Up to speed on CCHIT controversy
We may have a definitive account on the recent controversy about the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and its relationship with the Healthcare Information and Management...
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I may be inviting some more venomous comments with this post, but here goes anyway. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced Monday that the federal economic...
View ArticleAttention CCHIT critics
Dear Calvin Jablonski, Rocky Ostrand, Maggiemae Ph.D., or whatever your real name(s) is/are, As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Certification Commission for...
View ArticleFinally, a thoughtful argument against CCHIT
CHICAGO—For all the ranting and pseudononymous posting going on of late regarding the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, there hasn’t been a real, cohesive, thoughtful...
View ArticleSelf-certification?
I’ve just read open-source advocate Fred Trotter’s blog post regarding the meeting the open-source community had with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology at HIMSS09....
View ArticleNew programs, new ideas
This seems to be the week for launching new programs. A group called the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is going to start accrediting ASPs and other hosted EHR systems....
View ArticleA belated thanks
Thanks to Jill Rose, editor of Inside Healthcare, for the shout-out in the May issue. This blog was highlighted in the “Blog Watch” section of the print edition, on page 6. Jill excerpted from my April...
View ArticleN.J. bill would ban non-CCHIT EMRs
This is something I reported for the new FierceEMR last week: There’s a bill in the New Jersey legislature that would effectively ban the sale and use of health IT products that don’t carry CCHIT...
View ArticleONC to meet with potential CCHIT alternatives
SEATTLE—Here’s a juicy rumor from the first day of the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound conference: the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is planning a July meeting...
View ArticleBreaking: Leavitt to leave CCHIT in March
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology said today that Dr. Mark Leavitt will retire as commission chairman in March. He’s been with CCHIT since its founding nearly five...
View ArticleUp to speed on CCHIT controversy
We may have a definitive account on the recent controversy about the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology and its relationship with the Healthcare Information and Management...
View ArticleMore CCHIT news
I may be inviting some more venomous comments with this post, but here goes anyway. The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced Monday that the federal economic...
View ArticleAttention CCHIT critics
Dear Calvin Jablonski, Rocky Ostrand, Maggiemae Ph.D., or whatever your real name(s) is/are, As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D., chairman of the Certification Commission for...
View ArticleFinally, a thoughtful argument against CCHIT
CHICAGO—For all the ranting and pseudononymous posting going on of late regarding the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology, there hasn’t been a real, cohesive, thoughtful...
View ArticleSelf-certification?
I’ve just read open-source advocate Fred Trotter’s blog post regarding the meeting the open-source community had with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology at HIMSS09....
View ArticleNew programs, new ideas
This seems to be the week for launching new programs. A group called the Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission is going to start accrediting ASPs and other hosted EHR systems....
View ArticleA belated thanks
Thanks to Jill Rose, editor of Inside Healthcare, for the shout-out in the May issue. This blog was highlighted in the “Blog Watch” section of the print edition, on page 6. Jill excerpted from my April...
View ArticleN.J. bill would ban non-CCHIT EMRs
This is something I reported for the new FierceEMR last week: There’s a bill in the New Jersey legislature that would effectively ban the sale and use of health IT products that don’t carry CCHIT...
View ArticleONC to meet with potential CCHIT alternatives
SEATTLE—Here’s a juicy rumor from the first day of the sixth annual Healthcare Unbound conference: the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is planning a July meeting...
View ArticleBreaking: Leavitt to leave CCHIT in March
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology said today that Dr. Mark Leavitt will retire as commission chairman in March. He’s been with CCHIT since its founding nearly five...
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