Tavenner, Care Innovation Summit, and Senate Hearings
Confirmation of Acting CMS Administrator Tavenner Uncertain The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, the ONC, West Wireless Health Institute, and Health Affairs co-hosted last…
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Upcoming Health Care and Medical Conferences
Health Care Conferences Focused on Emerging Technologies Does the HIMSS conference have you thinking about other conferences to consider this Spring? Check out some great…
A New Year for EHR Adoption Resources
EHR Adoption Resources Expand for 2012 The new year has brought about some recent changes and developments to HITECH Answers. Â The most significant of these…
Understanding EHR Contract Terms
How are EHR contracts getting more difficult? Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Author: Keys to EMR/EHR Success EHR contracts contain an increasing array of complicating structures…
NCSL ranks healthcare among state legislators’ top 2012 priorities
Tom Sullivan Editor at Government Health IT The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) on Tuesday published its annual listing of top priorities for the…
If Health IT in 2011 Were a Movie
We end 2011 with one more list. If Health IT in 2011 were a movie it would be… Mission: Impossible. Naysayers said widespread EHR adoption was…
The End of Google Health
Google Announces End of Google Health Product I got my email recently to remind me about my Google Health account. Last June, Google announced they…
Health IT Lists and Trends
Top 10 Lists for Health IT It is that time of the year again when we look back and sort out the good and bad,…
Availability of Medicare Data for Performance Measurement
Final Rule Released on Medicare Data Claims Last week CMS published the final rule on how Medicare claims data can be released and used. Part…