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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CCHIT’
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 »
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 [...]
CCHIT has a Seat at Table – for Now
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Privacy, Security, standards, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS, HITECH Act, ONC. ARRA on August 14, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Today, the HIT Policy Committee met once again, this time to hammer out what the term “certified EHR” means within the context of future ARRA reimbursements to physicians and hospitals. Chilmark sat in on the discussions, here is our assessment of what transpired. (See yesterday’s post, below, as to why the Certification issue is critical.) [...]
CHIP Chimes In: Let’s Build an iPhone Platform for HIT
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, mHealth, policy, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, iPhone, meaningful use, ONC on June 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Just received an email this afternoon from Children’s Health Informatics Progam (CHIP) here in Boston announcing the release of a workshop derived document: Ten Principles for Fostering Development of an “iPhone-like” Platform for Healthcare Information Technology. Not sure if release was serendepidous or not but timing is interesting in light of yesterday’s release of Draft [...]
Meaningful Use by June 16th
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, certified EHR, HIMSS, meaningful use, ONC on June 5, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Yesterday, at an mHealth event in Washington DC, Michael Fitzmaurice of AHRQ stated: We’ll tell the world what meaningful use is on 6/16. Referring to the next meeting of the ONC Policy Committee.If this indeed comes true, Chilmark will feel pretty good about this as it is something we predicted back on April 30th. Many [...]
Usability & Adoption of EHRs
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, standards, tagged CCHIT, HHS, HITECH, Stimulus, usability on May 29, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Policy makers keep wondering why physicians do not readily adopt EMR/EHR software. Under ONC’s first head, David Brailer, it was decided that a big problem was a lack of certification of EMR software to insure that it worked as advertised, which led to the founding of CCHIT. Funny thing though – despite CCHIT’s best efforts [...]
CCHIT Attempts to Set Record Straight
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, tagged CCHIT, Dr. Kibbe, HIMSS, Mark Leavitt, Markle Foundation on May 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Mark Leavitt, the leader of CCHIT has apparently had enough and has gone on the offense with a recent post defending the organization he represents and attacking naysayers, particularly Dr. David Kibbe who was recently quoted in a Washington Post article. Is Leavitt’s post a desperate act from an organization who seems to be coming [...]
Blumenthal’s Views = Lock-down on HIT Innovation?
Posted in Google, Microsoft, PHS, policy, standards, tagged CCHIT, certification, EHR, HIPAA, HITECH Act, ONC, Stimulus Bill on March 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Prof. David Blumenthal, the new head of ONC, makes some disturbing comments regarding the Stimulus Bill, HIT and HITECH Act in his article in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). The article is not completely off-base as he does a very good job of describing the basics of the HITECH Act, its intentions and [...]
HIMSS-CCHIT Controversary Continues to Simmer
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, policy, tagged AHIC, CCHIT, HIMSS, HITECH Act on March 9, 2009 | 8 Comments »
As most of you well know, a certain Calvin Jablonski liked to comment here at Chilmark Research taking some pretty hard shots at the EMR certification organization, CCHIT and the close relationship between CCHIT and the vendor organization HIMSS. Jablonski’s comments raised the ire of the HIMSS executive suite leading to a calling out of [...]
