ONC Announces Blue Button Mash Up Challenge
Blue Button Mash Up Challenge Criteria and Eligibility The Blue Button Initiative is an effort to accelerate patient access to their health records. In August 2010 President…
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Health Information Exchange is Real in Stage 2 Meaningful Use
Health Information Exchange in the NPRM ONC Mostashari keeps saying it and I keep quoting it. “We can’t wait 5 years to get standards based…
HIE Answers Health Information Exchange Group
New Group to Focus on Health Information Exchange in Stage 2 A couple weeks ago ONC Farzad Mostashari wrote a post saying this is the…
Debate Over EHR Adoption
Informatics Evidence, Redux William Hersh, MD Professor and Chair Department of Medical Informatics & Clinical Epidemiology Oregon Health & Science University Blog: Informatics Professor About…
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Has Arrived
Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule Announced at HIMSS With all the speculation about when we would hear about the release of the Stage 2 meaningful…
ONC announces new i2 Challenge
ONC i2 Program In December 2010 the America Competes Act was passed in response to President Obama’s call for agencies to “increase their ability to…
Mostashari Weighs in on 2011
ONC Mostashari Chronicles Notable Health IT Developments Dr. Farzad Mostashari took the reigns of the ONC back in April from being the Deputy ONC for…
ONC Healthy New Year Video Challenge
ONC Video Challenge to Engage Patients in Technology ONC announces an open call for entries in the Healthy New Year Video Challenge. If you have…
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…