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Behind the Scenes of the HIT Standards Committee

by Gwen Cantarera 4. August 2009 01:23

Do you want to know what's going on behind the scenes as the HIT Standards Committee refines their initial recommendations so that the ONC and CMS can include them in the interim final rule? Read this post by John Halamka, MD, CIO, CareGroup Health System, Harvard Medical School.

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September 3. 13:41
Is Eclipsys/AllScripts tip of latest M&A iceberg? Seems so. Biggest impact on '10 M&A? ARRA/CMS. See p. 6 & 9: http://tinyurl.com/2f9mlju

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Latest survey by #INPUT shows HIT spending jumping 19% by 2015 w/#EHR spending exceeding 20% of $9.9 bln market: http://tinyurl.com/32db3u8

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ARRA - American Recovery and Reinvestemtn Act
CCHIT - Certification Commission for HIT
CMS - Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
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HITECH - Healtcare Information Technology portion of ARRA
ONC - Office of the National Coordinaotr for Health Information Technology
PHR - Personal Health Record

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