EMR
Sharing Clinical Data, the First Step in Health Provider Collaboration
HealthCampBoston was an engaging one-day meeting of ideas and vision around overcoming the major challenges and false starts on the initiatives to improve healthcare. People with a wide variety of backgrounds were a part of the unconference, in which the attendees drove the agenda and discussions. These unconferences are now international, from London to Azerbaijan, and the next one is in May and promises to be no less stimulating than this one on Tuesday in Cambridge was.
Wal-Mart, eClinicalWorks Change the Game
With all the talk of government stimulus and the Obama Administration’s mandates around healthcare, it’s the private sector making the big splash in HIT today with Wal-Mart partnering with Dell and eClinicalWorks to deploy low-cost EHR solutions to physicians.
A recap of reactions to the Healthcare Stimulus in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA)
Two weeks after President Obmama signed the ARRA into law, there has been much discussion of the merits and pitfalls of the approach that is being taken by the government to stimulate progress in healthcare. Here are some thoughts in response to the discussion…
What will come from this period of HITECH ambiguity?
Of the interesting topics discussed during Thursday night’s Transforming Healthcare Summit 2009, I found a few simple words to be the most intriguing – “certified” and “meaningful use”. These are of course the terms used in the recently signed Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, to determine if a provider’s EMR implementation enables them to collect their share of the $19.2 Billion stimulus.
