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By MARGALIT GUR ARIE The regulators have completed their work. CMS has defined how you should use technology in your practice or hospital (Meaningful Use) and technical requirements for EHRs have been finalized. CMS and ONC have removed all ambiguity...

By Ida Strom Seljeseth At the AHIP conference in Las Vegas in June 2010, Matthew Holt sat down with two leaders in Microsoft's health plan practice: Dennis Schmuland, Director ?f U.S. Health Plans Industry Solutions and Hector Rodriguez, Industry Technology...

By Matthew Holt SUBTEXT: In this technology showcase from the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference on June 7, 2010, the participants in the Data Drives Decisions panel showcased and discussed how data collected from and by users can be...

By Matthew Holt In this interview captured at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 10, 2010 David Hale, project manager at the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health talks about his vision for the future...

By Matthew Holt Ever since the "build your own network" company Ning moved to a pay model for its networks, there’s been some browbeating on the blogosphere about what to do with those communities which had created traction on Ning,...

By NORTIN HADLER, MD There has been much progress in the understanding of the biology of Alzheimer’s disease. Chemicals detected in the blood and spinal fluid of patients with Alzheimer’s and findings with new brain imaging techniques are the long...

By ALAN WEIL, JD The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act creates a continuous set of coverage options for every American with income below 400 percent of the federal poverty level, or about half of the nation’s population. Sounds simple,...

By ROB LAMBERTS, MD I went to a patient’s funeral this past weekend. I generally don’t do that for people whose relationship I’ve built in the exam room. It’s a complex set of emotions, but invariably some family member will...

By Matthew Holt Over the weekend I caught up with Dan Palestrant, the CEO of Sermo--still the largest US based physician online community. Sermo opted not to raise new VC recently (unlike say Phreesia and ZocDoc) and actually reduced headcount...

By Matthew Holt On June 7, 2010 senior advisor at the Office of the National Coordinator, Farzad Mosashari, gave an interview at the Health 2.0 Goes to Washington conference. These are his thoughts on the conference, meaningful use and the...

HIE, SHARP, RECs, and now… Beacons? What does it all mean? With the passage of HITECH in 2009, we’ve seen a series of coordinated grant programs from HHS – and if you’re not confused with all of the acronyms, you’re...

By Matthew Holt It's been a little while since I checked in with the folks at BenefitFocus. They essentially create a system that allows employees to sign up for benefits all at once. They market it via a lead health...

By Matthew Holt SUBTEXTAt Health 2.0 Goes to Washington on June 7, 2010, Kenneth Buetow, Associate Director of BioInformatics for the National Cancer Institute and Founder of caBIG, talked about the launching of a large scale effort called Cancer Biomedical...

By DAVID E. WILLIAMS I’m quoted in the Boston Globe today (A new practice: The doctor will see you today) on open access scheduling. (I’m all the way down at the bottom of the article.) Open access is one of...

By MAGGIE MAHAR This week, the Cato Institute released a 52-page report on health care reform titled: Bad Medicine: A Guide to the Real Costs and Consequences of the New Health Care Law. The tract was written by Michael Tanner,...

By Matthew Holt So last month the nice people from KTVU (the local Fox affiliate in SF) came by to interview me and last night it aired. They’d been over at web-based EMR vendor Practice Fusion and had found out...

By JOHN C. GOODMAN Suppose you were in a triage situation and you had to choose between two patients, deciding who lives and who dies. Are there any principles you could rely on to make your choice? Alex Tabarrok had...

By Matthew Holt Josh Seidman has written from ONC telling us about a fantastic job opportunity. You get to work with the brilliant folks at ONC on fun stuff regarding consumer e-Health. What does that mean? From the posting. Forge...

By DON KEMPER Everyone was expecting the new meaningful use rules to include some important, but relatively basic advances for the consumer—and it did. However few of us expected meaningful use would include a real consumer gift: the requirement that...

By ROB LAMBERTS OK, I am an EMR fan-boy, I will admit it. I seem real “rah rah” in my approach to computers in the exam room, and to many I seem to have my head in the clouds; I...