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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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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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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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Whose Position is it?
November 27, 2007 7:15 PM by Frank Irving

A Democratic presidential candidate proposes the following three measures to improve adoption of electronic medical record systems, according to his/her official Web site: 1) Invest at least $1 billion per year in moving to electronic health record systems. Read More...

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