John Halamka
In my summary of the March HIT Standards Committee meeting I mentioned the new ONC Interoperability Framework and the related RFPs. Here's the detail I promised in my previous blog about ONC.
Yesterday's HIT Standards Committee included important discussions about NHIN Direct and a new Interoperability Framework supported by several ONC RFPs.
It's my nature to question authority. Whether it's religion, politics, or even my local administrative leadership, authority figures must earn my trust. Earning that trust is not easy.
Every year, I describe my top 10 impressions from HIMSS. Here's my summary of the event for 2010.
On February 17, the HIT Policy Committee held an important meeting to discuss its recommended revisions to meaningful use.
In my recent Top 10 EHR Barriers blog, I identified usability of EHR software as a key issue. It appears that NIST, with ARRA funding and ONC guidance is doing something about it.
John Halamka, MD, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconness Medical Center in Boston, asked his students at Harvard School of Public Health to develop these lists of barriers to EHR implementation within their organizations.
Several folks have asked - will the iPad revolutionize healthcare? The answer is Yes and No.
At BIDMC, our clinical systems are written in a hierarchical database called Cache - a very fast transactional system with great reliability and disaster recovery features.
When Stage III of Meaningful Use is fully implemented in 2015, what will our healthcare system look like? Here's my future forward look at the changes in the provider, patient, payer, and researcher experience five years from now.