Count Down to Health Datapalooza IV
The Liberation of Health Data and Health Datapalooza The Health Data Initiative (HDI) was launched in 2010 by the Department of Health & Human Services…
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Switching EHRs? Three Key Factors To Consider
You REALLY Want to Switch EHRs. Now What? Brad Benson CEO at Health eFormatics A study by Blackbook rankings found that the top 4 reasons that physicians…
HRSA Holds Webinar on EHRs and Smoking Cessation
HRSA Webinar on Using an EHR and Quality Data for Smoking Cessation The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health…
PatientsLikeMe Seeks Participation in New Open Research Exchange Platform
Names Advisory Board forResearch Platform on Patient-Centered Health Outcome Measures Last week PatientsLikeMe announced an open call for medical researchers to be among the first…
EHRs and Saving Money
COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A persistent theme in EHR adoption is…
ONC Releases Direct Implementation Guide to Aid in Interoperability
Common Practices for HISPs, Accrediting Bodies Established for Security and Interoperability Last week the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released the…
WEDI ICD-10 State Collaborative Initiative Launched
New WEDI ICD-10 Initiative Looks at Reducing Time, Costs Associated with Compliance The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in…
Four Years Later: Impact of the HITECH Act on EHR Implementations
New Report Looks At 2013 EHR Buying Trends By David Fried, Software Advice In a press release last Wednesday, the Department of Health and Human…
What’s Your Exit Strategy?
Ryan Ricks, DataSourceMD Follow him on Twitter @ryan_ricks One of the first questions pundits ask any time the U.S. gets embroiled in an international conflict…