The Electronic Health Record Association announced the release of Version 2 of the EHR Developer Code of Conduct is being made available to the health IT industry following unanimous approval by the Association’s member companies earlier this month.
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By Karen B. DeSalvo & Matthew Swain – The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued its annual report to Congress on health IT progress. Developing this report provided us with an opportunity to reflect on our collective health IT journey and the significance of the past year for HHS and our federal and private partners.
At HIMSS16 in Las Vegas the conversation was dominated by three topics – interoperability, cybersecurity and the shift to value-based care. I got the chance to interview industry leaders and vendors on these topics and associated provider challenges.
One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The thought leaders in our community are good about sharing their thought on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of February.
For the 3rd year, John and Shahid are hosting the Health IT Marketing and PR Conference. The conference focuses on B2B marketing to doctors, practice managers, and hospital executives. Register today, registration ends on 3/17/16.
Each year at the HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition we get together and talk to leading experts to hear just what they have to say about what is going on and where we are going in health IT. Here are some of the people I spoke to.
Adoption and utilization of digital health tools among providers, clinical research organizations, payers and pharmaceutical companies is set to increase this year, according to a paper Validic published in advance of the and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) association’s 2016 Annual Conference & Exhibition.
By Terry Hayes – Keeping healthcare information flowing to the right people, at the right time, creates the potential for more effective patient care and population health management. However, a greater number of moving parts also means greater risk.
By Andy Slavitt – I love working with Karen De Salvo. She can talk in half sentences and I can finish them. We’ve naturally been working together for months on some of the initiatives we’re talking about here, and always check in to compare facts, see if we’re seeing the same thing.