Obama’s Health Care Speech
Wednesday evening brought President Obama out to address the Joint Session of Congress upon their return from the summer recess. In an attempt to take…
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HIPAA Webinars-on-Demand
The passing of the HITECH Act of 2009 mandated additional guidelines for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA). On August 24, 2009 the Department of…
Introducing MD Blogs
The HITECH Act has introduced many new issues and challenges for the sole practitioner, small group practices, community clinics, rural hospitals, and hospital systems. At…
SXSW – Vote Now
SXSW Panel Picker voting has been extended to midnight tonight for those of you who still haven’t cast a vote for Sick Clicks: The Evolution…
Funding Plan for Regional Centers
On Thursday, August 27, Dr. Farzad Mostashari of ONCHIT, hosted a web conference for over 1200 participants detailing a new grant program authorized by the…
A Week in Review
For a week that had most of America asking, “what happened to summer?” and getting ready for school, you might think there is very little…
HIT Standards Committee Meeting Tomorrow
While listening in on the HIT Policy meeting last week I was following along with some of the Twitter chatter. The morning sessions were actually…
The Waiting Room week of 8/16/09
The HIT Standards Committee will meet on Thursday this week. The three workgroups Clinical operations, Clinical Quality, and Privacy & Security are slated to present…
Recommendations Adopted
On Friday, the HIT Policy Committee had their monthly meeting. The usual suspects were there and the three workgroups along with the Standards Committee’s workgroups…