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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,
Meaningful use is like 'fire, ready, aim" in absence of HHS guidance
This may be the best characterization we've heard of the current HHS strategy for providers to achieve meaningful use of health IT and thus qualify for federal EMR subsidy payments: "It's a bit like,
Verizon introduces cloud-based HIE that will standardize data
Despite ongoing concerns with the security of cloud computing, offsite data storage is booming in healthcare, and companies with lots of storage space are jumping into the market. The latest entrant
New Mexico HIE meets federal planning criteria for $7M implementation grant
New Mexico says it is the first state to meet all the criteria of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for strategic and operational planning for health
Battle for hearts, minds and data heats up
Two weeks ago, I wrote about the negative public perception that EMRs continue to have , then asked readers how to convince people that EMRs are indeed safe. One regular commenter suggested keeping
It's time to revisit biometrics for patient ID, security
Last week in this space, I wrote about the importance of a master patient index or other form of reliable patient identifier as key to making health information exchange work. Wouldn't you know,
caBIG success highlights need for proper patient ID
White House chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra was trying to encourage meaningful use of health IT last week by playing up some success stories with health information exchange in the federal
HIMSS10: IBM marches into HIE after closing Initiate deal
It may have been a coincidence that IBM closed on its acquisition of Initiate Systems just as HIMSS10 got underway in Atlanta last week. We're certain that it was no coincidence that IBM introduced a
Indian Health Service beefing up EMR to meet meaningful use
Even federal EMR systems apparently fall short of proposed "meaningful use" requirements. The Indian Health Service is upgrading its Resource and Patient Management System EMR to support health
IBM to purchase Initiate Systems
IBM, which long ago abandoned plans to develop an electronic medical record, is making a deeper push into health information exchange by agreeing to acquire Initiate Systems. Privately held Initiate
