Thoughts on the HIT Policy Committee
Why the HIT Standards Committee is “Camelot”
Advice for furthering CPOE and electronic documentation
Hospital/physician practice integration
Tackling quality measures
John Halamka, M.D., CIO, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chapter 2
08/22/2011 By Leave a Comment
Is The Meaningful Use Race Fair?
06/24/2011 By 1 Comment
In a recent article, I was portrayed as someone who does not fully believe the benefits of EMR adoption are, shall we say, meaningful. The author went on to describe the tremendous benefits one health system has gotten from the use of EHR and how terrific the new HITECH regulations and incentives are. I assume [...]
Test Cases Urged In Usability Recommendations
06/09/2011 By Leave a Comment
Rather than study electronic health record (EHR) usability in the abstract, “a few high-value use cases, particularly those that have patient safety implications,” should be examined, according to recommendations developed by the HIT Policy Committee’s Adoption and Certification Workgroup. Those recommendations — based on a day of hearings held by the workgroup — were outlined [...]
Marc Probst, Member, HIT Policy Committee, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 2
05/03/2011 By Leave a Comment
*The cost of volunteering
*PCAST implications
*The new National Coordinator
*The government process — “It’s not the way you’d run a business, for sure”
*Thoughts on Stage 2
Marc Probst, Member, HIT Policy Committee, CIO, Intermountain Healthcare, Transcript/Podcast Chapter 1
04/26/2011 By 1 Comment
*Attestation begins, but will it tell us much?
“*If we don’t pay attention to what happens in Stage 1, we could completely debilitate this process in Stage 2″
*”Meaningful Use was written very much for the vended applications”
*Defining success for the Meaningful Use program
It’s Time To Narrow Down Stage 2
04/14/2011 By Leave a Comment
One of my biggest frustrations in past jobs was the way meetings were handled. Being very much the kind of person who needs concrete results to feel like the time invested has been well spent, I bristled at meetings whose only deliverable seemed to be the scheduling of another meeting to “revisit the topic.” Now, [...]
Faulkner Floats Conflict Charge in PCAST Debate
04/14/2011 By Leave a Comment
Judy Faulkner, CEO of Epic and a member of the HIT Policy Committee, told other members of the committee and new National Coordinator Farzad Mostashari, M.D., she was concerned that forces promoting the PCAST vision also stood to gain from its adoption. “What is showing up in blogs — I have seen and sometimes been [...]
Frustration Flares in MU Workgroup Debate
04/06/2011 By Leave a Comment
The HIT Policy Committee’s Meaningful Use Workgroup struggled to reach consensus on key Stage 2 requirements, with some accusing the group of being timid in certain areas, while others characterized proposed requirements as unrealistic in the given timeframe. Specifically in the area of providing patients electronic access to their hospital visit summaries through a Web-based [...]
