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I've written many posts about the importance of IT governance to set priorities, align stakeholders, and allocate budgets.Today, I will meet with the Clinical IT Governance Committee to discuss the 5 major IS projects in the BIDMC Annual Operating P ...

Feed Item - 21 March 2012

While in Chicago last Thursday, I was asked how we validated our quality measures when we moved from chart abstraction to automated computation of PRQS, Meaningful Use, Pioneer ACO, and Alternative Quality Contract measures via the Massachusetts eHe ...

Feed Item - 19 March 2012

I've often posted about transport standards and the need to accelerate interoperability by mandating a  method for EHRs to send/receive data from each other.The Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM includes such a requirement for transport standards, mak ...

Feed Item - 23 March 2012

Taxol's major side effect is peripheral neuropathy .    Kathy will receive the 4th cycle of Taxol this week.  At this point, she can no longer feel her fingers and toes.As an artist, she depends on a fine sense of touch.   The peripheral neuropathy w ...

Feed Item - 22 March 2012

In my 15 years as CIO, I've experienced a gamut of sales techniques - the "end of quarter deal never to be repeated", the "we're your partner and you always get our best price", and the selling of products that don't yet exist.However, today I experienc ...

Feed Item - 28 March 2012

The March HIT Standards Committee meeting focused on a review of the Standards and Certification NPRM, as well as planning for our upcoming second quarter work on the NwHIN portfolio, QueryHealth, Radiology image exchange standards, and governance.Doug ...

Feed Item - 27 March 2012

On March 22, ONC issued important privacy and security guidance to State Designated Entities.  It addresses concerns from State leaders and other stakeholders that health information exchange efforts have been hampered and slowed by the lack of cons ...

Feed Item - 26 March 2012

Kathy can no longer feel her hands and feet.   The good, good, good days have become challenging days.    Kathy would normally push through it, but her oncologist advised us that being stoic increases the risk of permanent nerve damage.Based on the ...

Feed Item - 29 March 2012

In the March HIT Standards Committee we highlighted 3 gaps in the standards needed to calculate quality metrics automatically from EHRs1.  A longitudinal (not encounter level) patient summary format to transmit appropriate data elements from an EHR ...

Feed Item - 2 April 2012

Hospitals and eligible professionals are attesting to Meaningful Use at an accelerating rate.    To me, the Stage 1 Menu Set options NOT CHOSEN are the most valuable predictor of the challenging areas in Stage 2, since all the Stage 1 Menu Set items bec ...

Feed Item - 3 April 2012