As with the last shuttle mission making its re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere yesterday, I am re-entering the world of healthcare IT after an extended family vacation in the wilds of Alaska. No, I did not see John Halamka up there, it is after all a VERY BIG state, but I did get the chance [...]
Posts Tagged ‘ONC’
Re-entry into Healthcare
Posted in consumer health, EHR, mHealth, PHR, tagged Cerner, FDA, meaningful use, mHealth, ONC, Stage 2, WebMD on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Remember: Technology is but a Tool
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, Security, standards, tagged HITECH Act, meaningful use, ONC on March 29, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, Chilmark Research participated in the CRG conference, Driving Change Through Managed Care IT from Provider Payments to Quality, which was held in New York City. Despite having a title that no one will be able to remember, the overall theme of the event and presentations therein gave one a bird’s eye view into what [...]
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 »
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Meaningful Use & the PHR Market
Posted in EHR, HIE, PHR, policy, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, ONC on July 17, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Yesterday’s ONC HIT Policy Committee meeting was a big one. Over the course of many hours, the committee went from hearing revised recommendations for Meaningful Use, to recommendations from the HIE workgroup and lastly recommendations regarding certification processes for EHRs. Over the next week or so we plan to do separate write-ups on each of [...]
CONNECT: The Feds Answer to Health Info Exchange
Posted in EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Privacy, standards, tagged Exchanges, HHS, NHIN, ONC on July 1, 2009 | 8 Comments »
The feds are beating the CONNECT drum. This week, ONC sponsored a two-day event in DC to begin educating the market as to what CONNECT is and how it may be leveraged to support information exchange. At least that is the impression one had in signing up for this event. In actuality, the event was [...]
