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Medical certification boards help drive critical mass of health IT
Date: Aug 10, 2010 Continuing on the theme of Monday’s blog on driving critical mass, two significant medical certification boards - the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) - have announced their intention to make health IT deployment a standard in their assessment and certification of physician competency.
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Looking ahead to potential changes for stage 2 meaningful use criteria
Date: Jul 15, 2010 Incoming reaction and comments to the final meaningful use criteria have so far been fairly positive. I don't know if the organizations that are calling for changes are resigned to the fact that the rule making for stage 1 is final and want their comments to be taken into consideration when the stage 2 requirements are being discussed.
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Final meaningful use criteria: "Ambitious but achievable"
Date: Jul 14, 2010 The Dept. of Health and Human Services obviously listened to the resounding criticism that the proposed meaningful use criteria were asking for too much, too soon or all or nothing.
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The Road to EMR adoption: A Q&A with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, Part 3
Date: Jun 25, 2010 This is the third installment of the interview conducted with Heather Haugen and Jeffrey Woodside, MD, whose book, Beyond Implementation: A Prescription for Lasting EMR Adoption, was published in May.
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Home-based care needs EHRs
Date: Jun 15, 2010 We're starting to see more validation for EHR implementation from multiple organizations and different segments of the healthcare delivery system. This is good news.
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Ensuring the digital divide shrinks under ARRA
Date: Jun 07, 2010 There were many concerns when ARRA funds were first announced, with fears of the digital divide widening being one of the major ones. Thus far, HHS and ONC have done a great job in terms of thoughtful and thorough strategic planning and establishing programs to ensure that those concerns are addressed.
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National privacy center backed by trusted entities
Date: Jun 03, 2010 Amidst all the millions of federal dollars slated for health IT adoption, HHS understands the importance of protecting patient information in electronic form.
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Tracking health IT incentive payments
Date: May 19, 2010 CMS announced it will spend $34 million to have Northrop Grumman track health IT incentive payments. It seems as if the last several months millions of dollars have been pouring out of HHS. For those who are opposed to all this spending, this announcement may seem like the federal government is pouring more money into a bottomless pit.
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Students should flock to healthcare IT
Date: May 10, 2010 Amid an economy still recovering from a deep recession, students participating in the University of California San Diego Extension Health Information Technology Program are very lucky.
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California hospital truly owns its EMR
Date: Apr 28, 2010 Getting clinicians and other end users involved in the selection, implementation and training of an EMR is a key component to successful provider adoption, but Oroville Hospital in northern California
