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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

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. Indeed, the imperfection of the program was a motivating factor for me to join the government in 2011. You made a mistake. ” I disagree.

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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. 3:10 New ONC EHR certification proposal and continued questions about Meaningful Use Stage 2. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Because the 2011 certification criteria and Stage 1 meaningful use requirements were too vague about the data that would be used to measure quality. Quality measures are still proposed without consideration for the data that EHRs have captured. Why was this?

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. We saw an opportunity in 2011 and 2012 to build a brand new EHR, and in particular, emphasize the provider experience. There are major established players in the EHR space.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

Let’s just start by letting Patients use the tools of our time to share their information with their Doctors , and let Doctors use these tools to move beyond the 2000 year old office visit only model of care. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians.