Over the past year, I’ve heard the frequent comment that banks successfully deployed interoperability over 10 years ago, but the healthcare industry lags far behind. Often the comment is followed up with a statement that we can go to any bank and they can instantly access our financial information, but each physician I go to [...]

….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 [...]