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More Work Is Needed On The Safety And Efficacy Of Healthcare Information Technology

Stephen Soumerai and Ross Koppel | The Health Care Blog | July 17, 2013

If one were writing about the improvement of gastronomy in America, one would probably not celebrate “over 300 billion hamburgers served.”  But that’s very much the type of success Dr. Ashish Jha is celebrating in last week’s piece on recent US healthcare IT sales. [...] Read More »

Mostashari Defends Vendor Fee Proposal

Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | April 17, 2013

The U.S. National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD, outlined his ideas for a proposed vendor fee at a committee meeting Wednesday, arguing that “having an assured funding base” for the agency’s certification program “would reduce uncertainty for the industry.” Read More »

Mostashari To EHR Makers: Be 'Moral And Right' Or Else

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | February 7, 2013

Mostashari said that some vendors go beyond the boundaries of what society views as proper, in their lack of opaque pricing. He said he gets complaints from providers on a daily basis, saying that some pricing or contract requirements are unfair to them, and asking if there could be some federally regulated norms around pricing. Read More »

Move Over, Cisco IOS: Dawn Of The Industry-Standard Switch

Paul Venezia | InfoWorld | June 24, 2013

Bring your own switch, load your own operating system, and save a bundle -- maybe Read More »

My Sidewalk Coverage Of The iEHR Conference

Bob Brewin | Nextgov | May 14, 2013

This Wednesday and Thursday the Defense Strategies Institute plans to hold a conference on the Defense and Veterans Affairs departments’ planned integrated electronic health record (iEHR) that, as I reported, is open to vendors who want to peddle their wares to the government but not to the media. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

New Program Will Help Agencies Manage Mobile Devices

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | May 30, 2013

Agencies looking for tools to securely manage their mobile devices and applications can now choose from among a slate of vendors screened by the General Services Administration, the agency said Thursday. Read More »

NexJ Receives Grant To Advance And Accelerate Health Information Exchange In Massachusetts

Press Release | NexJ Systems Inc., Massachusetts Health Information Highway (Mass HIway), Massachusetts eHealth Institute (MeHI) | August 21, 2013

NexJ Connected Wellness to be first patient-engagement solution connected to state HIE Read More »

Obamacare Contractors Were Big Campaign Donors

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | October 10, 2013

The list of contractors that helped implement the White House’s landmark health care reform law includes a who’s-who of top-tier political donors, according to a review by the Sunlight Foundation transparency group. Read More »

ONC Chief Urges Vendors To Go For Blue Button ASAP

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | September 12, 2012

Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national health IT coordinator, has challenged vendors to make it easy for consumers by early 2013 to view, download and transmit to another party their health information in the form of a Blue Button feature. Read More »

ONC Tool Will Capture, Calculate & Report Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures

Joseph Goedert | Health Data Management | October 17, 2012

The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has commissioned development of an open source certification testing tool, called Cypress, to capture, calculate and report clinical quality measure results under Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program. Read More »

One Nation, One EHR –The Direct Project

CureMD | CureMD EMR Blog | January 8, 2013

The essence of Health Information Exchange (HIE) lies in easily accessible health information to improve the quality of care delivered by the healthcare community. Complicated formats intrinsic to many EHR systems are generally counterproductive to this basic nature of HIEs and can prove to be a hindrance against delivering quality care. So the natural question arises... Read More »

Open Source Challenges A Proprietary Internet Of Things

Patrick Thibodeau | Computerworld | March 4, 2014

Linux Foundation believes it has the code for unlocking Internet of Things and bringing success Read More »

Open Source Is Taking Over The Software World, Survey Says

Katherine Noyes | Computerworld | April 18, 2013

It's been only a few weeks since the Linux Foundation released its report that enterprise use of Linux continues to rise, but on Wednesday fresh data came out that suggests the same is true of open source software in general. Read More »

Open Source Leads The Way Into The Cloud

Arsalan Farooq | Computerworld | August 29, 2012

Virtualization is now a well-established technology in enterprise computing. And in virtualization, VMware is the established leader. But virtualization has begat cloud computing and now the field of play in cloud computing is far more open thanks to open source technologies. Read More »