BY Noam Arzt ON Technology
I recently came upon two pieces I had written on technology trends in the distant past. It’s kind of cool looking back at these, especially when I can find something familiar in something I wrote so long ago.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability | Matching
Accurate patient matching continues to be a challenge in healthcare, especially in an HIE environment. No simple solution appears to be at hand.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | EHR/PHR | HIE & Interoperability
In September 2015 ONC released a new report based on the activities of the HIE Personal Health Record (PHR) Community of Practice.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON EHR/PHR | Meaningful Use
The controversial report of the demise of CMS EHR Incentive Programs and Meaningful Use (MU) were greatly exaggerated. The confusion began with a statement (now removed) that CMS Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt made at a healthcare conference on January 11, 2016.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON Clinical Decision Support (CDS) | Immunization Calculation Engine (ICE) | Open Source
This release of ICE includes support for the latest release of OpenCDS and support for 14 routinely administered vaccine groups
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON Events | HL7 | Open Source | Syndromic Surveillance
Dr. Arzt, President of HLN, gave a presentation about an Open Source HL7 quality assurance tool for syndromic surveillance ADT messages at the 2015 CSTE annual meeting in Denver on December 9.
Read more >BY Noam Arzt ON ASTP/ONC | HIE & Interoperability
ONC released the Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap in October 2015 after an initial draft release for comment in January 2015.
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