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A new focus: How to become empowered patients

Meaningful HIT News

The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. The Meaningful Use program remains unchanged for hospitals.

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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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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

However this solution is very hard to use if one is using programming tools more common on lightweight systems such as Mobile. So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”.

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