John Halamka news from FierceEMR
NewsMeaningful Use Stage 2 a high priority on HHS regulatory agenda
The next few months are going to be chock-full of new regulations affecting electronic health records systems. That's the scoop from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' latest regulatory Read more...
States, vendors collaborate on data connectivity specifications
The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, a collaboration among seven states, eight electronic health record vendors, and three health information exchanges, has agreed on several standard health data Read more...
Beth Israel's self-developed EHRs receive certification
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston has become the first hospital to have its own self-developed EHR technology certified as a complete EHR under a new Certification Commission for Health Read more...
Halamka, Microsoft's Crounse tout PHRs as 'electronic medical home'
The promise of personal health records is that they will put patients firmly in control of their own health data and make patient-centered care truly possible. Despite what you may read elsewhere, Read more...
e-Rx growth accelerates, and DEA ruling could spur more adoption
Just as predicted at the end of 2008, e-prescribing volume nearly tripled in 2009, according to prescription transaction network Surescripts. And the growth has picked up this year. Surescripts Read more...
People are the top barrier to EHR adoption, Halamka says
Why don't more clinicians use EHRs? Is it because of cost? Usability? Resistance to change? Concerns about privacy and security? It's all of the above, and more, says Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Read more...
Leading CIOs question timetable, specificity of meaningful use proposal
Uber-CIO Dr. John Halamka, of CareGroup Healthcare System in Boston, is known for his workaholic tendencies, mostly in the name of improving healthcare through information technology. After talking Read more...
Standards Committee moves into guidance phase
It's getting to be crunch time for the federal Health IT Standards Committee, which is moving from studying previous work in the area of standards to producing implementation guidance for the Read more...
HITSP makes changes to meet stimulus requirements
The Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel, seemingly a forgotten entity since the founding of the federal Health IT Policy Committee and Health IT Standards Committee to advise HHS on Read more...
MA leads the way in national EMR effort
National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal is a Harvard man; so is health IT's Energizer Bunny, Dr. John Halamka. The architect of President Obama's health IT plan was Harvard economist Read more...
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