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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

Before Health IT Certification. Before there was certification, Health IT development companies (some people call them “vendors”) created software and sold the software with claims of improved provider productivity, improved public health, and (yup) improved billing (among other impressive capabilities ).

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Submission to the Senate inquiry on My Health Record

Health Intersections

In response to these trends, in 2011 I created the FHIR specification, to allow the use of Web APIs in healthcare. The result of this is that all other health IT projects are forced into the strait jacket of the centralised document store with its limited consent model, or they are de-prioritised and/or unfunded by DOH or ADHA.

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HIStalk Interviews Stephen Brown, Director of Preventive Emergency Medicine, UI Health

HIStalk Interviews

Then I transitioned to University of Illinois in 2011 to start a preventive emergency medicine program. Those are all things that are measurable and that health IT could take an active role in bringing forth. What motivated you to move from a technology and sales career to becoming a social worker?

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The Tech Giants are Coming for Healthcare

Lloyd Price

Embedded in Apple’s Health app, the new feature will bring together medical data from participating hospitals and clinics, as well as from the iPhone itself, giving millions of Americans direct digital control of their own health information for the first time. But how easy will it actually be? Source : [link]