December 2011

HIT Quiz Results! Your Knowledge of The New ACO Ruling

December 12, 2011

On Nov. 3 we published a six-question, multiple-choice HIT Quiz on the final ACO regulations, which were released Oct. 20 by The Department of Health and Human Services. (For background reading on the revised rules, see Final rule eases ACO regulations, lifts EHR requirements, from Healthcare IT News.) Quiz results were definitely a mixed bag. [...]

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#HITsm Chat, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m., CT. Topic: mHealth

December 10, 2011

Join us online Friday, Dec. 9 at 11 a.m. for our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. It’s easy to join the Twitter conversation by logging in to the #HITsm TweetChat Room, which automatically keeps you in the conversation by tagging all tweets with the #HITsm hash tag. If you are unable to access the TweetChat room, simply [...]

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What Does the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Timeline Extension Mean For Providers?

December 9, 2011
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How To Get Started in the Healthcare Conversation with the Healthcare Hashtag Project

December 7, 2011

“By lowering the learning curve of Twitter with a database of relevant healthcare hashtags to follow, we hope to help new and existing users alike find the conversations and people of interest and importance.” Despite naysayers and laggards, the growth of social media continues to explode. In the past year, the number of tweets per [...]

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The Human Readability of CDA

December 7, 2011

The primary characteristic of a CDA document is that it must be readable by humans. The CDA specification states that, “human readability guarantees that a receiver of a CDA document can algorithmically display the clinical content of the note on a standard Web browser.” This requirement means that a clinician or patient can take a [...]

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#HITsm Chat, Dec. 2 @ 11 a.m., CT: The Pros and Cons of Sharing PHRs

December 3, 2011

Join us online Friday, Dec. 2 at 11 a.m. for our weekly #HITsm TweetChat. It’s easy to join the Twitter conversation by logging in to the #HITsm TweetChat Room, which automatically keeps you in the conversation by tagging all tweets with the #HITsm hash tag. If you are unable to access the TweetChat room, simply [...]

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Save the Date for “Interconnected Health 2012″

December 2, 2011

Needham, MA, USA and Ann Arbor, MI, USA and Chicago USA – December 1, 2011 – OMG®, Health Level Seven® International (HL7), and Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), today announced “Interconnected Health 2012: Enabling Health through High-Impact IT.” The event will focus on approaches, challenges, and solutions affecting the ability to connect health [...]

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And now even CDA is troubled

December 1, 2011

From: owner-strucdoc@lists.hl7.org  [mailto:owner-strucdoc@lists.hl7.org] On Behalf Of Bob Dolin Sent: 28 November 2011 19:07 To: Structured Documents WG Subject: RE: CDA or greenCDA Wes, Who is asking to have greenCDA sent over the wire, and what is their rationale? I don’t agree with your learning curve statement. I would expect that most recipients would use a general purpose CDA parsing algorithm. In fact, if you [...]

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