John Halamka
Tuesday at 10 am, CMS and ONC released the final rules that will guide electronic health record rollouts for the next 5 years. Here's my analysis of the key changes in the Final Rule.
Medical devices are an increasingly important part of care delivery. Discussion of medical device issues has become part of the mainstream press such as last week's Boston Globe article about their security.
Institute of Medicine President Harvey Fineberg and HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius launched the Community Health Data Initiative on June 2 at an IOM Forum in Washington, D.C. The initiative represents the hard work of many people, especially HHS CTO Todd Park.
Yesterday, the HIT Standards Committee held their May meeting via teleconference and discussed several important topics.
BIDMC implemented Computerized Provider Order Entry in 2001. As we approach the ten year anniversary of our implementation, it's great to see the recent press on the Stanford study demonstrating a 20% decrease in mortality after implementing CPOE at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital.
This week was filled with special HIT events convened by Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. Yesterday, the Governor's Healthcare IT Conference began with a panel of CEOs.
Although healthcare reform has its supporters and detractors, healthcare IT reform - the use of technology to improve the quality, safety and efficiency of healthcare throughout the country - has broad support from all stakeholders.
Every Tuesday, the NHIN Direct Implementation Group holds a teleconference to update the entire team on the progress of the technical workgroups. This week, we discussed the completed addressing specification.
I recently planned a speaking engagement and was warned to avoid healthcare reform commentary - too controversial and too emotionally charged. Regardless of your politics, some aspects of healthcare reform are not controversial. Here's a list of health information technology tactics included in healthcare reform.
Over the past 5 years, I worked with HITSP and the HIT Standards Committee to select standards for exchanging clinical summaries. But what exactly is a clinical summary?