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CCHIT Confident in Becoming Accredited EHR Certifying Body
March 3, 2010 12:50 PM by Frank Irving
Statement from Alisa Ray, executive director, Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) Having reviewed the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding certifying bodies, we feel confident about [CCHIT's] prospects of becoming accredited. Read More...
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HHS Releases NPRM on Testing and Certifying EHRs
March 3, 2010 12:40 PM by Frank Irving
On March 2 the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) outlining the proposed approach for establishing a certification program to test and certify electronic health records (EHRs). In an Read More...
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ObamaCare: The Threat to Physician Autonomy
March 1, 2010 6:49 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Richard Amerling, MD, a nephrologist practicing in New York City The debate raging over ObamaCare has been carried on mostly by politicians, pundits, policy wonks and economists, with little input from those most intimately involved Read More...
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Top 10 Health Law Issues for 2010
February 8, 2010 4:09 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Stephen W. Bernstein, a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP The year 2010 brings heightened health care focus on compliance, reform efforts and enforcement. This article breaks down the top 10 issues of this Read More...
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AHA Issues Statement on Meaningful Use
January 4, 2010 3:01 PM by Frank Irving
Association voices concerns about hospitals' ability to access HIT financing. Guest commentary from Rick Pollack, executive vice president, American Hospital Association America's hospitals have serious concerns that the new health information technology Read More...
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Achieving Meaningful Use
November 17, 2009 11:33 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Celwyn C. Evans, a senior partner at Greencastle Associates Consulting in Malvern, Pa. With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Read More...
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Flexible Accreditation: The Politically Acceptable Key to Accountability — and Interoperability
May 4, 2009 11:09 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Lee Barrett, executive director of the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards-development and accreditation organization. Information technology has been mature enough to transform Read More...
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Will the Weight of EMRs Break IT?
April 9, 2009 4:53 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Alex Adamopoulos, executive vice president and COO of Exigen Services Pulling together as a nation to overhaul an aging, often paper-based medical records system is long overdue. We can all agree it will create jobs, pump money into Read More...
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For EHR Implementation, the Time to Act is Now
March 26, 2009 2:37 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Thomas L. Pettibone, founder and managing partner of Transition Partners. President Obama's economic recovery package allows for billions of dollars for health care IT investment. As the recovery package begins to be distributed, Read More...
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EHR Rework Ahead
March 25, 2009 11:27 AM by Frank Irving
A large majority of readers -- 65 percent -- who answered ADVANCE 's online opinion poll during the past month said they need to rework their existing EHR plans in light of the HIT provisions of the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Read More...
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Change Can’t Happen with Technology Alone
March 3, 2009 11:39 AM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by Michael L. Cowan, MD, chief medical officer at BearingPoint and former surgeon general of the U.S. Navy It's official. The economic recovery package has been signed and $19 billion is marked for health information technology. But, Read More...
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Consumers Need All of the Facts in the Privacy Debate
February 26, 2009 1:06 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary by David St. Clair, founder and CEO, MEDecision The economic stimulus package that President Obama has signed contains upwards of $20 billion to create electronic health records for most Americans within five years. The president has Read More...
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Thinking Beyond EHRs
February 9, 2009 12:22 PM by Frank Irving
Guest commentary from Ned Moore, CEO and co-founder, Portico Systems, Inc. With the passage of the Obama economic stimulus package by the House of Representatives, now in Senate review, there has been a lot of discussion about what the $20 billion slated Read More...
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A Case of Murder and EHRs -- Final Chapter
November 6, 2007 7:40 AM by Frank Irving
A Case of Murder and EHRs Copyright 2007 by Peter J. Groen and Jaime Nasuti. Published with permission of the co-authors. Editor's note: This is the final chapter in this series of blog posts, completing the co-authors' short story. If you don't want Read More...
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A Case of Murder and EHRs -- Chapter Ten
November 5, 2007 9:59 AM by Frank Irving
A Case of Murder and EHRs Copyright 2007 by Peter J. Groen and Jaime Nasuti. Published with permission of the co-authors. CHAPTER TEN As Dr. Douglas was recovering from the unbelievable events that had unfolded just days before, he made a final detailed Read More...
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