By William Hersh – Raising a number of caveats about the enthusiasm for leveraging the growing volume of patient data in EHRs and other clinical information systems for so-called re-use of secondary use, such as clinical research, quality improvement, and public health.
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Eight new members of the Health Information Technology Standards Committee and one new member to the Health Information Technology Policy Committee have been named to new terms. The two federal advisory committees were created through the HITECH Act in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act.
By Bob Grant – The Obama administration submitted its budget proposal for fiscal-year 2017. The OCR Budget in Brief details the increased budget–$1.15 trillion of which is allotted for HHS. $43 million of these funds will go to the Office for Civil Rights, and $82 million will go to the ONC.
By Andrew Gettinger MD – Safety is and always has been a top priority at ONC. We have incorporated safety into the ONC Health IT Certification Program and our guiding documents, the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan: 2015 – 2020 and Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap.
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 thoughts on the issues of today. Here are the top read and shared guest posts of May.
By Thomas Mason MD – Playbooks Aren’t Just for Sports Teams: Clinicians and other health care providers practice medicine with the noble goal of improving patient outcomes. The day-to-day considerations in treating patients are complex, which is where technology can be leveraged to streamline and better inform the patient-provider interaction.
The Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute has awarded the NHC $246,300 through the PCORI Eugene Washington Engagement Award program to create a patient-specific curriculum on health care quality. NHC, collaborating with the NQF and U of MD, will create a patient-specific curriculum on health care quality.
If your healthcare organization is like most, you have a lot of them. You may not use them, or even access them much, but you probably still spend a lot of time and money on them. Take the Bridgehead Software survey and you will be entered in a drawing for the Moto 360 smart watch.
By John Halamka MD – Earlier this week, the American Medical Association CEO called digital healthcare products modern-day “snake oil”. As a provider and a technologist, I think we need a deeper dive to understand the issues, avoiding the kind of hyperbole that’s so common in politics today.