Industry Reacts to ONC Mostashari Leaving
High Praise to Outgoing ONC Chief The big news last week was the announcement of Dr. Farzad Mostashari stepping down this fall. There has been…
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Mostashari Leaving ONC this Fall
Who will be the next ONC? Dr. Mostashari took over the ONC position from Dr. Blumenthal in April of 2011. He was Blumenthal’s right hand…
CMS/ONC Joint Webinar on Accelerating Health Information Exchange
ONC Mostashari Invites You to Joint Webinar On March 3rd the ONC formally requested information and comments on Advancing Interoperability and Health Information Exchange. Comments…
Changing Workflow Must Serve Patients and Practices
EHRs and Workflow COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A common complaint about…
ONC Goes to Washington
ONC Testifies to the Senate and Reports to Congress Well I know, the ONC is already in Washington but they have been spending some time…
Who’s Who on the #HIT100 List
3rd Annual HIT100 List and Our First Degree of Separation The #HIT100 list was started by Michael Planchart, The EHR Guy, @theEHRGuy. People vote on…
CMS Releases Updated Data on EHR Adoption
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data that demonstrate that doctors and hospitals are using electronic health records (EHRs) to provide more…
Health Affairs Briefing on Health IT Adoption
Health IT Adoption Trending Up Yesterday Health Affairs hosted a briefing to report on the latest trends in health IT adoption among US health care…
ONC Mostashari Says Slow but Steady Progress on Interoperability
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT Achieving Farzad Mostashari’s vision for a U.S. healthcare system where “every encounter and every patient has access to all the world’s…