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New Meaningful Use Interim Standards Require Encryption Capabilities

New Meaningful Use Interim Standards Require Encryption Capabilities
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Anybody building or implement EHR with Meaningful Use as a goal should consider MU and HIPAA as parallel objectives.  HIPAA compliance should not be new to anybody involved in delivering care to patients or those who fall under the definition of Business Associates.  Encryption requirement under [...]

A Healthcare Consumer's Experience in 2016

After reading John Halamka’s blog titled A history of our healthcare future, I got an idea.  You can actually put together a  video of what a patient might experience, if all the Meaningful Use criteria do become rules and the healthcare delivery processes change as intended.  Is it a desirable future?  I am sure everybody [...]

The future of CCHIT

During the year of 2009, when the HITECH act allocated stimulus funds and assigned the responsibility for specifying the criteria for physicians to qualify for these funds, people in the Healthcare IT business have been wondering what would happen to CCHIT (The Certification Commission for Health IT) which is a non-profit consortium made up of [...]