HITECH naysayers come out of the woodwork
Ray Campbell, head of the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium (MHDC), probably didn’t surprise many people last week at his organization’s annual meeting in Boston when he outlined the many ways the...
View ArticleNewt Gingrich votes for GE Centricity SaaS EHR
Tuesday, GE Healthcare unveiled Centricity, a Software as a Service (SaaS) electronic health record (EHR) for ambulatory practices. Only 15% of these solo primary care docs, small group practices and...
View ArticleCIOs: Meaningful use final rule will qualify more for incentives
Like all stakeholders in the health care world who are rolling out or upgrading electronic health record (EHR) systems, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is still...
View ArticleONC doles out first EHR certification powers
The federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT made its long-awaited announcement naming the first ONC-Authorized Testing and Certification Bodies (ONC-ATCB). Numerous observers believe...
View ArticleIt’s been a stormy couple of weeks for Health IT
It’s been a stormy fortnight, weather-wise, for a good chunk of the country. In Washington, health care and health IT initiatives were battered by winds of potential political change as well. It...
View ArticleCMS official explains the EHR attestation process
Providers may begin the attestation process for receiving electronic health record incentive payments April 18, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Listen as Robert Anthony,...
View ArticleONC tackles health IT patient engagement; will it work?
This is a big week for patient engagement, at least at a national level. To wit: President Obama proclaimed it Health IT Week. CMS released adjustments to HIPAA privacy rules and CLIA laboratory rules...
View ArticleWill election influence meaningful use stage 2 release date?
Here at SearchHealthIT, we’re creating an office pool for when the final meaningful use stage 2 rule will drop. National HIT policy leader and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center CIO John Halamka, MD...
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