly increased attention since passage of the Affordable Care Act.
The healthcare industry has endured more than 20 years of research, hearings, testimony, proposed rules, comment periods, final rules, and three ICD-10 delays. Nearly $30 billion in costs have been incurred to plan, train, convert systems, test, and prepare for ICD-10.
By William Hersh – Many of us in the informatics field, myself included, sometimes believe that the value proposition of informatics is so intuitively obvious that we do not need to explain it to the rest of the world. API-based interoperability? Secondary use of clinical data? Standardized terminology? Their value is so certain that we need not explain it. Not!