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A new focus: How to become empowered patients

Meaningful HIT News

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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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away. How Will the Market Respond?

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When sponsored CDS is a crime …

Docnotes

I talked on occasion with my counterparts at other health IT companies and they told the same stories: tempting dollars, questionable ethics. I first met Ryan on a trip to San Francisco in ~ 2012, when he invited me to come to Practice Fusion to speak with the team about Health IT certification and the meaningful use incentive programs.

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Fred Trotter on Data Journalism and Cybersecurity — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Fred is a health care IT veteran, founder of CareSet Systems and the DocGraph Journal and an alum of multiple successful technical startups. He’s the co-author of O’Reilly’s first health IT book, Hacking Healthcare, and the 2015 recipient of the Healthcare Data Liberator of the Year award.

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Fred Trotter on Data Journalism and Cybersecurity — Harlow on Healthcare

Health Blawg

Fred is a health care IT veteran, founder of CareSet Systems and the DocGraph Journal and an alum of multiple successful technical startups. He’s the co-author of O’Reilly’s first health IT book, Hacking Healthcare, and the 2015 recipient of the Healthcare Data Liberator of the Year award.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

For readers who haven’t tracked my career – I’ve worked in health IT for nearly 30 years – and (yes) I agree wholeheartedly that robust IT is an essential part of a healthy New York. . Goal #4: Creating Statewide Digital Health and Telehealth Infrastructure. Too many. . Too many organizations. Too many targets. .