The riddle of adoption of consumer PHRs
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD The term Personal Health Record, or PHR, has taken on different meanings, depending on who is talking. Mostly, it refers…
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RECs move forward post HITECH money
Money Well Spent The HITECH Act authorized the Health Information Technology Extension Program and the ONC awarded 62 grants for Health Information Technology Regional Extension…
Annual NeHC Survey Looks at Health IT Stakeholder Challenges for 2013
National eHealth Collaborative Releases Health IT Stakeholders Survey National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) is a public-private partnership with a mission to advance the secure and interoperable exchange…
HIMSS Hosts Virtual Educational Session on HIE, Interoperability
Health Information Exchange, Interoperability and Standards: Enablers to Health IT Transformation In case you didn’t get enough interoperability at the HIMSS13 conference last week or…
Clinton speaks at HIMSS
Clinton on Healthcare “There’s nothing wrong we can’t fix.” According to The New Orleans Times-Picayune, HIMSS 2013 will be the largest convention this year for…
Social Interoperability
By Keith Boone, Healthcare Standards Every now and then a string of words will get put together, and peoples ears perk up, and you realize…
HIMSS Annual Survey Shows Federal Health IT Initiatives Are Paying Off
Impact of Provider Investments in Health IT On Monday HIMSS released the results to their annual Leadership Survey. The results of the survey indicate that…
HIMSS13: Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Pay, ONC Budget
by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Managing Editor NEW ORLEANS — There were nearly 60 education sessions at the Healthcare Information and Management Society’s Annual Conference on…
Complying with HIPAA, HITECH and mHealth Mandates
Visit Axway at HIMSS Booth #5757 Complying with HIPAA, HITECH, and mobile health mandates: Four items to address By Ruby Raley, Director, Healthcare Solutions, Axway…