Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

After years of doing this blog in fits and starts — particularly the two-year gap while I was essentially prohibited by a full-time employer from writing about health IT here or anywhere else but that company’s site — I have decided to refocus on healthcare consumers rather than industry insiders.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

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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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

It’s there to protect us from evildoers. Before Health IT Certification. After Health IT Certification. I was on the developer side of this work from ~2006 – 2010 during the when CCHIT was the only certification path, and then for ONC’s first iteration of certification (2010 – 2011).

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Docnotes

AUGUST 15, 2016

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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