A Call To Action for a Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
New ONC Paper Released By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A…
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Understanding the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception
Applying for a Meaningful Use Hardship Exception By Joy Rios, Partner at Practice Transformation Twitter: @askjoyrios What is the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception? Penalties for…
You Say You Want a Meaningful Use Revolution?
Time to Overthrow Meaningful Use? By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate, eMail: audits@emradvocate.com Whether you call it evolution or revolution…
Incentives, Regulations and Consequences
Good Intentions Doesn’t Mean Good Policy By John Moore, Founder & Managing Partner Chilmark Research Twitter: @john_chilmark Good intentions do not always result, in the…
Successful Results from CMS ICD-10 Acknowledgement Testing Week
Additional Testing Scheduled for Next Year By Niall Brennan, Acting Director, CMS Offices of Enterprise Management This past March, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid…
Health IT Issues that Deserve a Second Read – May
Top Guest Posts of the Month One of the ways that HITECH Answers is different from other media sites is the sense of community. The…
A Letter to the ONC Staff from Dr. DeSalvo
Moving into the Next Chapter The following is an email sent to the ONC staff from the National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD on Friday, May…
Four Ways to Keep Up With Connected Healthcare
Challenges Presented by the Reality of  Connected Healthcare By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity The world of healthcare continues to evolve into greater connectivity,…
EHR Integrated Patient Portals
Patient Portals as it Relates to Engagement By Zach Watson Twitter: @Technology_Adv Having been forecast for some time now, the hour of the patient portal…