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EHR incentive programs in 2011: A letdown?
The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs seem to be getting mixed reviews, to some extent. Many laud the initiatives as a way to jumpstart the adoption of EHRs and move
Consensus on digital certificates should boost Direct Project messaging
The Direct Project , the secure clinical messaging protocol introduced earlier this year, has advanced to the next level with the announcement that a workgroup of the Direct Project consortium has
Renamed Direct Project to demonstrate email-like secure messaging
NHIN Direct, we hardly knew thee. The health information exchange protocol to help small physician practices participate in the Nationwide Health Information Network and achieve a key "meaningful
EMRs can't fulfill potential unless patients have access to their own data
Here's the $25 billion (give or take a few billion) question: "Is HITECH working?" That's the title of a multi-part series by Vince Kuraitis, Dr. David Kibbe and Dave deBronkart, a.k.a. "e-Patient
Kibbe: New ONC standards make CCHIT process 'irrelevant'
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology has had its fair share of critics. Some have been the kind of anonymous Internet ranters with either a personal axe to grind or
VistA is powerful, but is it adaptable?
The lead in a Federal Computer Week story pretty well sums up the conundrum: "Is VistA a diva in disguise?" The open-source EMR at the heart of the Department of Veterans Affairs' health IT strategy
Pardon the disruption
I've just returned from the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound in Seattle, where I sat in on two days of presentations and workshops about transforming healthcare with technology. There were some cool,
New CCHIT policy wins over critics
The early reviews seem to be positive for the recent decision by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology to give EMR developers three options for achieving certification.
Want technology adoption? Make it easy to use
I've been immersed in cutting-edge technology and stories about the same for the past day and a half while at the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound conference in Seattle, a city that is a hotbed of
PHRs face serious growing pains
In theory, PHRs seem like a nifty idea, allowing patients to make their clinical and administrative information available to any provider that can access a web browser. Doctors and hospitals save the
