David Blumenthal, M.D., has resigned as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, according to a report from Kaiser Health News. He will leave this spring and return to Harvard University. No word of a successor has been announced.
Dancing to the HITECH Tune
12/29/2010 By Leave a Comment
I like my independence, which is perhaps why I started my own company earlier this year. Sure, in a sense, I work for my customers, and they essentially take the role of my former bosses, but it really is quite different. When you have a boss, you don’t get to say no (without usually suffering [...]
Barriers to Meaningful Use with Modular Certification
12/01/2010 By 3 Comments
The ONC has given guidance which is adding more roadblocks for hospitals and health systems working to become meaningful users of EHRs. As I posted on the ONC blog, they have published on the ONC website an FAQ stating that hospitals must have EHRs that have been certified against all 24 objectives of meaningful use, not just [...]
A Physics Lesson for Healthcare
10/01/2010 By Leave a Comment
“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.” Martin Luther King once said. The Healthcare delivery system is on the verge of change. It will take hard work from all of us to us to make it happen. I like to look at it terms of structure and change. Structure being the underlying construct of the healthcare system and change the process by which we struggle to manifest a new delivery model. The federal Government has outlined a structure.
PODCAST: One-on-One-w/HealthEast Care System VP & CIO Mac McClurkan, Chapter 4
09/28/2010 By Leave a Comment
For Mac McClurkan, managing vendor relationships isn’t all that complicated — set clear expectations and then hold everyone involved to the highest levels of accountability. With such clarity going in, it’s hard for either party to feel wronged. Well along on his CPOE journey at HealthEast, McClurkan has other fish to fry, such as attaining [...]
PODCAST: One-on-One-w/HealthEast Care System VP & CIO Mac McClurkan, Chapter 4 [ 12:33 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (212)Quality Workgroup Cautioned to Tread Lightly
09/14/2010 By Leave a Comment
The HIT Policy Committee’s Quality Workgroup should take a less-is-more approach to developing Meaningful Use Stage 2 and 3 reporting requirements, according to committee member and Epic Systems Corporation CEO Judy Faulkner. “I am nervous that the government is going to get into the EHR design business,” said Faulkner, who spoke following the workgroup’s presentation to the full committee. “In many cases, Group A likes something, but Group B doesn’t, and perhaps Group C doesn’t like it either — I worry that we are becoming Group A and expecting Groups B, C and D to like what we did.”
CHIME: Bigger Are Better Positioned for MU
09/10/2010 By Leave a Comment
Expectations for achieving Meaningful Use and qualifying for incentive payments vary depending on the type of healthcare organization and its size, according to a recent CHIME survey. For example, 38 percent of CIO respondents from academic medical centers expect to qualify for stimulus funding within the first six months, compared with only 22 percent of CIOs at community hospitals.
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