Medicine and Technology

AUGUST 13, 2013

Register for the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit : Accelerating the Blue Button Movement The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) invites you to join us in Washington D.C. The 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit will bring together Federal leaders including: Todd Park, U.S. Washington, D.C.,

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Medicine and Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The 2013 iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City will bring together over 250 C-level, physician, practice management and IT decision-makers from North America’s leading provider organizations and physician practices. iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City, NY Sept 17-18, 2013 Learn more here: [link].

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 24, 2013

HIMSS 2013 is coming up March 3-7 in New Orleans. This year’s latest offerings will be infused throughout the education sessions, exhibit hall programming and live-streaming sessions to provide attendees with the latest health IT content and enhanced networking opportunities. I hope to see you there!

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 3, 2013

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. How far have we come?

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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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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber: 2013 edition. NantHealth launches Clinical Operating System – biggest of big data startups – with $1B (Feb. Body + biology + behavior: Intel exec explains how technology is making N=1 care possible (Feb.

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Docnotes

AUGUST 15, 2016

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. The health IT certification program is the core of ONC’s responsibility to the nation.

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