The 8th Pillar of the Patient Centered Medical Home

The Patient Centered Medical Home (PCMH) model of care is built on seven principles. Seven is a lucky number in some cultures, but if you ev...

Is Meaningful Use Too Successful?

Approximately a quarter million clinicians and hospitals have signed up for Meaningful Use incentives to date . Of those, almost a hundred t...

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...