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Looking to refine its Stage 2 recommendations before presenting them to the full HIT Policy Committee, the Meaningful Use Workgroup this week debated whether eligible providers (EPs) should have to report appropriate lab values, conditions or both to public health agencies. While hospitals are required to do so under Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, “EPs […]
One of the main gripes we have about politicians is they say whatever is necessary to get elected, then largely act as their predecessors had. In short – we are left with, at worst, broken, at best, unfulfilled, campaign promises. But the less nefarious and, thus, less satisfying reason for this eternal phenomenon is that […]
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 […]
Faced with comments that its Meaningful Use Stage 2 draft recommendations and their associated timelines were too onerous, the Meaningful Use Workgroup, a subcommittee of ONC’s HIT Policy Committee, will examine how it can ameliorate the program’s timing, requirements, or both. While it is by no means certain the group will take such action, comments […]
When I was an undergraduate studying Anthropology, I decided to research the degree to which museum goers looked at exhibits with critical eyes. As I suspected, my surveys confirmed most visitors merely assumed everything was “accurate” because the presentation seemed so “official.” They never thought that the professionals charged with assembling the displays could, in […]
