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  • Morning Headlines 8/7/13

    Morning Headlines 8/7/13

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    Farzad Mostashari, M.D., ONC Chief, Stepping Down Farzad Mostashari, M.D, will step down this fall after serving two years as the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. Reduction in federal funding will result in job cuts at many Vermont hospitals Fletcher Allen Health Care (VT) will add 280 jobs over the next 10 years despite…

  • What’s Next for ONC? Dr. Mostashari’s Departure and the Next Fork in the Road

    What’s Next for ONC? Dr. Mostashari’s Departure and the Next Fork in the Road

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    The announcement from HHS on August 6 that Farzad Mostashari, M.D. was preparing to leave his position as National Coordinator for Health IT this fall was very surprising. What’s important now is for the next National Coordinator to be as strategic and persuasive a leader as he has been. The announcement from the Department of…

  • The August HIT Council Meeting

    The August HIT Council Meeting

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    On Monday, the HIT Council met to review progress on health information exchange in Massachusetts. Here’s the presentation we used. You’ll see that we’ve sent 1,349,083 transactions through the MassHIway. Increasingly we’re seeing subnetworks – aggregations of clinicians in regions of the state – joining the MassHIway to send transactions to other subnetworks. We’ve heard…

  • SPOC A Secure and Privacy Preserving Opportunistic Computing Framework for Mobile Healthcare Emergen

    SPOC A Secure and Privacy Preserving Opportunistic Computing Framework for Mobile Healthcare Emergen

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    info@thebookmyproject.com http://www.thebookmyproject.com/ Solution de gestion de stock et de prestations en milieu hospitalier (hôpitaux, cliniques, EMS). Video Rating: 0 / 5

  • Mostashari’s Greatest Hits

    Mostashari’s Greatest Hits

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    I often found myself impressed with the way Dr. Farzad Mostashari could bring the focus of conversations about e-health regulations or standards development back to the larger picture of improving care and patient engagement, and he did so in a way that seemed inspirational to those doing the heavy lifting in this field. As journalists,…

  • Florida Board of Medicine considers raising EHR, paper copy rates

    Florida Board of Medicine considers raising EHR, paper copy rates

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    The Florida Board of Medicine is considering changing its rules to allow providers to charge higher rates for copies of medical records, both paper and electronic. read more Source: Florida Board of Medicine considers raising EHR, paper copy rates

  • Thank You Farzad

    Thank You Farzad

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    This morning, National HIT Coordinator Farzad Mostashari resigned. His letter to ONC staff was profound. As I read it, I felt a lump in my throat. He will be missed. How much do I respect him? I have not worn a tie since Y2K, except for a bow tie last year in honor of Farzad.…

  • Patients with EHR access happier, more loyal to docs

    Patients with EHR access happier, more loyal to docs

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    Patients who access their medical records electronically through online portals are more satisfied with their doctors and more loyal than non-electronic health record users, according to a new study published this week. read more Source: Patients with EHR access happier, more loyal to docs

  • Globalizing Health Data is Impossible

    Globalizing Health Data is Impossible

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    I keep hearing people say over and over that we just need to have a standardized set of data and interfaces for healthcare. This is one of the most unrealistic comments I hear and it is said all the time. This will just never happen. In a recent LinkedIn conversation, Susan Hirst offered this insight…

  • EHR and HIT News for July 6th

    EHR and HIT News for July 6th

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    Today’s EHR and HIT news includes updates from PeriGen who have integration news, as well as funding news from HIPAA compliant cloud computing platform provider ClearDATA. PeriGen Announces First Integration of Its PeriCALM Perinatal Solution With CPSI’s Enterprise-Wide EHR at Taylor Regional Hospital PeriGen, the global leader in applying real-time clinical decision support to perinatal…