Two articles got me thinking about this, the first in Information Management  states that sixty-one percent of CIOs want to hire chief data officers (CDOs) within the next 12 months. The article goes on to list 15 requirements and in doing so provides some insight into…

In a Jan. 21 letter (9 page PDF) to Karen DeSalvo, M.D., M.P.H., director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), the AAFP and 41 organizations representing hundreds of thousands of physicians nationwide, urged the…

The evolution of information technology is fast. This typically means smaller devices that are usually more powerful, generally more specialized and occasionally less expensive. The replacement for that new cell phone or tablet you just bought is already on the…

There has been much already written about the Cerner-Siemens/SMS transaction but, having been through such acquisitions, and having a thirty-year history following and evaluating both organizations, I cannot help but add my opinions: It was a good decision for Cerner…

The law requires CMS to collect and display information about the payments made to physicians and teaching hospitals. This Data are displayed on the public “Open Payments” website. The first reporting period covers transactions from the last 5 months of 2013.  This is the…

While this is not surprising to those who have implemented EHR’s and accurate from a physicians prospective, the benefits often lie elsewhere. The data was derived from Deloitte’s 2014 Survey of U.S. Physicians, which examined physicians’ current use and overall views of…

“Because of the technology breakthroughs that have led to wearables and wireless devices we use in medicine, we have a unique opportunity to capture valuable and robust patient data without the patient always having to come in to see the…

According to findings from a June,2014 study by the SMART C-CDA Collaborative, published in JAMIA,  not yet. Although progress has been made since Stage 1 of meaningful use (MU), any expectation that C-CDA documents could provide complete and consistently structured patient…

The President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) in the May 2014 report, identifies that the primary barrier to greater use of systems methods and tools is the predominant fee-for-service payment system.  PCAST proposes the following overarching approaches where…

According to a Spring, 2014 survey  cited in an article by Premier, Inc. nearly half (49 percent) of the C-suite respondents plan to make their largest capital investments over the next year in HIT, to include electronic health records (EHRs),…