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FHIR and the Future of Interoperability

There is growing interest in the health care information technology community in an emerging data exchange technology known as FHIR (pronounced “fire”). Last year we held a webinar on the topic with Dr. John Halamka, CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Me… [Read more »]

HHS Publishes FDASIA Health IT Report

HHS  released a draft report that includes a proposed strategy and recommendations for a health information technology (health IT) framework, which promotes product innovation while maintaining appropriate patient protections and avoiding regulator… [Read more »]

Health IT State of the Union

I appeared on the Fed Tech Talk radio program on Federal News Radio which aired on WFED 1500 AM in Washington, DC on January 28, 2014. It was a fun discussion with host John Gilroy (check out his blog here ) where we discussed the Office of the Nat… [Read more »]

Analytics: Realizing the Value of Health IT

This is my post on the value of health information technology for National Health IT week . So far we have not yet fully been able to realise the value of health IT. While great efforts at adopting electronic health records and interoperability and … [Read more »]

Turn the page

After eleven years working at Mid-Columbia Medical Center (MCMC) in The Dalles, Oregon, I have decided to take advantage of some new opportunities and move on from the organization. This was a very difficult decision to make because I truly love MC… [Read more »]

EHR Vendor Market Share

The latest SK&A " Physician Office Usage of Electronic Health Records Software " report shows continued growth in EHR software adoption, with 50% adoption in medical offices. In addition to reported trends by specialty, office size, ap… [Read more »]