Wow, is Chilmark Research getting popular! Today, we received a letter from the law offices of Jackson Lewis LLP who are acting on behalf of HIMSS. It appears that this website has gained a certain notoriety through comments left by a “Calvin Jablonski” (search and you’ll find them) on a number of posts. As it [...]
Posts Tagged ‘CCHIT’
What is HIMSS Afraid of?
Posted in Privacy, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS on February 25, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Sweet Rewards for HIT Vendors with Final Stimulus Package
Posted in EHR, eRx, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, tagged CCHIT, CMS, CONNECT NHIN, HITEACH Act, NIST, ONC, Stimulus Bill on February 13, 2009 | 22 Comments »
We can hear the champagne bottles popping in legacy healthcare information technology (HIT) vendors offices across the country as they celebrate what is arguably the biggest windfall in their history, the HITECH Act and its $19.2B, that is tucked into the Stimulus Bill which President Obama will likely sign on Monday. Unlike other aspects of [...]
HR 1: Stimulus Package and HIT
Posted in EHR, policy, Privacy, standards, tagged CCHIT, certification, HIT, HITECH Act, HR 1, innovation, ONCHIT, stimulus package on January 26, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Just finished reading/scanning HR 1, the House Stimulus bill focusing on the HIT section, to which some $20B greenbacks will flow. This Bill just went just the Appropriations Committee and will likely pass the full house later this week. The HITECH Act (HIT for Economic and Clinical Health), is massive at some 190 pages, beginning [...]
Cloud Computing in Healthcare, A Presentation
Posted in consumer health, Dossia, Google Health, health portals, HealthVault, Microsoft, PHP, PHR, tagged CCHIT, HealthVault, LAIKA, MITRE on January 12, 2009 | 12 Comments »
Last Friday, had the opportunity to present to MITRE and their Healthcare Transformation group. This MITRE group is responsible for developing LAIKA, the platform used by CCHIT to validate EMR solutions for certification. Extremely bright group of engineers with some excellent ideas and many good questions over the course of my roughly 1hr presenation. Purpose [...]
HIMSS Joins Auto Industry to Hold Out the Hat
Posted in policy, tagged CCHIT, HIMSS, HIT, HITSP on December 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, the industry group HIMSS released their blueprint for the incoming Obama administration. Quoting the Executive Summary, the blueprint makes the following recommendations (our perspective in italics): Invest a minimum of $25 billion in health IT to help non-governmental hospitals and physician practices adopt electronic medical records (EMRs). Additional funding should be allocated to cover EMR [...]
Leavitt’s Parthian Shot – Consumer Health Privacy Framework
Posted in CMS, consumer health, PHP, PHR, policy, Privacy, RHIO, Security, standards, tagged CCHIT, HHS, ONCHIT, Sec. Leavitt on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As HHS Secretary Michael Leavitt begins packing his bags making way for incoming Sec. Daschle, he is leaving a number of legacies behind such as a very checkered success record with the NHIN (RHIOs continue to rise and fall with grant funding sources) still lacking traction, a Medicare system still rife with fraud and abuse [...]
CCHIT is Looking for $$$
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged adoption, CCHIT, HIT on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A significant portion of CCHIT’s funding has come from the government, though they have been able to shrink that reliance to roughly 50% or so of operating costs through the fees they charge EMR vendors to “certify” their products. But federal funds run out in March 2009 and CCHIT may not have a guarantee for [...]
Privacy & Consumer Education
Posted in consumer health, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged CCHIT on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
There has been more written, commented upon and just general noise around the whole topic of privacy and medical records that it is often difficult to separate what truly is important and reason for concern and what is not. Time and again, privacy is raised as one of the leading issues with regards to personal [...]
PHR Certification Looking for Input
Posted in consumer health, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged CCHIT, CMS on September 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Now, I am no fan of the whole CCHIT initiative to develop a certification process for PHRs as this market is far too immature. But continue on they do and whether I like it or not matters little for the simple fact that a gargantuan organization representing millions, (hint their acronym is CMS) will demand [...]
PHR Recommendations from Task Force Appear Painless
Posted in consumer health, EMR, PHR, Privacy, Security, tagged CCHIT, Interoprability on July 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
CCHIT announced yesterday that the blue ribbon PHR Advisory Task Force has released their recommendations for the follow-on PHR Workgroup to use in developing certification guidelines for PHRs. CCHIT will then use these guidelines to certify PHRs in much the way they now are certifying EMRs. Apparently, simply having the HON code is not enough [...]
