Public Health Reporting, Direct Project, and the new ONC
Farzad Mostashari Takes Over ONC Dr. Farzad Mostashari became the new ONC this week.Secretary Sebilus announced Blumenthal’s replacement after a lot of speculation and blogger’s…
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Tuesday’s Tips 3-29-11
By now you and your practice are making decisions on just what to do about selecting, planning, and installing Certified EHR Technology in your facilities….
Tackling EHR contract selection and negotiation
Join O’Toole Law Group Founder William O’Toole on January 25, 2011 at 7 pm EST for a special Q & A session following the release…
Getting to know the ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology(ONC) is the key to carrying out the HITECH Act and bring about EHR adoption along…
Stage 1 Meaningful Use and EHR implementation
Our HITECH Answers website went live in April 2009, a mere six weeks after the passing of the HITECH Act. From the start, our goal…
REC Update – West South Central
Update on Regional Extension Centers (REC) The 62 Regional Extension Centers (RECs) are located in 9 regional areas. This post is checking in on the…
And the survey says…
How’s that EHR adoption thing going? I am never sure myself with the snippets of information I read every day. Here are some facts and…
Healthcare in the 21st Century
Peggy Salvatore, MBA Healthcare writer, health system instructional designer Electronic patient record systems aren’t about the electronic record systems, of course, they are about the…
Recovery Room – 10/21/10
As usual, my Recovery Room posts try to highlight HITECH news and events we think you should know about. Here are some highlights. Health 2.0,…