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.

Meaningful Use 28

Meaningful Use Medicare Health Information Health IT 28

Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I talked on occasion with my counterparts at other health IT companies and they told the same stories: tempting dollars, questionable ethics. Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. Could they resist?

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals EHR Life Science Pain management 40

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52