Millions of American consumers flocked to internet retail in the 2000s, as cloud services grew and web design blossomed. By the time the ACA was passed, a first generation of online HIXs had laid the IT groundwork.

Ed Larsen looks at the challenges of C-CDA within both meaningful use stage 2 and the Transitions of Care initiative, and comes to "expect ongoing tension between optionality and conformance."

In a pilot program, nurse care managers take the time that physicians don't have to understand what patients with chronic and multiple conditions need. The model could very well be a blueprint for others to follow.

Have we gotten EHRs all wrong? Are we off the mark?

No longer a pilot in any regard but name, the Nationwide Health Information Exchange is ready to enter a new phase as a non-federal, nonprofit entity enabling public-private interoperability and data exchange.

ONC anticipates this year establishing HIE building blocks, including provider directories, certificates for authentication and rules of the road for the NwHIN Exchange.

Temporary EHR certification program will end with publication of final rule for meaningful use stage 2 in late August, ONC says

The super registry would list patient registries in the model of ClinicalTrials.gov, which follows use of new therapies for research.

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