Developing a Shared, Nationwide Roadmap for Interoperability
From the ONC Buzz By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc, and Erica Galvez/Interoperability and Exchange Portfolio Manager, ONC When we issued our interoperability vision paper,…
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Buzzing Over Cerner Buying Health IT Unit of Siemens
Cerner, Siemens, Blue Shield CA, Anthem Blue Cross: What Happens Next? By Alan Portela, CEO of AirStrip Twitter: @AirStripmHealth The industry is buzzing over the…
July meeting of the HIT Standards Committee
Discussions on Certification for Post Acute Care and Behavioral Health By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka The July meeting of the HIT Standards Committee included important discussions…
The Road to Interoperability
Stage 2 of Meaningful Use By John D’Amore, MS, President and CTO of Diameter Health The data on avoidable waste and medical error in the…
A 4-Step Approach to Interoperability
Real-Time Data Must Simultaneously be Pushed and Pulled in the Right Ways By Brian Ahier, Director of standards and government affairs, and Ashish Shah, Chief…
ONC 10-Year Strategic Vision for Interoperability
By Ed Jones III, Author and President of HIPAA, LLC. Twitter: @HIPAAsafeguards This year, 2014, marks the end of the Decade of Health Information Technology, initiated…
A Call To Action for a Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
New ONC Paper Released By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A…
You Say You Want a Meaningful Use Revolution?
Time to Overthrow Meaningful Use? By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate, eMail: audits@emradvocate.com Whether you call it evolution or revolution…
A Letter to the ONC Staff from Dr. DeSalvo
Moving into the Next Chapter The following is an email sent to the ONC staff from the National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD on Friday, May…