Blumenthal’s Keynote at HIMSS
ONC David Blumenthal spoke to a full house on Wednesday as the keynote speaker at the HIMSS Conference in Atlanta. He said he was a…
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ONC Issues Certification Programs Rules
The ONC released its expected NPRM for the Establishment of Certification Programs for Health Information Technology on March 3rd this week during the biggest HIT…
The Quest for EHR Adoption
Today the public is commenting on the ONC Interim Final Rule and the CMS Notice of Proposed Rulemaking. The IFR issues rules for an initial…
Recovery Room 2/7/09
Comments on both the ONC IFR and the CMS NPRM are starting to come in. For the most part, the NPRM comments have been from individuals…
January HIT Meetings
The HIT Policy Committee and its workgroups met this month. The Meaningful Use (MU) workgroup met twice, the NHIN, Planning, Privacy, and HIE met once….
Keeping up with MU
The official rules covering meaningful use were published in the Federal Registry on January 13. The two rules cover meaningful use of EHR as mandated…
Rules and Regulations Released
In a joint briefing today ONC and CMS announced their respective rules and notices. The ONC released the anticipated interim final rule on Standards &…
December HIT meetings
The HIT Policy committee met last Tuesday for the final meeting before interim rules should be released. CMS is still on track for the Notice…
The Beacon Community Program
The following guest post is provided by Wm. T. Oravecz, managing partner of WTO-Associates LLC. Earlier this month, HHS Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius announced $235 million…