Tag Archives: Farzad Mostashari

Only Incentives Will Make EHR Interoperability Happen

Posted on April 26, 2013 by John

Today we had a really interesting #HITsm chat about interoperability, data hoarding, and sharing healthcare data. Tomorrow we’ll have a post on EMR and EHR that summarizes some of the key tweets from the chat. Although, there was one theme … Continue reading →

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The Big Takeaways from The Breakaway Group Healthcare Forum at TEDMED

Posted on April 17, 2013 by John

I had the tremendous opportunity to spend the day hearing and interacting with a group of healthcare leaders across the entire spectrum of healthcare. I was invited to the Healthcare Forum as a guest of The Breakaway Group. They’d told … Continue reading →

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HHS announces 2013 Healthcare IT Agenda

Posted on March 8, 2013 by John

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., today announced HHS’s plan to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) and build a seamless and secure flow of … Continue reading →

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Health IT Leaders Partner to Launch imPatient Movement

Posted on March 5, 2013 by John

A call to action in pursuit of improved electronic health record sharing and open communication between patients and medical professionals   NEW ORLEANS – March 4, 2013 – To promote improved electronic health information exchange between consumers and clinicians, key … Continue reading →

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Colorado Beacon receives Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award

Posted on February 11, 2013 by John

Annual award honors CBC’s pioneering initiatives to transform health care delivery    Grand Junction, Colo., Feb. 6, 2013–The Colorado Beacon Consortium (CBC) is one of six teams of health care informatics pioneers to receive the Healthcare Informatics Innovator Award. The … Continue reading →

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Mostashari Asks EHR Vendors to Do What’s “Moral and Right”

Posted on February 7, 2013 by John

Healthcare IT News has a good article reporting on what Farzad Mostashari, ONC National Coordinator, said at the Feb 6th Health IT Policy Committee. Farzad doesn’t mince words about some of the things he sees going on in the EHR … Continue reading →

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Medical harm explained, in graphics and Farzad style

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Neil Versel

INDIAN WELLS, Calif.—Still think the United States has the “best healthcare in the world?” You clearly haven’t been paying attention. Last month, the Wall Street Journal ran this excellent commentary from Johns Hopkins surgeon Dr. Marty Makary about how the … Continue reading →

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Attending CHIME 2012 Fall CIO Forum

Posted on October 17, 2012 by John

Today I arrived at the 2012 Fall CIO Forum for CHIME. I’ve wanted to go to this event for quite a while. My fellow blogger, Neil Versel, had often told me about how great the event was and so I … Continue reading →

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HIMSS12 sets record for tweets

Posted on April 26, 2012 by Neil Versel

The folks at HIMSS are claiming that the 2012 conference in Las Vegas a couple months ago set a world record for the most tweets at a health conference. (I’m checking to see who keeps such records.) By the numbers, … Continue reading →

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Farzad Mostashari’s Post on Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM

Posted on February 27, 2012 by John

I love that Farzad Mostashari and other people at HHS and ONC have been blogging about these exciting times in healthcare IT. Farzad recently did a post about the meaningful use stage 2 NPRM (see this Meaningful Use Monday post … Continue reading →

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