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…
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Introducing MD Blogs
The HITECH Act has introduced many new issues and challenges for the sole practitioner, small group practices, community clinics, rural hospitals, and hospital systems. At…
Funding Plan for Regional Centers
On Thursday, August 27, Dr. Farzad Mostashari of ONCHIT, hosted a web conference for over 1200 participants detailing a new grant program authorized by the…
A Week in Review
For a week that had most of America asking, “what happened to summer?” and getting ready for school, you might think there is very little…
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…
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…
Rural and Community Hospitals
Our rural and community hospitals are finding the good, the bad, and the ugly when it comes to the HITECH Act. There are several media…
How “Meaningful” was this week?
The HIT Policy Committee approved the revised recommendations from the Meaningful Use Workgroup presented at the July 16th meeting. They emphasize details on the 2011…
Meaningful Use Recommendations from HIT Policy Committee
HIT Policy Committee on Meaningful Use Definition .. Two big events this week, no doubt what everyone will be talking about. Monday, Obama will be speaking…