Admittedly, our predictions for 2011 were modest. Most of those predictions were logical and did not take a whole lot of imagination to envision thus our success rate, 7 “hits”, 2 “toss-ups” and 2 “misses was quite high. And though are biggest accomplishment, predicting Blumenthal’s departure just a few short weeks before he actually announced [...]
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Predictions 2012: Not What You Think
Posted in ACO, Analytics, CCD, CDA, Cloud Computing, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, mHealth, Security, standards on January 11, 2012 | 8 Comments »
A Tale of Two Medical Records
Posted in CCD, CCR, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, PHR, standards on March 4, 2011 | 11 Comments »
This is a tale of my nearly year-long attempt to integrate my family’s medical records from a small outpatient provider (MIT Medical) into my Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect EMR. From 2008-2010 my family was living Boston where I was getting my MBA at MIT Sloan. We had been long-time Kaiser members before we moved to Boston [...]
SureScripts, A Defacto NHIN
Posted in CCD, CCR, HIE, policy, tagged Epic, Kryptiq, SureScripts on October 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday in New Orleans, SureScripts announced a new line of business: Clinical Interoperability. Leveraging their existing ePrescribing solution platform, currently serving over 200K physicians nationwide, and combining it with the technology stack of messaging solution provider Kryptiq, SureScripts will offer providers, EHR vendors, HIEs and other stakeholders the opportunity to securely share clinical information across [...]
Making Sense of the NHIN
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, HIE, RHIO, tagged NHIN, NHIN Direct on April 30, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The National Health Information Network (NHIN), which was the previous ONC head’s (Kolodner) top priority, or at least seemed that way is a concept that has its advocates and detractors. To date, we have been more of a detractor as the original NHIN was a very heavy, top down approach by the federal government to [...]
Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, policy, tagged HIT, meaningful use on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding theme of comments regarding Meaningful Use (MU) rules (these were due by COB on 3/15) is to relax the rules, particularly regarding reimbursement and clarify other requirements of MU to ease the burden on [...]
Analysis: MediConnect Acquires PHR Vendor, PassportMD
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged acquisition, MediConnect, PassportMD on January 12, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Yesterday, MediConnect announced that it had acquired Florida-based PHR vendor, PassportMD. The acquisition is a good move by MediConnect as it will allow them to extend beyond just collecting records on behalf of consumers (it offers such a service on Google Health), but now provide consumers with a solution to present such records in an [...]
Achieving Meaningful Use: View from the Trenches
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, policy, tagged certified EHR, HITECH Act, meaningful use on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since the Meaningful Use and Certification proposed rules have been released, have read numerous articles, posts and tweets to gain some perspective on the ramifications of these rules on the market. The best piece I’ve read by far is that from Beth Israel Deaconess’s (BIDMC) own CIO, John Halamka. As many already know, Halamka has [...]
Top 10 Things to Consider When Choosing a PHR
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHP, PHR, Privacy, Security, standards, telehealth, tagged biometrics on December 17, 2009 | 4 Comments »
At some point, hopefully in the not so distant future, physicians, clinics and hospitals will reach for the ARRA/HITECH Act carrot, adopt a certified EHR and demonstrate meaningful use. One proposed requirement for meaningful use that will likely pass through the CMS rule making process is the requirement allowing citizens to receive their personal health [...]
Pushing ONC to Act on Consumer’s Behalf
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, PHP, PHR, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, legislation, ONC, PHR systems, Rep Kennedy on September 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Just about anything you hear coming out of HHS’s ONC office is with regards to digitizing the doctor’s office. This is somewhat understandable as there is some $36B in ARRA funding just waiting for the rules on “meaningful use” (MU) to come out of CMS sometime in December. Until those rules are released, the EMR [...]
