On January 21, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT announced that Michael James McCoy, MD, would be the department’s Chief Health Information Officer, a newly…
September arrives next Monday, signifying for most the end of summer, which means families with children are starting to settle back into a steady schedule and routine…
The Direct Project’s use is increasing at a rapid pace. The Meaningful Use-required transport standard is easy to use and is finally starting to change the discussion…
Last week the Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report for Congressional Committees titled, “HHS Strategy to Address Information Exchange Challenges Lacks Specific Prioritized Actions and Milestones.”…
Big data, data analytics, and population health management are hot topics in health IT. Actually, big data and data analytics are buzz words in every industry, but…
I had the pleasure of meeting John Traeger in October at Corepoint Connect 13. John works with a number of hospitals and health systems in the Northwest…
Back in June I attended the SiiM 2013 Annual Meeting in the Dallas area. SiiM (Society for Imaging Informatics in Medicine) is RSNA Jr., with the benefit…
The title sounds all sunshine and daffodils, doesn’t it? Create your mission in health IT, how cute. But let’s deal with reality: very few people in health…
Originally published on HL7Standards. Originally published on HL7Standards.A few weeks before we published Dave Chase’s first article for this blog, 5 Survival Strategies for Small to Medium-Sized EHRs,…
Originally published on HL7Standards.com. Originally published on HL7Standards.com.First off, I'm no legal expert, but recently I had an interesting conversation with the director of HIT at Texas Medical…
