Recovery Room 4/22/10
While most of us were getting through spring breaks and filing taxes, the ONC and its advisory committees have been working overtime. No word on…
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HITECH Grants are Awarded
This month HHS awarded almost $1 billion centering around three different grant areas with money coming from the ARRA. The HITECH Act mandated initiatives to…
Recovery Room 2/7/09
Comments on both the ONC IFR and the CMS NPRM are starting to come in. For the most part, the NPRM comments have been from individuals…
November HIT Standards Committee
The Standards Committee met on November 19th this month. All the meeting materials and presentations can be found on the committee’s web page. This month’s…
Health IT Stimulus Summit, Dell Acquires Perot Systems, National Health IT Week
Our Week in Review posts are now “The Recovery Room” posts. Our idea and hope is to do at least a Waiting Room (upcoming events…
The Waiting Room – week of 9/13/09
The HIT Policy committee will meet this Friday at 8:30am EST. The meeting like always is open to the public. You can participate over the…
Obama’s Health Care Speech
Wednesday evening brought President Obama out to address the Joint Session of Congress upon their return from the summer recess. In an attempt to take…
Recommendations Adopted
On Friday, the HIT Policy Committee had their monthly meeting. The usual suspects were there and the three workgroups along with the Standards Committee’s workgroups…
Governor’s Created Alliance Releases State Guide on HIE
In 2007 the National Governors Association (NGA) created the State Alliance for e-Health, from an ONC contract award, as a collaborative to improve the health…