Switching EHRs? Consider This
Ask Joy: This Week – A Wish List for those Making the Big Switch It’s estimated that 23 percent of physician practices are ready to trade…
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Are You Getting Good Advice from Your Clinical Decision Support Systems?
Electronic Bad Advice COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Meaningful Use requires the…
Patient Portals and EHRs: Generating Reports
Ask Joy: This Week – Patient Electronic Access Measures Some of the details of Meaningful Use Stage 2 are proving to be quite tricky. This week…
Mostashari, CMS Lay Out HIE Long View
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, the office and its parent agency, the Centers for Medicare…
ONC Releases Updated Meaningful Use Attestation Numbers
Meaningful Use Attestation Numbers Through July 31, 2013 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT along with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid…
Why Does Identity Matter for Interoperability?
Identity is Vital to the Concept of Interoperability I’m Eric Rosenfeld, Chief Technology Officer at DrFirst. Or am I? Do you really know? But in…
CONNECT 4.2 Released
CONNECT was initially developed by federal agencies and used to support their electronic health related projects under the Federal Health Architecture. It is considered a…
ONC Interoperability Training Courses
Online MU Stage 2 Standards Courses Training modules on new standards implementation for Eligible Professionals (EPs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) are now available from…
Better Health Info, Better Health: Announcing ONC’s Certified HIT Mark
Carol Bean / Director, Office of Certification and Testing Peter Garrett / Director, Office of Communications More and more Americans across the country are relying on their…