The final rule for meaningful use stage 2 signaled to providers and health IT vendors the expectations for health information exchange and involving the patient to improve individual and population health.
With 900 primary care docs signed up and eight of the state's qualified health centers operating EHRs, participating providers are already benefiting from Vermont's health information exchange.
After some starts and stops with Vermont Health Connect's IT plans, the state has finalized a contract with CGI to build the health insurance exchange state health officials hope to use as a stepping stone to a single payer system in 2017.
Leon Rodriguez, director of the Office of Civil Rights, foreshadows what the office will be focusing on moving forward when it comes to HIPAA audits and enforcement.
Scott Lundstrom, group vice president of IDC Health Insights, says that states should expect the final health insurance exchange deadline to be pushed back and calls the federal-state model a “tiger trap.”
If you read John Halamka's blog discussing the November HIT Standards Committee meeting, he spent a good deal of time talking about Green CDA. Much of the discussion I'm seeing now has to do with the use of "Green CDA" on the wire.
This past week I had the pleasure of traveling, along with MedTech Media Editorial Director Rich Pizzi, to Amelia Island, Fla. for the inaugural HIMSS Leaders & Innovators conference.
To say the past few months have been a whirlwind of activity in the Office of Standards and Interoperability (OSI) would certainly be an understatement.
Within the past month, the Occupy Wall Street movement has moved to other political regimes. A new website, "OccupyHealthcare.net: Working together for change," has been drawing Americans' attention to the current healthcare system in this country, and how together we can address common concerns.
ICD-10 as the unpopular guy at a party, achieving revenue neutrality during the conversion, golden rules of EHRs, consultancies dust off crystal balls for 2012, and ICD-11.
I've been tweeking the HL7 eMeasures DSTU to support Query Health this week and last to support a declarative, implementation independent, standards-based expression of queries.