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HHS promises transparency, but only after getting caught
A lot has been made about President Obama's repeated promises to run the most transparent administration this country has ever seen. Obviously, the administration still has a lot of work to do. The
HHS to establish HIT Research Center to support extension centers
Hey all you EMR and EHR fans at CMS, ONC, HIMSS, EHRA, AAFP and the like--get ready for yet another handy acronym in the world of ARRA/HITECH: HITRC, short for Health Information Technology Research
SPOTLIGHT: Brailer 'pretty impressed' with meaningful use proposal
Former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer is "pretty impressed" with the HHS' proposed criteria for meaningful use of EMRs published Dec. 30. According to Brailer, who now runs an
Brailer 'pretty impressed' with proposal on meaningful use
Former national health IT coordinator Dr. David Brailer is "pretty impressed" with the proposed criteria for meaningful use of EMRs that HHS officials published Dec. 30. According to Brailer, who now
ONC to outsource HIT program assessment and management
While HHS was releasing its proposed "meaningful use" rules to much fanfare and many people had already checked out for the year, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information
HHS hints at possible 'meaningful use' changes
With the first full week of 2010 now behind us, it's becoming clear that the proposed "meaningful use" regulations published Dec. 30 indeed merely represent a proposal, and that the final rules
Many unsatisfied with 'meaningful use' proposal, but that's no excuse to wait
Wouldn't you know, HHS officials published the proposed standards for "meaningful use" of health IT while we were taking a publication break last week. Fortunately, we were able to get in on the
ONC anticipates a busy start to 2010
Even as the weary staffers of Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology work down to the wire to help CMS get a definition of meaningful use of EMRs out by the end of the
Five fiercest health IT stories of the decade
When the powers that be at FierceMarkets asked me to write a year-end wrap for the final FierceHealthIT issue of 2009, it put me in a reflective mood. I realized I'd been covering healthcare since
National leadership for health IT
The health IT community was rather stunned when President George W. Bush dropped this one line into his 2004 State of the Union address : "By computerizing health records, we can avoid dangerous
