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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ARRA’
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 »
Kick Starting HIEs: What Meaningful Use Asks for, What Feds are Willing to Pay
Posted in HIE, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act on February 11, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The release of draft Meaningful Use (MU) requirements at the end of December, finally provides clarity to what will be required of providers receiving ARRA funding under the HITECH Act to meet the 2011 objectives. Even though there are 25 specific requirements, the health information exchange (HIE) requirements were scaled back significantly from the original [...]
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 [...]
IBM Strengthens Healthcare Play, Picks up Initiate
Posted in EHR, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, tagged acquisition, ARRA, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, Oracle on February 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
This morning, IBM announced that it will acquire leading healthcare Master Data Management (MDM) vendor, Initiate for an undisclosed sum. The healthcare IT (HIT) sector is white hot right now so it is likely IBM paid a pretty penny for Initiate, the clear healthcare market leader in Master Patient Index (MPI) technology. Combining Initiate sales [...]
RHIO Failure: CalRHIO Goes Belly-up
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, CalRHIO on January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment »
The much ballyhooed Health Information Exchange (HIE) in the state of California, CalRHIO, has raised the white flag, dismissing its troops and sending home its arms supplier (Medicity). Despite its founding five years ago, support of some significant organizations (e.g., United Health Group, Cisco, HP, California Hospital Assoc., etc.) spending some $7M to date and [...]
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 [...]
Quiet for the Holiday Break
Posted in EHR, policy, tagged ARRA, CMS on December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Will be quiet here at Chilmark Research as I take a break to be with family in the western offices of Chilmark Research. Though I’ll be skiing as much as conceivably possible, in the early mornings before the lifts open or evenings, if I have any energy left, I’ll check the news, various sites keeping [...]
Looking Back: 2009 Forecast Assessment
Posted in CCR, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, SaaS, telemedicine, tagged ARRA, forecast, HITECH Act on December 15, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A common practice among analyst firms such as Chilmark Research is to make annual predictions of what is in store for the coming year. Chilmark will be making its own predictions for 2010 in the next couple of weeks. Unfortunately, what most analyst firms do not do is reflect on their previous predictions and assess [...]
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 [...]
