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Healthcare CIOs Top Power Play: Friendship
July 20, 2011
By wielding power softly, it's easier to convert electronic medical record doubters into advocates.
Guerra On Healthcare: Improve Your Feedback Loop
June 01, 2011
We need an accurate and fast data-feedback loop. IT data reports that take six months or more to come out don't make the grade.
KLAS Finds Partial IT Outsourcing On The Rise
May 26, 2011
With a majority of healthcare groups using such services, the key to success is knowing what services to send out and what to keep in-house.
Guerra On Healthcare: Beware Cost Of MU, ACOs
May 23, 2011
The feds want your involvement in Accountable Care Organizations and Meaningful Use, but will you see a meaningful return on investment?
AHA Says ACO Costs Far Exceed CMS Estimates
May 20, 2011
The American Hospital Association says the feds used figures based on physician group practices that already have many ACO elements in place.
Guerra On Healthcare: Respect The Clinical Specialists
May 20, 2011
CIOs may believe that primary-care-centric EMRs are the way to go, but all too often, it's the best-paid specialists who call the shots.
CHIME Questions Patient Opt-Out For ACOs
May 13, 2011
Letting patients restrict access to their records could hurt efforts to improve clinical outcomes and reduce costs, the advocacy group says.
Guerra On Healthcare: Follow The HIE Leaders
May 09, 2011
CHIME, the National Association of State Chief Information Officers, and several private organizations are all influencing the development of health information exchanges.
Guerra On Healthcare: New Perspectives On Meaningful Use
May 03, 2011
The chairman of the Health IT Policy Committee seems to be adopting a more realistic attitude about what's possible versus what's desired.
Guerra on Healthcare: MU Debate On Lab Reporting
May 02, 2011
Some members of the Meaningful Use Workgroup question the need for office labs to keep public health agencies in the loop on diseases and lab data.
Guerra On Healthcare: In Memory Of Veteran Leader
April 26, 2011
HIMSS Analytics' VP of market research Marc Holland left a deep legacy on health IT, family, and colleagues.
Healthcare Providers Voice Gripes At EHR Usability Hearing
April 25, 2011
The federal Health IT Policy Committee's Adoption/Certification Workgroup became a sounding board for doctors frustrated with complicated electronic health record software.
Guerra On Healthcare: Health IT Committee Missing Focus
April 19, 2011
The latest Policy Committee meeting suggests that the debate on Stage 2 meaningful use could go on forever.
Meaningful Use Quality Reporting Haunts CIOs
April 15, 2011
Capturing and submitting data to CMS directly from an EHR remains a big concern, according to a recent CHIME survey.
Guerra On Healthcare: Clinicians Work In Flawed System
April 11, 2011
A recent hospital stay by family members generates equal parts admiration and frustration.
Frustration Flares In ONC's Meaningful Use Workgroup Debate
April 07, 2011
Health IT policy committee members can't agree on how to provide patients with access to hospital data.
Guerra On Healthcare: Gathering Support For Your EMR
April 06, 2011
To get a capital-intensive health IT project funded, you may need some advanced political skills.
Guerra On Healthcare: In Meaningful Use, Knowledge Is Power
April 04, 2011
The key to success in today's ever-changing healthcare policy environment is to gather information wisely and selectively from a wide range of sources.
Health IT Advisers Blast Data Exchange Policies
April 01, 2011
A federal workgroup said that data element access services provisions are "fundamentally flawed," pose privacy challenges.
Meaningful Use Workgroup To Review Timing Options
March 25, 2011
The recommendations and deadlines for MU Stage 2 are too tough, and a subcommittee of ONC's HIT Policy Committee is going to look for ways to ease the burdens.
Guerra On Healthcare: Cutting Ties With An EMR Vendor
March 22, 2011
If you find yourself in the unenviable position of breaking up with your electronic medical record provider, honesty, forthrightness, and transparency go a long way.
Prospects For Meaningful Use Stage 2 Progress Questioned
March 21, 2011
Members of a President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology workgroup said the lack of standardized universal exchange language message wrapper compromise feasibility.
Guerra On Healthcare: Procrastinators Prosper On Meaningful Use Deadlines
March 15, 2011
Organizations that rush to attest to Stage 1 in 2011 may find themselves in trouble when they find themselves with a shortened timeframe to prepare for Stage 2 criteria.
Guerra On Healthcare: Fast EMR Decisions, Poor Choices
March 09, 2011
The Meaningful Use program has forgotten how much must go into system selection and implementation; selecting the right system is the foundation upon which everything else is built.
Established Vendors Lead Tumultuous EMR Market
March 04, 2011
More than a third of providers plan to replace their current EMRs within the next two years, according to a KLAS report.