Over a 1,000 exhibitors, some 30,000+ attendees and I come away from HIMSS, again, thinking is this all there is? Where is the innovation that the Obama administration i.e., Sec. Sebellius and Dr. Blumenthal both touted in their less than inspiring keynotes on Wednesday morn? Maybe I had my blinders on, maybe I was looking [...]
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HIMSS’11: Setting Expectations
Posted in ACO, Analytics, EHR, eRx, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, tagged athenahealth, Carefx, HIMSS'11 on February 25, 2011 | 25 Comments »
What Do Future MU Requirements Mean for mHealth, If Anything?
Posted in consumer health, eRx, HIE, mHealth, PHR on February 1, 2011 | 2 Comments »
What are some of my favorite things? “Raindrops on roses” and “whiskers on kittens” definitely make the list. How about the task of combing over a large chunk of new Meaningful Use (MU) proposed requirements? … Not so much… though necessary if one wants to understand how the HIT and mHealth markets will develop. Will [...]
Acquisitions Creating White Hot Market for Healthcare IT
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, tagged acquisitions, ARRA, healthcare IT, HITECH Act, meaningful use on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since the beginning of 2010 there has been a series of acquisitions in healthcare IT (HIT) market, which recently culminated in one of the largest, IBM’s acquisition of Initiate. Triggering this activity is the massive amount of federal spending on HIT, (stimulus funding via ARRA which depending on how you count it, adds up to [...]
Part One: Stage One Meaningful Use Winners
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, HL 7, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, CMS, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use, ONC on January 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
As required by legislation in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), HHS/CMS released rules for the meaningful use of certified EHRs before the end of 2009 (late the afternoon of Dec. 30th). Others have already written plenty on what is actually stated in these rules, therefore, let’s take a look at the potential winners [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, CMS, HITECH Act, meaningful use on December 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Late yesterday afternoon, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who holds the big bucket of ARRA incentive funds for EHR adoption, released two major documents for public review and comment that will basically define healthcare IT for the next decade. The first document, at 136 pgs, titled: Health Information Technology: Initial Set of [...]
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 [...]
Meaningful Use Draft is Tough to Swallow
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged ARRA, CPOE, HITECH, meaning, meaningful use, ONC on June 16, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Today, the Meaningful Use (MU) workgroup of ONC’s HIT Policy Committee presented its recommendations for what physicians and hospitals will need to demonstrate to obtain ARRA funding for “certified EHRs.” Chilmark listened in on the presentation and deliberations of the meeting and also downloaded the slide deck, following is our initial assessment. The MU workgroup [...]
Making “Meaningful Use” Well… Meaningful
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, Stimulus on April 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The market for EHRs has stalled as potential buyers await the outcome of the government’s definition of “meaningful use” and “certified EHR” both critical for determining Stimulus reimbursement. Of course the recession has not helped things for EHR vendors with many a hospital and practice seeing fewer patients, smaller endowments (thanks a bunch Madoff), and [...]
“Meaningful Use” Usual Suspects to Gather and Define
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, policy, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, Stimulus Bill on April 24, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In the incestuous world of the healthcare sector, HHS is bringing together the usual suspects in HIT to discuss what exactly “meaningful use” means within the context of the ARRA HITECH Act. The meeting will take place next week, April 28 & 29, in Washington DC. Meaningful use is right up there with “certified EHR” [...]
