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 [...]

One of the doctor’s we work with forwarded us this neat article from the Economist that has a good overview of HIT across the globe. Its pretty similar to a bunch of stories that have been in the paper lately, except for this great little graph of EHR dollars over the years. Its the strongest [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

The afternoon started off with a session to learn about how CHCs can receive maximum benefit from the ARRA / HITECH Stimulus. We work with a number of CHCs and they have always struggled to stay alive, let alone pay for an EHR. We’re excited that the stimulus provides so many opportunities for CHCs.
The first [...]