Farzad Mostashari news and information

Dr. Farzad Mostashari, discusses a range of issues, including how he's still having fun as HHS' National Coordinator for Health Information Technology and therefore has no plans to leave, in a talk with Reporter Joseph Conn at the HIMSS 2013 Annual Conference and Exhibition.
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It used to be that preventing heart disease was no game. But now, not only can it be a game, but that game is part of an award-winning mobile telephone application.
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The Texas Medical Association is calling for appointment of a federal health information technology safety czar, while the American Medical Association wants to see more health IT safety research focused on systems in ambulatory care.
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The CMS is seeking information on how clinical quality measure data that physicians are already reporting to medical boards, specialty societies and other nonfederal programs can be used to meet requirements of its Physician Quality Reporting System and its electronic health-record incentive...
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The American Medical Association has asked the CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS to hire an outside evaluator to take a look at the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment program.
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A reader was confused by an article we ran saying 48% of doctors were e-prescribing using an electronic health-record system. Another article, published Dec. 6, based on an annual survey of ambulatory care physicians by the National Center for Health Statistics at the Centers for Disease Control,...
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Barriers to health information technology adoption by providers today center more around practice leadership than financial challenges, according to the head of HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
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The CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology need to tighten up oversight of the Medicare EHR incentive payment program, says HHS' inspector general's office.
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What am I thankful for today? The usual stuff. A loving family. My faith and my church home. Good health. An interesting job where I can put my skills to good use. And—as a professional skeptic, this is weird for me to say—I'm also grateful for our government, or at least some aspects...
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One sure indicator that the political status quo in Washington—a divided Congress and four more years of continuity in the executive branch—will be maintained came this morning when the Health IT Policy Committee met to discuss the future course of the federal electronic health-record...
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