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International Health:Pakistani Floods (August 2010)

2010-08-16T11:42:04.897Z

Video of home collapsing in the wake of the Pakistani floods of 2010.

Informatics: "Meaningful Use" Final Rule Official Announcement - Sebelius, Berwick, Blumenthal, Benjamin

2010-07-19T11:49:15.493Z

Colleagues,

For U.S. advocates of Health Information Technology (HIT), see historic press conference on final rules for "Meaningful Use"...

I found Director, ONC HIT, Dr David Blumenthal's comments particularly interesting on core professionalism in handling medical information and EHRs ...

... Also, get an introduction to Dr Donald Berwick, in his first speech as Director, CMS ...

Present:
- Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary, US Dept of Health & Human Services (HHS)
- Dr. Donald Berwick, Director, Center for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS)
- Dr. David Blumenthal, Director, ONC for Health IT
- Dr Regina Benjamin, US Surgeon General
- Reginal Holliday, patient advocate

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announces final rules to help improve Americans' health, increase safety and reduce health care costs through expanded use of electronic health records (EHR).

A CMS/ONC fact sheet on the rules is available at http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

Technical fact sheets on CMS's final rule are available at http://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/

A technical fact sheet on ONC's standards and certification criteria final rule is available at http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardsandc...

Informatics: HIMSS10 Covisint

2010-06-05T17:04:15.948Z

Eric Fishman, MD speaks to Brett Furst, Vice President of Healthcare for Covisint. Mr. Furst discusses Covisints web-based cloud computing services. Covisint provides one uniform platform as a service to merge different applications within the cloud to enhance interoperability and messaging of information pertinent to healthcare. Mr. Furst explains how Covisints app cloud can help physicians assess lab data, disease registries, radiology/imaging, and other personal health information data. In addition, Covisints platform is also useful to health system administrators, with capabilities to capture data for revenue cycle management, as one example. Dr. Fishman and Mr. Furst also talk about Covisints recent partnerships with the AMA and AT&T. With these partnerships, Covisints platform as a service will assist both the AMA and AT&T promote Health IT and their individual products/services.

Informatics: HIMSS10 Aprima

2010-06-05T16:55:19.097Z

Michael Nissenbaum, CEO of Aprima and Dr. Eric Fishman speak about the Aprima product line at HIMSS10. Currently, there are over 2,200 providers using the Aprima EHR/PM product. Mr. Nissenbaum reviews the history of Aprima, and its target market that is mostly 1-10 physician practices. Mr. Nissenbaum further discusses the Aprima EHR, which is not template based, but rather based on speed and usability. It was built at Stanford University using the input and direction of 18 physicians. The product is unique in that it is chief complaint driven, with 400,000 relevant terms.

Mr. Nissenbaum and Dr. Fishman talk about Aprimas connectivity with different technologies, such as the new Patient Portal, Patient Kiosk, Speech Recognition, dictation, etc. The discussion closes with Mr. Nissenbaums projections for the EHR market in 2010, and affirmations that Aprima is well positioned to remain a strong industry leader.

Informatics: HIMSS10 athenahealth

2010-06-05T16:52:23.600Z

The always entertaining CEO of AthenaHealth, Jonathan Bush, talks to Dr. Eric Fishman at the HISTalk HIMSS10 party. Mr. Bush discusses the significant growth of Athena Healths EHR in the past year. Mr. Bush also mentions AthenaHealths programs to help physicians finance the costs associated with EHR adoption. In closing, Dr. Fishman and Mr. Bush discuss speech recognition and Athenas billing solutions.