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People of my generation (the author is in the late afternoon of his twenties) don't get it. What we don't get is how relatively new and modern personal computing technology is. We don't realize that we were one of the first generations to have computers in our...
The WHO (World Health Organization) Level 6 requirement for a pandemic requires serious outbreaks in communities in two or more different WHO regions. According to the WHO, a pandemic can start when three conditions have been met: Emergence of a disease new to a...
The HHS and the CDC have developed lots of widgets that you can place on your practice website to give your patients the latest information on the swine flu. You can get a widget for your practice website from HHS here or from CDC here. These sites also provide...
A typical standard operating procedure in many practices when adding a new physician is to phase in his/her schedule as s/he becomes credentialed by each payer. Traditionally, new physicians have been able to see Medicare patients immediately due to the Medicare...
The Medical Home, also called the Patient-Centered Medical Home, and the Personal Medical Home, is a movement to solve the problem of fragmented care (one hand doesn't know what the other is doing) by having a primary care physician or practitioner act as the center...
What a wonderful, crazy time this is, both in healthcare and in my life. I can hardy keep up with either! First, some changes to my website/blog. I've added a few new pages to house special resources, but I don't have them connected to RSS or email yet, so for the...
Selected by President Obama as his choice for National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Dr. Blumenthal will lead the implementation of a nationwide interoperable, privacy-protected health information technology infrastructure as called for in the American...
An electronic, cumulative record of health-related information on an individual, drawn from multiple sources, that is created, gathered, and managed by the individual. The integrity of the data in the ePHR and control of access to that data is the responsibility of...
Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology. In 2004 the position was created by by Presidential Executive Order. In March 2009, President Obama appointed David Blumenthal, M.D., M.P.P. to the position. The primary purpose of this position...
To qualify as a “meaningful user,” eligible providers must demonstrate use of a “qualified EHR” in a “meaningful manner.” ARRA defers to the secretary of Health and Human Services (HSS) to set specific guidelines for determining what constitutes a “qualified EHR”;...
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