Healthcare CIOs Praise ONC for Standards ‘Playbook’
Building on the announcement from HHS, pledging much-needed changes to the Meaningful Use program, healthcare IT leaders praised the release of the Office of the…
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ONC Issues Draft Nationwide Health IT Interoperability Roadmap
The ONC released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0. The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use of electronic health information.
2015 eHealth Initiative Annual Conference
eHealth Initiative’s 2015 Annual Conference & Member Meetings February 3-5 Washington, DC The conference will bring together the most influential leaders from across the healthcare…
The Experience of Interoperability Thus Far
By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka As I travel across the country and listen to CIOs struggling with mandates from Meaningful Use to ICD-10 to…
2015 ONC Annual Meeting
Online registration for the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting closes Friday January 16, so register today! February 2-3, 2015 Washington Hilton Hotel 1919 Connecticut Ave, NW…
2015 ONC Annual Meeting
Online registration for the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting closes Friday January 16, so register today! We look forward to seeing you here in Washington, DC in just a few short weeks at the 2015 ONC Annual Meeting: Interoperable Health IT for a Healthy Nation.
Interoperability and the Future of Care Delivery
By Tee Green, CEO, Greenway Health Twitter: @WTeeGreen Twitter: @greenway The healthcare industry has done a remarkable job of replacing traditional paper charts with electronic health records…
Interoperability and the Future of Care Delivery
By Tee Green – The healthcare industry has done a remarkable job of replacing traditional paper charts with electronic health records (EHRs). Information that used to be sharable only by the most rudimentary means — it’s been said that fax machines lasted so long only because of healthcare — is now captured and stored electronically in a readily transmittable form.
True Interoperability: Public API’s Provide the Open Platform Health IT Requires
Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a system that benefits patients, doctors and hospitals. Almost everyone in healthcare is pressing for it and is frustrated, though probably not surprised, that Meaningful Use did not get us there.