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- Decision on meaningful use due this week
- Decision on meaningful use due this weekIncorrect citationDana, the Healthcare Renewal posts you linked were mine ("an effort in New Jersey to require CCHIT certification" and "failure to be hired by vendor NextGen in 2004").Klepper did write the post at http://www.thehealthcareblog.com/the_health_care_blog/2009/06/the-health-industrys-achilles-heel.html .Also note I wasn't "incensed" by my failure...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Workforce management, training and certification, Healthcare Renewal, NextGen, CCHIT, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-06-15
- Open source gets hearing but no action at HIMSS
- The fact that CCHIT heard out open source respectfully is good. But at this point it can easily dismiss open source concerns by just punting them down the road, past the delivery of the Obama stimulus money. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: CCHIT, CCHIT Certification, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-04-13
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- CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened
- Republicans up to no good again.Another buck for doing nothing.CCHIT HappensThats it.We bought a package that was CCHIT certified, one of our requirements.We had plenty of other requirements for an EHR, but they wanted to make sure it was certified by someone else just incase the goverment came up with...
- Tags: CCHIT, eHR
- Discussion threads 2009-11-11
- Blumenthal committee throws CCHIT a bone
- The main focus seems to be on setting rules that will guide certification, whether CCHIT is involved, and assuring a level playing field, something CCHIT was often charged with tilting in favor of companies who were part of the HIMSS trade group. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Quality, Training And Certification, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- Are health IT vendors trying to pull a fast one?
- Not sure about your last question, i guess he would be the best person...to ask.I think that sage, GE, siemans and mckesson do have the experience necessary to make good decisions, but these are also the guys who make software for the healthcare field.Maybe their vested interest also includes self...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Quality, HIT Standards Committee, Kibbe, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-08-10
- HITRUST to seek government certification authority
- HITRUST to seek government certification authorityHITRUST - More Than Another System CertificationThank you, Dana, for helping bring clarity to these important issues. HITRUST believes that establishing trust in our healthcare system is critical for the successful adoption of electronic health records and other health information systems. Toward this end there...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, E-health, Quality, HiTrust, health care
- Discussion threads 2009-07-25
- HITRUST to seek government certification authority
- Unlike CCHIT, which had asked for this authority last spring resulting in a big controversy HITRUST is not asking to be the exclusive certification authority. Only, no one else is doing the job right now, and Nutkis doesn't see why anyone would want to. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Certification Authority, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Deadlines absent in final meaningful use definition
- The health advisory committee under David Blumenthal took out deadlines for installing health IT under the "meaningful use" guidelines approved yesterday, then named a committee on certification balanced between proponents and opponents of giving the job to the industry-created CCHIT organization. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Deadline, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Human Resources, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- CCHIT fate could be decided today
- CCHIT fate could be decided todayUnbelievableHonestly at a loss for words aside from: unbullievable ...Can a large organization keep up?Medicine moves rather fast and I find it hard to believe that CCHIT can keep pace with innovation.But then that might be the objective.And I have a concern when an organization...
- Tags: Strategy, Brian Klepper, Self-Interest, CCHIT, CCHIT fate
- Discussion threads 2009-07-16
- Health IT reformers look forward smiling
- By focusing the definition on what software does, they feel, the committee kept the health IT industry's HIMSS trade group, and the CCHIT certification group it created, at arms-length. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Quality, Human Resources, Business Operations, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-06-18
- Obama military deference threatens health reform
- Obama military deference threatens health reformWhen you see the examplesthe VA, Medicare, MedicaidDoes anybody believe the government can manage universal health care?Oh please.... we implemented an EHR system that uses both.. in 6 months.They use MySQL backend, web standards for communication and some closed source for a front end.They are...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, health care, Medicare, government
- Discussion threads 2009-06-11
- Will Obama surrender to health IT lobby?
- The CCHIT "certification" documents are complex, its process is complex, and the result of following it is to exclude all new ideas, and open source, from health IT. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Strategy, Human Resources, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2009-05-21
- Certification the tip of the health reform spear
- Certification the tip of the health reform spearIt's difficult to move into new areasWhen the money controls the market entry.I'm in agreement with the need to displace the old approach as it certainly doesn't help us, as individuals or doctors or clinics/hospitals.One factor of interest to me is that the...
- Tags: CCHIT, certification, FDA, health care, ResMed
- Discussion threads 2009-05-06
- Open source gets hearing but no action at HIMSS
- Open source gets hearing but no action at HIMSSIt's a Time to DanceFor more than a decade I have been a strong proponent of open source in healthcare. If I were still an open source EMR vendor I would be dancing in the streets.The FOSS community made several attempts...
- Tags: F/OSS, CCHIT, compliance, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-04-14
- Google Health faces its first test
- Google Health faces its first testRE: Google Health faces its first testYesterday, the steam on this picked up. It made the Boston Globe and I caught it a few hours after his post. We have a coding issue here which involves mapping as well as how prior visits...
- Tags: Vertical industries, HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Google Health, health care, Google Inc., first test
- Discussion threads 2009-04-13
- Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?
- Will Obama health IT committee give open source a chance?Please someone SAVE us!Please will someone save us from our socialist gov...Pretty sad...Pretty sad when the only way open source can get anywhere in life is to hope that people are forced not to choose anything else.Pathetic, really...The socialist canard no...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, information technology, open source, socialist, government, Obama
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- To CCHIT or not to CCHIT is the question
- No single vendor or certification process can build an IT infrastructure that both enables innovation and distributes it universally. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Information Technology, Health Care, CCHIT, Healthcare, Open Source, Strategy, Management, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Medicare tests multiple PHRs including Google
- Medicare tests multiple PHRs including GooglePassportMDThank you Dana, I agree with you. As one of the companies selected for the Medicare pilot PassportMD has many opportunities to provide Medicare beneficiaries significant value that a "Google" could not. And although Google looks to control the "lions share" of the opportunity. We...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Medicare, PassportMD, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-13
- The real argument against electronic health records
- The real argument against electronic health recordsDo no harmWhen Doctor's make critical care decisions, they are influenced by a variety of things.HMOs influence how Patient treatment is rendered and indirectly outcomes through referral tracking.A Health Care Provider gains 'full exposure' for Malpractice. HMOs staffed by humans have 'limited liability'...
- Tags: HEALTHCARE, Benefits, Insurance, punitive damage, e-health, electronic health record
- Discussion threads 2007-12-04
- Specialty formats burn EMR market
- Specialty formats burn EMR marketDon't worry... the solution is in the works. New equipment won't put out human-readable results; it will only be accessible via EMR transfers. Thus, paper won't work any more.As for the Tower of Babel effect, it's headed the same way office documents are: Microsoft's...
- Tags: Quality, EHR Project Failure, EMR, CCHIT
- Discussion threads 2007-11-06
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