This week, the well regarded periodical, Health Affairs published its annual issue that focuses on Healthcare IT (HIT). One of the papers published was authored by ONC, with ONC head, Dr. David Blumenthal listed as a co-author. The paper, The Benefits of Health Information Technology: A Review of the Recent Literature Shows Predominantly Positive Results [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HHS’
3 Questions: A Conversation with Dr. Blumenthal
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged Blumenthal, CPOE, health affairs, HHS, ONC on March 11, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Ramping Up for MU Rules, CMS Launches New Site
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, CMS, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use on June 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new site that is basically an everything you wanted to know about meaningful use, ARRA, the HITECH Act, certified EHRs, etc., but were afraid to ask. This is a reasonable attempt by CMS to get as much information online, in one location, that addresses [...]
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. [...]
The Great Land Grab of 2010 or the Play for State HIEs
Posted in HIE, policy, tagged ARRA, Axolotl, GE Healthcare, HHS, HITECH Act, IBM, Initiate, InterSystems, Medicity on February 25, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The first major distribution of HITECH Act funds occurred a couple of weeks ago when HHS awarded nearly $1 billion for HIT initiatives including $386 million to 40 states and territories to help establish public Health Information Exchanges (HIEs). This represents the lion’s share of the original $564 million allocated for Statewide HIE development under [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Blumenthal Beats HITECH Drum
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged Blumenthal, Health Internet, HHS, HITECH Act, NHIN on November 13, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, David Blumenthal published a very thoughtful post on the HITECH Act as a foundation for information exchange in which he reflected on his own personal experience as a doctor. That experience included the often frustrating realization that he could not obtain a complete longitudinal record of his patients (customers) due to either (or both) [...]
Consumer Preferences: Sharing PHI
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, policy, standards, tagged consumer preferences, HHS on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Last week, HHS sent a notice to a limited number of people in the healthcare space soliciting their comments on a Draft Requirements Document for Consumer Preferences. The Draft seeks to establish a common framework allowing a consumer to define (preferences) how their personal health information (PHI) will be shared within the context of EHRs, [...]
AHRQ’09: Improving with Age
Posted in consumer health, Google Health, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHP, PHR, tagged AHRQ, HHS, patient safety on September 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This year was Chilmark Research’s third AHRQ’09 event. The previous two we attend in 2007 and 2008 left us, how shall we say it… underwhelmed and really did not have much intention of attending this year. But that was before ARRA, before meaningful use, before certified EHRs, and certainly before we were asked if we [...]
