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Expensive EHR Implementations Threaten Hospital Credit Ratings

Julie Bird | FierceHealthFinance | January 7, 2014

Huge capital outlays for  electronic health record (EHR) implementations are threatening the credit ratings of some large medical systems by tying up large amounts of cash and temporarily reducing profits, Becker's Hospital Review reported. Read More »

Fast Could Lead To Furious Over EHR Meaningful Use

Editorial | American Medical News | February 18, 2013

CMS’ schedule for physicians to show electronic health record proficiency is too ambitious given system limitations and issues that haven’t been addressed from stage 1. Read More »

Federal CTO Todd Park Taps the Private Sector to Drive Innovation

Joseph Marks | NextGov | July 27, 2012

In mid-2010, the already frenetic Todd Park was in overdrive. President Obama had just signed the Affordable Care Act into law, the most significant reform of the American health care system since Medicare. It was Park’s job to figure out how government could use technology to make the law’s implementation as smooth and fruitful as possible. Read More »

Feds To Open Data Access In A Big Way

John K. Higgins | E-Commerce Times | May 29, 2013

One aspect of the feds' new Open Data Policy presents both an opportunity and a challenge. It specifically calls for improved interoperability as a way to advance open data implementation. "Right now, standards setting for interoperability seems to be nobody's job -- and the federal government has the opportunity to take the lead here," said Hudson Hollister of the Data Transparency Coalition. Read More »

Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center

Stephanie Bouchard | Healthcare Finance News | May 2, 2013

In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »

Financial Woes At Maine Medical Center: Reading This Blog Might Have Saved Them Millions Of Dollars, And Prevented Massive "Cost Saving Initiatives"

Staff Writer | Health Care Renewal | May 4, 2013

In a memo to its employees last week, one of Maine’s largest health systems said it has suffered an operating loss of $13.4 million in the first half of its fiscal year. Read More »

First Step To Successful EHR Use Is Evaluating Paper Workflow

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | September 3, 2013

Every good cook knows that a finished meal is only as good as the ingredients you start with, and the same adage holds true for EHR implementation, a messy recipe if ever there was one. Read More »

Flawed Health IT: Whose Fault Is It?

Jeff Rowe | Government Health IT | September 18, 2012

We spent National Health IT Week peeking through the eyes of others at possible health IT futures.  So we'll start this week with the views of someone who points to a radically different future for health IT in large part by claiming that current health IT options are pretty miserable. Read More »

For HIX Success, First Fix Government IT And Set Expectations

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | January 20, 2014

Health insurance exchanges should strive for several goals to prove their mettle and recover their public perception, according to the founding director of the Massachusetts Health Connector, an exchange that was once a national model and is now struggling to function. Read More »

For Some Practices, EHRs Aren't Worth It

Paul Cerrato | Healthcare IT News | October 17, 2013

Looking to sell your medical practice? Don't waste time and money upgrading your IT. Read More »

Have Best-Of-Breed EMRs Lost The Hospital Battle?

Ken Congdon | Healthcare Technology Online | July 18, 2012

Is a best-of-breed or enterprise/single vendor EMR implementation the best approach for your hospital? This topic has been the focus of much debate ever since EMR software came into existence, and both sides have compelling arguments. Read More »

Health Chaos Ahead

David Brooks | New York Times | April 25, 2013

It was always going to be difficult to implement Obamacare, but even fervent supporters of the law admit that things are going worse than expected. Read More »

Health Information Errors Cited Among Top 10 Health IT Hazards

Susan D. Hall | FierceHealthIT | November 6, 2012

Three of the 10 top health technology hazards cited in a report from ECRI Institute deal with errors in information management. Read More »

Health Reform’s Problems Run Deeper Than A Glitchy Website

Philip Caper | Bangor Daily News | November 14, 2013

Serious problems with the websites created by the Affordable Care Act continue, and probably will for a long time. Although frantic efforts at incrementally improving them are being made by the Obama administration, and some sites are working better than others, they are a long way from working well. Read More »

HealthCare.gov And The Inevitably Digital Future Of American Governance

Zachary Karabell | Nextgov | November 4, 2013

The Obamacare blame game is in full swing, and without other news to fill pages and airtime, it’s likely to continue for some time. Attention is shifting from the myriad problems with the official website HealthCare.gov, and toward the health plans that are being canceled, even though President Obama promised that they would not be. Read More »