Industry Responds to GOP Letter Stating Cease EHR Incentives
Reactions to Call for HHS to Stop EHR Incentives In a letter dated October 4th, four GOP Congressional Committee Chairmen wrote to HHS Secretary Sebilus…
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Key Issues to HIE and Patient Identity Integrity
HIEs and Patient Matching Noam Arzt, PhD, president and founder of HLN Consulting Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) represent a collection of organizations that choose to…
NwHIN Exchange Completes Transition to eHealth Exchange
Healtheway Assumes Operations of eHealth Exchange The Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange, which was formerly known as the NHIN Cooperative, is a group of stakeholders…
The Wrong Question on Electronic Health Records
Paper-Based Records Part of a Broken Healthcare System By Dr. Ashish K. Jha @ashishkjha The wrong question always produces an irrelevant answer, no matter how…
Letter to HHS Sebelius Calls for Halting of EHR Incentives
5 obvious cases against suspending MU payments Tom Sullivan, Editor, Government Health IT Timing being everything and all, the four Republican congressmen who sent a letter this…
Bipartisan Briefing Seeks to Accelerate Health Information Exchange
Group Looks to Hasten the Road to Interoperability The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is a non-profit founded in 2007 by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard…
Hospitals – Are You Ready for Health Information Exchange?
10 Key Readiness Indicators for Health Information Exchange ECRI Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied scientific research to enable improvement of patient…
ONC Looks to Accelerate Adoption and Meaningful Use by CAHs
Commits $30 million for RECs to Aid Critical Access Hospitals In a blog post last week the ONC issued a call to action to see…
HIMSS Policy Summit Asks for Patient Data Matching Strategies
Unique Patient Identifiers (UPI) Needs to be Addressed Again The National Health IT week this year ended its week long activities and events with the…