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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘HIT’
CCHIT is Looking for $$$
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged adoption, CCHIT, HIT on November 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
HIT Market Projections ala Obama
Posted in consumer health, policy, telehealth, tagged AHIC, CMS, healthcare IT, HIT, Obama on November 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The pundits are out beginning to comment on what the Obama administration will mean to the healthcare IT market. One of the leading HIT spokespersons, John Halamka made his predictions earlier this week. Today, I came across a fairly lengthy article in CNN Money. At first thought of critiquing both, found the CNN article to [...]
Healthcare IT, Politics & the Election Tomorrow
Posted in policy, tagged healthcare, HIT, Senator John Kerry on November 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
We do not like to venture down the path of healthcare policy discussions for the simple reason that there are far too many people far brighter and knowledgeable than us on the subject who we defer to, and besides, where would our differentiation be in what is already an extremely crowded market of political & [...]
Frisco Bound
Posted in consumer health, tagged financial impact, Health 2.0, healthcare, HIT on October 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fly out today to the Health 2.0 conference which begins tomorrow. With some 1,000+ attendees, this event will certainly be buzzing, but what we are most interested to learn is what is really working, both pre and post financial bust. One look at the agenda and you can clearly see that there is a tremendous [...]
Thoughts from Across the Pond
Posted in consumer health, Google, Microsoft, policy, tagged Cisco, Connected for Health, EU, HIT, WebMD on October 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The European division of Cisco sponsored the publication of an EU-centric healthcare report, Connected Health. A collection of 10 essays from across Europe and even Dubai, the report provides some interesting concepts and ideas regarding technology (IT) adoption and use. To quote the German Commissioner for Telematics, Rienhold Mainz: “Patient-centred care implies seamless healthcare delivery [...]
EmTech Session on EMRs
Posted in consumer health, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, tagged adoption, Amalga, Azyxxi, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, eClinicalWorks, HHS, HIT, MedStar, P4P, quality on September 26, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
If you have read previous posts this week, you know that I was attending MIT’s EmTech conference. Event is a focused on technology and innovation of all stripes bringing together some pretty big names to discuss where we are today and where we are headed. For the first day, I had one continuous and long [...]
Two CIOs Chime in on HIT & PHRs
Posted in EMR, tagged CBO, healthcare IT, HIT on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s eWeek has an interesting interview with two hospital CIOs, George Conklin, CIO of Christus Health, and Rich Temple, CIO and vice president of IT at Saint Clare’s Health System. Interesting questions with thoughtful answers. And if you are interested in the CBO Report that is referenced in the interview, the CBO Director’s Blog has [...]
Tradition Grapples with Insatiable Demand
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security, tagged CIO, healthcare, HIT on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Dan Nigrin, the CIO from Children’s Hospital Boston set the tone at this morning’s meeting stating what keeps him up at night is struggling with the insatiable demand for HIT among care providers (espeically newer and younger staff members) at Children’s while concurrently dealing with an industry that is so bound by tradition. On one [...]
Golden Fleece Revisited or Here’s What You Get for a Half Million $$$s
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, PHR, policy, RHIO, tagged adoption, Bearing Point, HHS, HIT, NAHIT on May 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Last year I resurrected former Senator William Proxmire’s Golden Fleece Award bestowing this fine honor on the bone-heads in Washington that thought one of the big hurdles to HIT adoption was confusion in the market over 6 acronyms (EHR, EMR, HIE, HIO, RHIO and PHR). Well, after two meetings, several months work and the expenditure [...]
Amalga = Amalgamation
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, Microsoft, PACS, tagged Amalga, Azyxxi, EMR, HIT, Microsoft on February 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Earlier this week, Microsoft announced the release of its new product suite for the healthcare sector, Amalga. Almaga includes the Azyxxi solution, which they acquired from Medstory, and the Global 2000, hospital information management (HIS) solution being used at the medical tourism destination, Bumrungrad International Hospital. A relatively minor announcement in the grand scheme of [...]
