Opportunity for HIT Vendors to Do Good

Yesterday, I found an email from Health and Human Services (HHS) in my inbox highlighting a new initiative where the “Obama Administration ...

EHR Certification 2014 Edition

As the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released their proposal for Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements, the Office of the ...

Moving Up the Escalator to Stage 2

The eagerly awaited Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) on Meaningful Use Stage 2 has been finally released in a sprawling 455 pages docu...

Trust in the Machine

Enigma Machine We talk about trust a lot these days. Trust is one of those things that the scarcer it becomes, the more you find yourself th...

Arguments for a Universal Health Record – Part II

All animals can exchange information when in proximity to each other. Humans advanced this useful exchange to occur when the interacting par...

Arguments for a Universal Health Record

We passed the one thousand mark on products certified as EHR technologies for ambulatory care and the five hundred mark for inpatient care, ...

Commedia dell'Arte

"Accountability is something that is left when responsibility has been subtracted." -- Pasi Sahlberg This was the year when Americ...