Over the past few months, I’ve been in England, China, Denmark, New Zealand, and Canada. Each of them is rethinking their healthcare IT strategy and is not entirely satisfied with past progress. I’m often asked by senior government officials to help harmonize IT strategy at the country level. That I can do. I’m also asked to discuss the US Presidential campaign, but that defies rational explanation. I frequently say that healthcare IT issues are the same all over the world. Here’s a few common observations..
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Obama Backs 15 of 18 VA Commission Recommendations
Aisha Chowdhry | FCW | September 6, 2016
President Barack Obama is backing 15 of the 18 recommendations made by the Commission on Care to improve service delivery at the Department of Veterans Affairs. However, he is resisting a bid to revise the way the VA's health care system is run. The recommendations are included in the commission's final report...
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Obama Budget Includes New Fee For EHR Vendors
Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | April 11, 2013
Once again, the federal electronic health-record incentive payment program could take a financial hit due to government budget cutting. This time, EHR developers are being asked to take one for the team. Read More »
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Obama Reelection Doesn't Alter Complexity Of EHR Adoption
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | November 8, 2012
The reelection of President Barack Obama won’t change the intricate realities underway in the trenches as physicians and practices perform the difficult task of replacing paper with electronic health records (EHRs). Read More »
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Obama’s Surprising Answer on Which Part of Obamacare Has Disappointed Him the Most
Sarah Kliff | Vox | January 9, 2017
There was this moment, about 50 minutes into our interview with President Barack Obama last week, that genuinely surprised me (and surprised other health care journalists, like David Nather, too). My colleague Ezra Klein had asked the president a question about which part of the law had overperformed his expectations, and which part of the law had underperformed. The president gave a surprisingly frank assessment of something his administration has tried, and failed, to do: Get doctors off paper and on to digital medical records...
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Object Management Group Announces Business Process Modeling for Health Workshop on September 27
Press Release |
Object Management Group (OMG) |
August 23, 2017
The Object Management Group® (OMG®), an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium, today announced it will host the Business Process Modeling for Health Workshop at the Hyatt Regency New Orleans Hotel on September 27 from 9:00 am – 5:00 pm. Registration costs $149 USD and is open to the public...The Workshop will feature experts from the healthcare field and business modeling who will explain how OMG business process modeling (BPM) standards can improve the portability of clinical processes and workflows...
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Office Of The National Coordinator For Health IT Tackles Pressing EHR Issues
Sheri Porter | AAFP | June 12, 2013
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, which was enacted as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, is designed to stimulate the adoption of health information technology in the United States. [...] Read More »
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Ok Chatbot: What Is Your Value for Humanitarians?
Emily Aiken and Joseph Agoada | ICT Works | July 20, 2017
Whether or not you are aware of it, you have probably interacted with a chatbot – whether checking your finances, making a travel reservation, or even ordering a pizza. But what opportunities exist to use chatbots to assist humanitarians and development practitioners? Chatbots are conversational computer programs that can read message questions, interpret responses, and perform actions or make decisions, without any assistance from a live person on the other end...
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OMB Okays VA, DoD iEHR Data-Sharing Plan
Molly Bernhart Walker | FierceGovernmentIT | July 15, 2013
During a July 10 joint hearing of the House Veterans Affairs and Armed Services Committees, VA and Defense Department officials laid out plans to continue pursuing two separate electronic health record solutions with the ability to interoperate in the "near term." Read More »
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On the Need for a Universal Health Record
By Bruce L. Wilder, MD MPH JD | January 1, 2017
The current path of progress of the EHR, with its concentration on “meaningful use,” and an intellectual property regime that does not fully exploit the capacity for innovation by end-users is approaching an evolutionary dead-end. It is time to treat the EHR as what it should be: an integral part of medical care that has limitless potential for maximizing the use of information acquired in the provision of health care, and not an impediment to optimal care and a bugaboo for the physician. Read More »
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On the Road
By John D. Halamka, MD | November 2, 2016
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ONC Advancing Blue Button, CDS Standards Efforts
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | September 24, 2012
Developers in an ONC voluntary community are beginning to drill down into what will be required to automate the Blue Button feature to exchange patient health information at the consumer’s request under different scenarios. Read More »
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ONC Aims To Crack Barriers That Slow HIE In 2013
Mary Mosquera | Government Health IT | December 21, 2012
At the dawn of 2013, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT will launch a number of activities that aim to unleash growth in health information exchange and establish rules of the road in coordination with other governance groups. Read More »
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ONC And FHA Area Call For Participants
Press Release |
HIMSS, FHA, ONC |
November 13, 2012
Is your organization successfully using nationally recognized standards to securely share patient data with other organizations? Demonstrate your successes within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Federal Health Architecture (FHA) area in the HIMSS 2012 Interoperability Showcase! Read More »
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ONC Announces Blockchain Challenge Winners
Press Release |
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services |
September 1, 2016
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today announced the winners of the Use of Blockchain in Health IT and Health-related Research Challenge. A Blockchain—most commonly associated with digital currency—is a data structure that can be timed-stamped and signed using a private key to prevent tampering. ONC received more than 70 submissions from a wide range of individuals, organizations and companies addressing ways that Blockchain technology might be used in health and health IT to protect, manage, and exchange electronic health information...
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ONC Beacon Program Highlights EHR Adoption, Use Challenges
Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | February 10, 2016
A research program out of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) offers insights into how communities use health IT and EHR adoption to achieve the triple aim of better care, better costs, and overall better patient health. Launched in 2010, the Beacon Community Program provided $250 million in grants to each of 17 communities to examine how these communities adopt EHRs and other health IT to better their overall healthcare structure. In an after-the-fact analysis of the program, NORC at the University of Chicago found that many of these communities faced similar challenges that other healthcare systems face when adopting their health IT...
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