Category Archives: health reform
Don’t Blink! Today’s Electronic Patient Record Systems are Tomorrow’s Horse-and-Buggies
By Peggy Salvatore Given the geometric pace of change, the electronic health record systems of today are horse-and-buggies rapidly in the making. The pace of recent change means that your typical EHR will not experience obsolescence from the amount of … Continue reading
Accountable Care is Accountable to Whom?
By Peggy Salvatore In the never-ending quest to balance the cost-access-quality triangle, the healthcare system led by the federal government has pursued many variations of payment incentives. Pay more to get them to do it. Pay less to get them … Continue reading
The Man and the Mission: Data Integrity and the First CMS Chief Data Officer
By Peggy Salvatore The changes at CMS have been stunningly breathtaking over the past few months, particularly those related to health IT. The top two biggies are personnel and mission refocus at the very top. Those high-profile changes signaled this … Continue reading
Roadmap to replace MU? MY, MY!
By Peggy Salvatore Last week, the eHealth Initiative officially launched its 2020 Roadmap initiative to “enable coordinated efforts by public and private sector organizations to transform care delivery through data exchange and health information technology,” its website states. Its foci: … Continue reading
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The Best Laid Plans…Laid Waste? ONC and CCHIT and the future of health IT
With some fanfare, in 2004, President George W. Bush (Bush, the younger) made the national rollout of health information technology a federal government priority when he established the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT. Dr. David Brailer was … Continue reading
Apple Hints At Putting The “Meaningful” Into Meaningful Use
What’s so “meaningful” about Meaningful Use anyway? The short answer is, “Today, very little. Tomorrow, everything.” And that is the problem with the meaningful use requirements as they exist. By its very definition, patient data is information that should have … Continue reading
If You Buy a Donut, You May Hear From Your Doctor
With respect to HIPAA, has the law of unintended consequences devolved to its illogical conclusion? Continue reading
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