In most big cities, there are several competing systems that battle for patients and managed care contracts. Ordinarily, these systems would be loathe to let...
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4 Take-Aways about Direct Secure Messaging for Health IT Developers from ONC-CMS Proposed Rulemaking
The following is a guest blog post by Hugh Gilenson from DataMotion and Kyle Meadors from Chart Lux Consulting. New rules recently proposed by the US...
What do we really need to make the best use of shared patient data? Some say that once we have adequate data sharing protocols in place (such as FHIR or...
We’re excited to share the topic and questions for this week’s #HITsm chat happening Friday, 8/25 at Noon ET (9 AM PT). This week’s chat will be hosted by Greg...
One of the most dynamic healthcare CIO’s is Shafiq Rab, MD, MPH, Vice President and CIO at Hackensack UMC. Healthcare Scene was lucky enough to talk with...
The previous section of this paper introduced problems found in HIE by two reports: one from the Office of the National Coordinator and another from experts at...
A high-level view of the direction being taken by electronic health records in the U.S. comes from a recent data brief released by the Office of the National...
The first part of this article provided a view of the current data needs in health care and asked whether open source electronic health records could solve...
In my January update on Meaningful Use Stage 2 readiness, I painted a dismal picture of a large IDN’s journey towards attestation, and expressed concern for...