The Other Side of the EHR Mirror

For almost three years now, since the advent of the HITECH Act, and prompted by the exorbitant prices of health care, an animated electronic...

Rationing Our Finite Resources… with Our Eyes Open

Two articles published in the latest NEJM issue are devoted to “our finite resources” and the inevitability of rationing care. First Dr. How...

What’s Up Doc? Medicare Carrots and Sticks

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) of 2010 mandates that certain administrative simplifications should be made to reduce...

NwHIN: Government Governance of Governances

Today, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has released a Request for Information (RFI) regardin...

Meaningful Use Stage 1 - Redux

Escher - Relativity, 1953 The public comments for the proposed rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2 are closing now. After reading the public su...

Big Bad Legacy EHR Products

IBM "cloud" computing - circa 1975 There is no self-respecting innovator in Health Information Technology (HIT) who has not spoken...

Hypothetical: Tofu at the Broccoli Court

The year is 2018 and President Tofu is fortunate to have a majority in both houses of Congress. America elected President Tofu when it becam...