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Mostashari to Brailer: 'Tremendous movement' ahead for Health IT

National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, M.D., predicted 40 percent of primary care providers will have a basic electronic health record by the end of this year and that half will have

Verizon, Health Evolution Partners team to push health IT innovation

Health Evolution Partners (HEP), the healthcare investment company launched by former National Coordinator for Health IT David Brailer, M.D., entered into a partnership with Verizon Connected

British EHR fiasco shows U.S. may be on the right track

Is it possible that the Obama Administration is doing something right in its ambitious health IT program? The U.K. National Health Service's failed, decade-long effort to implement a nationwide

More federal funding needed for public health IT infrastructure

Back in 2004, when President George W. Bush launched the federal health IT initiative that has now morphed into Meaningful Use, it was clear that the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, served as a

AMIA 2010: 'Five to 10 years away' always seems five to 10 years away

Health IT always seems to be five to 10 years away from radically transforming what passes for a healthcare system in this country. If you recall, Dr. David Brailer's national health IT strategy was

AHRQ: Practices need more motivation to track, improve population health

Go back to the 2004 strategic plan offered by Dr. David Brailer, the first national coordinator for health IT, and you'll find that improving population health was one of the four major goals of a

Is ONC being stretched too thin with insurance-exchange enrollment project?

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, formed in 2004 as kind of a bully pulpit to rally the troops behind health IT, has widened its responsibilities over time.

Committee wants to recast NHIN as set of policies

The Nationwide Health Information Network should be recast as a set of policies and standards to facilitate exchange of health data rather than a physical network connecting databases, a federal

SPOTLIGHT: Brailer 'pretty impressed' with meaningful use proposal

Former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer is "pretty impressed" with the HHS' proposed criteria for meaningful use of EMRs published Dec. 30. According to Brailer, who now runs an

Brailer 'pretty impressed' with proposal on meaningful use

Former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer is "pretty impressed" with the proposed criteria for meaningful use of EMRs that HHS officials published Dec. 30. According to Brailer, who now