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Should We Pause Meaningful Use?

July 29, 2013 By Brian Ahier 3 Comments

Should We Pause Meaningful Use?

There has been some discussion about whether it might be a good idea to delay stage 2 meaningful use for some providers. Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and some Republican colleagues in April 2013 published a whitepaper "Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to Adopt Health IT" ...

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Filed Under: Health care, Healthcare IT, HITECH, Meaningful Use Tagged With: CHIME, CMS, Congress, delay meaningful use, farzad mostashari, ONC, REBOOT, Senate, testimony

Analyzing The TweetStream: A Closer Look at The News For The Week of 6/24 – 6/28

July 1, 2013 By Shane Damico Leave a Comment

In this new blog segment, we take a look at the top 5 pieces of news that ran through our Twitterfeed over a specific work week. #1 Senate: #EHR hold promise, but currently "haven't been very well-designed." | http://t.co/BFdaV6D2Eo by @EMcCannHITN #HITsm — HL7 Standards ...

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Filed Under: EHR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Meaningful Use, telehealth Tagged With: Cleveland Clinic, CMS, EHR, GoogleGlass, meaningful use, Senate, telemedicine, University of Michigan, VA, Veracode, Veteran’s Affairs

Lies, Damn Lies and Politics

May 23, 2013 By Keith Boone 2 Comments

Lies, Damn Lies and Politics

Editor's note: This article was originally published April 16 on Keith Boone's Healthcare Standards blog. Special thanks to Keith for allowing us to republish the article in its entirety on HL7Standards.com. Six GOP Senators call for overview of Meaningful Use EHR incentive ...

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Filed Under: EHR, Healthcare Integration, Healthcare IT, Healthcare Standards, Meaningful Use Tagged With: Congress, grandstanding, Keith Boone, politics, Senate

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[#HITsm chat 11.18.16] Celebrate Passing the #HITsm Torch

November 15, 2016

Moderated by Chad Johnson, @OchoTex, HealthStandards.com Editor and Corepoint Health Senior Marketing Manager. November 18th will be the last #HITsm chat under @HealthStandards. Celebrate ‘Passing the #HITsm torch’ to @techguy @HealthcareScene.

Passing the #HITsm torch

November 10, 2016

The first #HITsm tweet chat was held almost six years ago on Jan 10, 2011. Since that time, we have hosted approximately 280 #HITsm chats. While some of you may have participated in that very first chat (only 15 actually participated), I’m proud to say that the chats and the community have continued to grow […]

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Podcasts

‘Hactivist’ Fred Trotter on the Cancer Moonshot, open source data in healthcare, and more

August 3, 2016

Artificial intelligence is a topic that isn’t going away in the health IT and medical community. One reason it’s come as far as it has is thanks to open sourcing, or shared data. Today’s guest, Fred Trotter, has a lot to say about the Vice President’s Cancer Moonshot initiative – which he was recognized for […]

Sue Schade on gender equality, CIO challenges, and value-based healthcare

July 27, 2016

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