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HIMSS: The Garden State and ACOs
February 9, 2012 | Thomas S. Keefe, MA, FHIMSS
Thomas Keefe, HIMSS senior director of regional affairs, shines a light on emerging accountable care organizations in Camden, Newark, and Trenton, NJ.
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Mostashari anticipates 'big win' in HIE in 2012
February 1, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Standards, identity authentication, rules of the road and provider directories should finally come together this year to spur health information exchange.
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Government virtualizing servers, largely missing desktop opp
January 31, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
Savings could grow by $26 billion between now and 2015 on the server-side, but are federal, state and local agencies leaving money on the desktop?
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HIMSS: Docs hold accountable keys to care leadership
January 30, 2012 | Justin Barnes
Physicians and providers can take defined steps toward becoming an Accountable Care Organization, be that under the CMS program or in a private fashion.
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Chopra resigns from White House
January 27, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Known for his high-octane enthusiasm, Aneesh Chopra was instrumental in bringing developer competitions to the federal government to accelerate innovative applications.
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CMS' Tavenner presses to scale innovations by 2014
January 27, 2012 | Mary Mosquera
Tavenner pushes for reform efforts started by her predecessor Berwick and expresses urgency to get the work done in the remaining 24 months.
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Wish list 2012: Top 10 HIT changes for the year ahead
January 24, 2012 | Michelle McNickle
Wendy Whittington, CMO of Anthelio Healthcare kicks off her wish list with the hope for a great emphasis, among the private sector and government alike, on ONCs Federal Health IT Plan.
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HIMSS: Public health and PHRs - don't be left out
January 20, 2012 | Noam Arzt, PhD, FHIMSS
A new day is coming, in which the availability and accessibility of electronic health information drives the use of personal health records that, in turn, provide more comprehensive data to public health agencies.
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The HIT of ACOs, part 3: Tapping IT to put patients front-and-center
January 18, 2012 | Dr. John Loonsk
Much of health IT falls flat from the patient's perspective.
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Commentary: Why private HIEs are more sustainable than public exchanges
January 6, 2012 | Patty Enrado
The enterprise HIE model offers a lot that public healthcare information exchanges simply cannot, most notably faster time-to-market and long-term viability.
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Predictions 2012: Consumers engage, drive HIT
December 30, 2011 | Marc Perlman
Personal accountability for health will fuel health IT investments, HIE models will mature, as some bottlenecks will persist.
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HIMSS: 2011 in review
December 28, 2011 | HIMSS Digital Office
HIMSS Digital Office Task Force reflects on some of the year's most insightful articles and actionable guidance. Looking toward 2012, many of these same themes appear in the New Year.
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Ten Things to Ask Your SAAS Vendor Before Entering the Cloud
October 12, 2011 | White Papers
This whitepaper provides tips based on best practices gathered through analysis of the industry and direct experience with thousands of cloud deployments—including tips from CIOs, program and project managers, directors of IT, engineers, developers, and administrators in various industries and various size companies
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Best Practices to Deploy ECM Technologies: Ensure Decisions are Made Based on all the Information, not a Portion of it
October 11, 2011 | On Demand Webinars
In this Web seminar, learn firsthand from five healthcare organizations how, after integrating Perceptive Software enterprise content management (ECM) products, they are realizing cost and time-saving benefits enterprise-wide. The customer panel will share lessons learned and best practices for deploying ECM technology with their business and health information systems.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 17, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
HIMSS12 coming right up. Meaningful use stage 2, ICD-11, EHRs, PHRs, and public health in one local election.
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Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 2, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT: A triptych of 2012 predictions about ACOs, HIE, and ICD-10, all rather bold.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
January 5, 2012 | Tom Sullivan
GOPers fear of healthcare questions, with an eye on New Hampshire a lesson learned in Iowa, HHS accomplishments, HIPAA 5010, CMS Innovation Advisors, and more.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 23, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Clueless doctors don't like sharing, HHS names Pioneer ACOs while other health org's remain uncertain about the model, federal health IT spending skyrockets, and Southeast Minnesota's use of NwHIN protocols to the benefit of both providers and patients.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
December 1, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Soaring EHR adoption? How sequestration might impact health IT, slight attestation delay, and the VA's CIO on VLER momentum.
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Why the 3-month HIPAA 5010 enforcement delay is benign
November 22, 2011 | David A. Feinberg, CDP
A look at who might really be affected by CMS decision to not enforce HIPAA compliance for 90 days beyond the deadline, with the four scenarios to consider starting on January 1, 2012.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 10, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
OCR audits, PHI for HIEs, HIX IT, the value of electronic medical data in the theater of war, and more.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
November 3, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
ACO, EHRs, HIE, disconcerting poll results about HIPAA 5010, and an explanation of why privacy compliance need not be so scary. Those and more.
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Top 5 takeaways from annual MGMA show
November 1, 2011 | Miriam Paramore
Meaningful use, HIE, ACOs and more were abuzz at the Medical Group Management Association's annual conference.
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Editor's Desk: This Week in Government Health IT
October 27, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Syndromic surveillance even patients can use, ACOs of course, EHRs, ICD-10, HIPAA 5010 and Watson.
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Are you feeling 10 percent healthier this year?
October 24, 2011 | Steve O' Keefe: My Cup of IT
With salaries rising far less than health insurance premiums, perhaps it's time for something new, such as creativity, innovation, and sanity in care delivery.
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Living document: Our ACO coverage all in one place -- updated 11/4/11
October 21, 2011 | Tom Sullivan
Our own coverage of the final accountable care organization rule, as well as articles from Healthcare IT News, Healthcare Finance News, and EHRWatch.
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