I have no political clout whatsoever, but you do—all of the industry readers of this blog.
You can call on your members of Congress and your organizational leaders, and they will listen.
So I just want to put this out there. You've got a good thing going. Don't mess it up with politics.
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I don't want to get all hyperbolic about this, but the suddenness of the federal government's shutdown of cloud-based file storage provider Megaupload last week got me thinking about the possible implications for healthcare IT.
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Even before I started covering health information technology, my mind worked like a series of hypertext links.
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Here are a few quick bits of news from last week about federal electronic health-record system incentive payments.
The 24th meeting of the WorldVistA community wrapped up a three-day run Sunday at University of California Davis. WorldVistA is a not-for-profit organization founded in 2002 to promote the use of an open-source version of the VistA system outside the Veterans Affairs Department, where the VA has been developing the EHR for more than 30 years.
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You can't blame Dr. Farzad Mostashari, head of HHS' Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, for bragging on the troops in his recent post on Health IT Buzz.
I won't belabor you with a recitation of the highlights here. If you want a recap of your tax dollars at work in 2011, click here. It is an impressive list.
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It was great to be off, but it's better to be back.
Between the holiday parties, family gatherings, a ski trip to Wisconsin and a motor replacement on a friend's Buick, I also managed during my two weeks off to phone a few health information technology folks across the country.
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