We are excited to announce that TempDev has been named an approved service partner for CalHIPSO. As the Regional Extension Center for California (except LA and Orange counties), CalHIPSO is responsible for helping priority primary care providers reach meaningful use. As an approved service partner, we will be providing our optimization and template development services [...]

TempDev was recently quoted about the ARRA / HITECH stimulus and the recent meaningful use guidelines in Technology Review! Click here to read the article.
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Last Thursday, Dr. Blumenthal announced that meaningful use will be finalized by mid or late Spring 2010. Turns out that often quoted December 31st date is actually for a draft, after which there will be 60 days for comments and then additional revisions.
Frustrated, I went back to the initial enabling legislation in ARRA and found [...]

Practice Fusion recently posted on their blog “An Open Letter to ONCHIT Chief David Blumenthal”. The letter contains some pretty strong language, including that CCHIT and HITSP “…have been overly influenced by the same small group of special interests, and have created at least the appearance of conflicts of interest.” With CCHIT and HITSP having [...]

….we believe most of the measures proposed for 2011 would be difficult to achieve by providers who have not already begun EHR implementations.
In a letter addressed to the Policy and Standards Committees of the Office of the National Coordinator, CCHIT stated that the draft meaningful use provisions for 2011 are overly ambitious. CCHIT also performed [...]

Ready, set, STOP.. in the mad dash to meaningful use, I feel we’re stuck at the starting line.
As I mentioned in my last blog, we’ve been working on a lot of big changes at TempDev – the first of which will be announced early next week. As we were making these changes, the draft definition [...]

A few weeks ago, I spoke with a reported from Americal Medical News (the AMA’s member newsletter). She had read our white paper about the EHR stimulus and called to ask me a few questions about how physicians can best maximize their stimulus income.
We’ve been so busy with some exciting new projects (more information coming [...]

For the final education session of HIMSS09, I attended a session entitled “Developing a Plan to Operationalize the Results of the Economic Stimulus”. The session was led by Bruce Fried and Lauren Mack, both health care attorneys with Sonnenschein.
Fried started off by stating that the current ARRA/HITECH monies are just a down payment and he [...]

John Halamka, CIO of Harvard Business School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (plus a myriad of other titles) and author of the popular Life as a Healthcare CIO blog, lead an interesting session on HIE and the ARRA/HITECH stimulus. There is about $2 billion available for HIE in the stimulus with much of the [...]

The second afternoon session was the best one I’ve attended so far. A three person panel consisting of an attorney, physician and EHR vendor discussed the economic stimulus from a private practice perspective.
Up first was the attorney, Ed Shays (whose name I might be unfortunately misspelling), who provided a great overview of the key terms [...]