The Wrong Question on Electronic Health Records
Paper-Based Records Part of a Broken Healthcare System By Dr. Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha The wrong question always produces an irrelevant answer, no matter how…
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Letter to HHS Sebelius Calls for Halting of EHR Incentives
5 obvious cases against suspending MU payments Tom Sullivan, Editor, Government Health IT Timing being everything and all, the four Republican congressmen who sent a letter this…
Bipartisan Briefing Seeks to Accelerate Health Information Exchange
Group Looks to Hasten the Road to Interoperability The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a non-profit founded in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard…
Hospitals – Are You Ready for Health Information Exchange?
10 Key Readiness Indicators for Health Information Exchange ECRI Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient…
ONC Looks to Accelerate Adoption and Meaningful Use by CAHs
Commits $30 million for RECs to Aid Critical Access Hospitals In a blog post last week the ONC issued a call to action to see…
HIMSS Policy Summit Asks for Patient Data Matching Strategies
Unique Patient Identifiers (UPI) Needs to be Addressed Again The National Health IT week this year ended its week long activities and events with the…
Disaster Preparedness Must Include HIE
Southeast Regional HIT-HIE Collaboration Final Report The HITECH Act outlined mandates and provided funding for a multitude of developing programs and initiatives all to increase…
ONC advancing Blue Button, CDS standards efforts
Automating the Blue Button to Exchange PHI Mary Mosquera Senior Editor, Government Health IT Developers in an ONC voluntary community are beginning to drill down into…
Patient-centric HIEs Will Meet Demands of Baby Boomers
The Patients Are Coming! The Patients Are Coming! Beyond Electronic Health Records The CDC recently reported that 55% of physicians are now using EHRs, and…