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Health information technology leaders have a lot on their plates today and more to come—implementing systems to match the federal IT incentive payment program upgrades, satisfying auditors roaming the land, meeting privacy constraints and preparing for the switch to a huge set of updated...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari didn't quite bare his soul to a bunch of hospital CIOs, but the man who was indefatigably buoyant as the nation's federal health information technology czar did pull back the curtain a bit and offered an assessment of his own concerns as well as some "insider clues" in his...
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari served more than two years as the health IT czar during health IT's busiest time. In an interview before leaving the post, he shares his thoughts with reporter Joseph Conn.
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the outgoing head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, will join the Engelberg Center for Health Care Reform at the Brookings Institution.
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A small minority of the nation's assisted-living and other residential care communities used electronic health record systems in 2010, according to a government report released Wednesday.
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Now really, who else could it be? Is anyone else other than Kathleeen Sebelius managing a $941 billion budget and tasked with moving the massive reform law from paper to reality?
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society has asked HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and other federal officials to extend the deadline by six months for hospitals, physicians and other eligible professionals to meet Stage 2 meaningful-use criteria for the federal electronic...
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Federal health information technology policymakers plan to establish a voluntary program for the testing and certification of electronic health-record systems used by long-term care, post-acute care and behavioral health providers.
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There has been significant progress in getting health information technology systems to talk to one another, according to a new study on interoperability by HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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Healthcare information technology leaders today hailed the efforts of Dr. Farzad Mostashari, who announced he will step down this fall as head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS, where he's had a big hand in guiding federal health IT policy for the...
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