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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

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It’s there to protect us from evildoers. Before Health IT Certification. EHR purchase / deployment / optimization is a multi-year initiative. You don’t want your patients / competitors / peers to know that your EHR doesn’t work as expected. After Health IT Certification. You made a mistake.

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Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition

Meaningful HIT News

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. That session will feature CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and new national health IT coordinator Karen DeSalvo, M.D. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

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The health IT certification program is the core of ONC’s responsibility to the nation. As a product of ONC’s certification program, we now have health IT systems that do what their developers claim they do. If health IT has value (and I believe it does) then this value will be tangible and self-evident to the public.

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