Responses continue to roll in after the Dec 30, 2009 final rule proposal from The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). As expected, there are some positive and some critical comments. From reading them, one cannot help but wonder what percentage of [...]
For years, healthcare IT has been dominated by big players and arcane system architecture that resembled the ERP market in the 1990s. Playing into this is the vendor dominated CCHIT certification process, which required everything under the sky to pass, but did little to ensure the software support a better care delivery or even integration [...]
Many IT industry pundits you speak to these days will call out healthcare IT as one of the up and coming hot areas in the software business. However, what does up and coming really mean? There have been plenty of flame outs and problems of health IT projects in the news too.
I am very optimistic [...]