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Hope to see you at #HIMSS13 New Offerings and Programming for Health IT Professionals

Medicine and Technology

HIMSS 2013 is coming up March 3-7 in New Orleans. Technology mandates and quality healthcare have finally come together in a way that we’ve never seen before, and in response, we’ve created specific content around the coming trends in 2013, with a particular focus on meaningful use, mobile health and consumer engagement.”

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All my HIMSS coverage in one place

Meaningful HIT News

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5). CMS clarifies MU2 hardship exemptions.

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Reflections from the HIMSS/AMDIS Physicians' IT Symposium at #HIMSS13

Medicine and Technology

I am in New Orleans attending the 2013 HIMSS conference. Let me highlight a few key points and reflections I jotted down as I sat through several presentations about Meaningful Use (MU) and the future of clinical informatics: Health IT is about improving clinical workflow efficiency and patient care.

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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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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

The company supports provider organizations participating in the BPCI program , having gone live in Fall 2013. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Michael Nissenbaum – President & CEO, Aprima.

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More Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

The company supports provider organizations participating in the BPCI program , having gone live in Fall 2013. I discussed the current state of the EHR with Michael Nissenbaum of Aprima. The EHR has always been a data collection tool, a mechanism for data aggregation. Michael Nissenbaum – President & CEO, Aprima.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Since I was Acting National Coordinator for about the same duration as Vindell will serve, (Fall of 2013 – after Farzad Mostashari departed, and before Karen DeSalvo arrived) I’ll offer some thoughts from one who has been in his position. Certification. Why was this?

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