Today at MGMA, Fujitsu together with Osmosyz announced a new scanner that supports the relatively new CDA “Unstructured Document” HL7 standard at...
NHIN
The end of 2010 is at hand and the beginning of 2011 will shortly be upon us. So, the litany of people making projections for health care IT in 2011 has...
I recently heard Arien Malec from ONC summarize the biggest challenge of Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) in one simple phrase: There’s no @ sign...
I’ve mentioned a few times about the very interesting CONNECT open source project that was coming out of ONC. In fact, I did a video about CONNECT and...
Ever since I first saw Fred Trotter’s post about CONNECT being the future of EMR interoperability, I was really interested in the open source software...
Well, I must admit that I’m a bit overwhelmed by everything I’ve seen and heard at HIMSS 10 in Atlanta. This thing is enormous. Although, I think...
I’ll admit beforehand that I’m a member of the Fred Trotter fan club. He’s a little bit psycho when it comes to open source licensing and the...
I’ll admit to not being the most expert person on HIE, RHIO, NHIN, and all of the other acronyms associated what really is just creating systems and...
The HITECH Act gives Health and Human Services (HHS) 90 days to develop a plan to allocate $2 Billion of discretionary funds. Talk about a nice infusion of...
UPDATE: Check out more specific details on Obama’s EMR stimulus package. UPDATE 2: Many of you will find my presentation on the ARRA EMR Simulus money of...