Healthcare.gov was “experiencing technical difficulties” again yesterday, but the system is up now. Thirty days after it went live, the Federal insurance marketplace, the flagship of Obamacare, is still hopelessly broken
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Breathing Room for Meaningful Use Stage 3 Appears on the Horizon
Amid the abundant (and yet unanswered) pleas from all quarters to extend or delay Stage 2 comes some potential good news about the scheduling of Meaningful Use Stage 3: It’s becoming clearer and clearer that Stage 3 won’t start for anyone before 2017—at the earliest.
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5 Reasons for a Digital Health Revolution
Dr. Saif Abed shares five reasons why you should wake up to the digital health revolution whether you’re an MD, CEO, regulator or anyone else.
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The Metastasizing Complexity of Templated EHR Exam Notes
If physicians are struggling with templated EHR exam notes now, their problems are bound to be exacerbated as EHRs layer more and more levels of complexity.
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Health IT Is Not A Single-Minded Monolithic Being
Like young superheroes in blockbuster movies, health IT is blowing things up randomly, while trying to understand how it should apply these newfound powers. But health IT is not a single-minded monolithic being.
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How Much More Evidence Does CMS Need? Physicians Find Meaningful Use Too Complex
What more evidence does CMS need to prove that physicians simply find meaningful use too complex, too time-consuming, and too costly?
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“Ok Glass, I Need A Surgeon..Now!” A Telemedicine Revolution or Evolution!
Some people have called me a “Telemedicine Innovator”. To me, the fact is that I only try to make the workflow easier, more efficient, intuitive and, at the end, provide as good or better patient care with new ideas and the tools already available.
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The Meaningful Use Train Is Simply Moving Too Fast
The meaningful use train is simply moving too fast, and the future success of the program depends on an application of the brakes.
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Is Meaningful Use Stifling Innovation in Health IT?
This commentary was initially posted on Healthcare Standards and is reposted here with permission of the author.
I write this post after reading Margalit Gur-Arie's excellent post on Alternative Health IT.
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Alternative Health Information Technology
A quick look at what is driving health care costs up reveals that physicians as a group are cheerfully adopting a host of high tech tools that would terrify the average technophobe. So why is health information technology so different?
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