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The Political Economy of Health Information Technology
By Mike Miliard Healthcare reform is arguably the hot-button political issue of our time. And with the Supreme Court locked and loaded to decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act this summer, it’s a...
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Why Healthcare Is Different (No, Really)
By Andrew Oram Working in the health care space has forced me to give up many hopes and expectations that I had a few years ago. Forgive me for being cynical (it’s an easy feeling to have following the...
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Heady Times for Health Care in the Cloud
By Jonathan Bush In 1990, when I got my first health care job driving ambulances, not a soul in the New Orleans EMS department had a cellphone. Not even the head of the service. The mayor, his chief of...
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Healthcare Needs a Quaking Aspen
By Albert Santalo For the majority of my career I have been obsessed with creating technologies to modernize our largely dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system. To me, it is very clear that the...
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Why We Won’t See EHR Consolidation Anytime Soon
By John Moore All too frequently I get the question: When will we see the EHR market consolidate? Not an unreasonable question considering just how many EHRs there are in the market today (north of...
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The EHR “Final Rule” (Finally)
By Ashish Jha, MD Six months to the day after the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the “preliminary rules” for Meaningful Use, the final rules are in. For clinicians and...
View ArticleLinking Meaningful Use and HIT Sector Consolidation
By Barrett Lynner Since January, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have implemented incentive programs to drive meaningful use of Electronic Medical Records (EMR) technology –...
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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...
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Box 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...
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Hacking 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...
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As 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...
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Replacing 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...
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A 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...
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Another 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...
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Epic 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...
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Is 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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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...
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Box 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...
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Hacking 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...
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