I recently had the opportunity to speak with Henry J. Feldman, M.D., instructor of medicine at Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC). Dr. Feldman also serves as Chief Information Architect in addition to practicing as a hospitalist at BIDMC. Dr. Feldman discussed BIDMC’s platform-agnostic mobile strategy, whereby clinicians access all [...]
Archive for the ‘standards’ Category
Don’t Rule-out the Mobile Browser
Posted in EHR, EMR, Privacy, SaaS, Security, standards, tagged mHealth on October 7, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Meaningful Use Perspectives & Resources
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged Blumenthal, Halamka, HITECH Act, meaningful use on July 15, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Everyone seems to have an opinion, or at least has written something, about the final Meaningful Use (MU) Rules that were released on July 13th. Of the multitude of posts and articles out there on the net, there the top three to get you started are: 1) ONC Chief, David Blumenthal’s article in the New [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, Innovation Center, meaningful use on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Nearly a year after the HIT Policy Committee’s meaningful use recommendations were approved by ONC chief Dr. David Blumenthal, an extensive comment period that solicited some 2,200 comments, the final Stage One meaningful use rules will be released today at 10:00am. Details for today’s conference call are: WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press [...]
New Leadership for CCHIT – Will it Make a Difference?
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, Dr. Karen Bell, HHS, HITECH Act, ONC on April 12, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The organization that Chilmark Research has had, at times, a trying relationship with, CCHIT, otherwise known as the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology has appointed a dear friend, Dr. Karen Bell as its new leader. Dr. Bell, who I first met while doing research on the PHR market, was instrumental in having me present [...]
Consumer Consent and HIEs
Posted in consumer health, HIE, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged HHS, NHIN, ONC on March 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
One of the thornier issues regarding the establishment of public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) is how to manage consumer consent of personal health information (PHI) sharing. Today, there is no single standard approach across the US. Some states have an opt-in process, others an opt-out. Granularity of data shared, use cases for data sharing, etc. [...]
Relaxing Meaningful Use? Not Really
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Security, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, menaingful use on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
There has been a lot of talk this week in the trade pubs about the HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) meeting on Wednesday wherein the committee recommended a relaxation of meaningful use (MU) requirements. But if one looks closer, the “story” is far deeper and certainly of more significance. If you frequent this site, you already [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Reading the Tea Leaves: CMS to Release MU Rules this Month
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, policy, standards, tagged HHS, HITECH, ONC on December 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The healthcare IT (HIT) industry waits with baited breath for the release of preliminary meaningful use (MU) rules, scheduled for later this month. Why the baited breath? Market has basically stalled as physicians & hospital CIOs hold off HIT purchases awaiting what will actually be asked of them to get those ARRA reimbursement checks. Will [...]
