We crawl back into the new, proposed health information technology federal testing and certification rule today to find a request for comments on price transparency requirements for electronic health-record system vendors.
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This is intriguing.
Deep in the weeds of the new proposed federal rule for the testing and certification of electronic health-record systems is a call for public comment on whether it would "prudent" of the federal government to focus on an effort to develop a procedure for certifying health information technology systems for organizations that can't receive IT subsidies or be penalized under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
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Not that I mind working hard for a living, but it's too bad that the best evidence of what's actually in the Stage 2 meaningful-use proposed rule until yesterday was what reporters could furiously type while federal officials delivered their PowerPoint presentations.
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There's been a running dialogue on the Listserv of the Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems of Information Systems since last week when CMS acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner disclosed that the federal government was getting cold feet about its Oct. 1, 2013 deadline for the federally mandated nationwide implementation of ICD-10.
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I'm sure many of you, like me, are in HIMSS mode right now. So, I'm going to interrupt your packing for the Las Vegas meeting of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society for only a minute.
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The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society is on track to reach door-busting, record attendance figures at its annual show later this month, according to H. Stephen Lieber, the Chicago-based healthcare IT industry trade group's president and CEO.
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A couple of days ago, Brian Ahier, blogger and Oregon-based health IT evangelist, started a ruckus on Google+.
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Technology blogger Shelly Palmer has a futuristic warning in his recent post, "Google = Skynet … Yikes!"
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