The People’s Advocate at the Supreme Court Bar

H. Bartow Farr, III, Esq. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has finally met its challengers in the highest Court in the...

I Don’t Want To Be Digitized

I live in a bubble where everybody seems to be obsessed with Health Information Technology (HIT). The average man or woman you meet on any A...

Where is Health Care’s Big Data?

The world of health care is abuzz with heated discussions about health information exchange, data liberation and the beneficial consequences...

Parsimonious

I love persimmons with their luscious flavor and their rich exotic texture, but parsimony has nothing to do with persimmons. For the 99% of ...

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...