Wednesday, September 30, 2009

The Health Information Technology Platform Meeting

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Today at Harvard Medical School, Zak Kohane and Ken Mandl assembled 100 folks to discuss " Substitutability " - the notion that E...
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Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Preparing for ICD-10

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In 2013, CMS will require the use of ICD-10 for coding of diagnoses in billing/administrative transactions. The code set allows more than...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Building the Nationwide Healthcare Information Network

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I describe interoperability as a set of business partners with aligned incentives who exchange data to enhance efficiency, reduce costs, and...
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Friday, September 25, 2009

Cool Technology of the Week

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As clinicians implement electronic tools to achieve meaningful use, it's likely that a diversity of approaches will be used in 2011 - so...
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Thursday, September 24, 2009

How I Eat

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It's time for a Thursday blog where I turn introspective an examine my life experience. I've written about what I ea t and where it...
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Wednesday, September 23, 2009

Meaningful Use for Specialists

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I was recently asked how specialists, such as pediatric surgeons with few Medicare or Medicaid patients, can participate in ARRA and impleme...
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Guidelines and Protocols

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I'm often asked about decision support capabilities in the BIDMC inpatient and outpatient EHR. I've previously written about our ...
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