National HIT Week
National Health IT Week 2010 One Voice, One Vision: Transforming Health and Care In its fifth year, the collaborative forum known as National Health IT…
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Public Comment Period Ends
The public comment period for both the CMS NPRM and the ONC IRF ended on March 15th. The ONC and CMS are now sifting through…
Recovery Room 3/28/10
There has been much to report about this month. First, everyone is getting back to business after this year’s HIMSS conference in Atlanta at the…
Is your sales force HITECH ready?
In talking with some HIMSS exhibitors last week the issue of prepping sales teams to confidently talk to prospects about meaningful use, CMS incentives and…
Blumenthal’s Keynote at HIMSS
ONC David Blumenthal spoke to a full house on Wednesday as the keynote speaker at the HIMSS Conference in Atlanta. He said he was a…
December HIT meetings
The HIT Policy committee met last Tuesday for the final meeting before interim rules should be released. CMS is still on track for the Notice…
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 8/16/09
The HIT Standards Committee will meet on Thursday this week. The three workgroups Clinical operations, Clinical Quality, and Privacy & Security are slated to present…
More than Just Meaningful Use
While everyone was waiting patiently for the revised recommendations on meaningful use, the real drama was going on with the Certification and Adoption workgroup. Two…