Cost efficiencies and more effective healthcare services are among the top advantages EHR proponents project when touting the health IT transition. Read »

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) medical centers are now included in the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) Hospital Compare Web site, which measures hospital quality based on outcomes of care. Read »

Is the "meaningful use" race for $30-plus billion of ARRA stimulus funds finally about to get the green flag, or have increasing number of caution or red flags put the race on temporary h Read »

"Blue Button" technology - the ability of patients to download their health data via the Internet - has Read »

CO-REC, the Colorado Regional Extension Center, announced it has signed up its 800th physician for EHR and meaningful use support. It’s remarkable because the REC has gone ahead of its milestone of signing up 600 providers in six months. In less than three months, 800 providers are on board. Read »

October 4th was the first day of the National REC and HIE Summit West. I attended the preconference symposium on "Meaningful Use - What It Is and How To Qualify." What impressed me about this symposium was the sincerity and passion of the speakers, who are early adopters of EHRs and true physician champions. Read »

If you've got a lot of money and your reputation on the line in an effort to create a huge paradigm shift in how we as an industry deliver healthcare, you need to create an infrastructure and make available the resources to support this tsunami of social and technological change. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has carefully architected such an infrastructure. Read »

Continuing on the theme of Monday’s blog on driving critical mass, two significant medical certification boards - the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the Federation of State Medical Boards (FSMB) - have announced their intention to make health IT deployment a standard in their assessment and certification of physician competency. Read »

The final rule on the meaningful use of EHRs may have been released three weeks ago, but the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid are not idly standing by. Read »

Suffice to say, when John Glaser speaks, the healthcare industry should listen. Even as Glaser moves from the healthcare provider and policy areas of the industry to the vendor side, he remains a respected authority on healthcare IT. Read »