The HIT Job
By Bob Wachter, MD I’m well aware that a good fraction of the people in this country – let’s call them Rush fans – spend their lives furious at the New York Times. I am not one of them. I love the Grey...
View ArticleBox Picking Up Where Google Health Left Off
By Missy Krasner You probably saw some of the headlines last week where Box announced that is supporting HIPAA and HITECH compliance, signing Business Associate Agreements, (BAAs) and integrating with...
View ArticleHacking HIPAA
By David Harlow Join me in attacking an endemic problem in health care today by Hacking HIPAA. I am crowdfunding the development of a new legal form to be used on and after September 23, 2013 to allow...
View ArticleAs the Debate Over Obamacare Implementation Rages, a Success on the IT Front
By Ashish Jha, MD Just a little over four years ago, President Obama, in his inaugural address, challenged us as a nation to “wield technology’s wonders to raise health care’s quality and lower its...
View ArticleReplacing Farzad
By Anonymous HIT Insider In the wake of the National Coordinator’s announcement that he is departing, there has been a flurry of tweets, blog posts, impromptu online polls, and conjecture about the...
View ArticleA Troubling Strategy at Health IT Week
By Adrian Gropper, MD Health IT Week demonstrated a double barrel strategy to segregate patient information from provider information. Providers already have the power to set prices and health IT plays...
View ArticleAnother Law Raising the Cost of Health Care
By Josh Tenzer While there has been much focus lately on the ways in which ObamaCare is chilling the growth of private business, we should not overlook the continuing deleterious effects of the one...
View ArticleRapid Advances in Health IT Adoption and Use in the Safety Net
By Michael A. Wittie Federally funded health centers are making strides adopting and using electronic health records (EHRs) to treat some of the nation’s poorest and most at-risk patients since the...
View ArticleEpic Systems’ Open Platform Will Bring U.S. Health Care Delivery Into the...
By STEPHEN M. KRUPA Epic Systems, the market leader in electronic health record software (EHR), recently made a quiet but potentially transformative announcement that may finally shake the healthcare...
View ArticleIs Obamacare working? Where’s the data?
By FRED and ALMA TROTTER As President Obama’s healthcare reform unfolds in the last years of his administration, critics and supporters alike are looking for objective data. Meaningful Use is a funding...
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