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ONC expansion adds Chief Medical Officer, Office of Consumer eHealth
Clinical initiatives and consumer engagement are at the forefront of the latest expansion within the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
Mostashari: Government should play booster role in health IT innovation
The government is no longer the main source of health IT innovation, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the national coordinator for health information technology, told the Boston Globe earlier this week. But he outlined several ways it can--and should--encourage it.
Unnecessary imaging for cancer patients persists
The threat of legal liability is a likely contributor to continued orders for unnecessary imaging tests, according to researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital Department of Radiology who
Meaningful Use numbers grow, but are providers ready for Stage 2?
Providers have earned more than $5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic health records, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid reports. Through April, roughly 93,650
Many hospital CIOs skeptical of HIE efforts
While a majority of hospital CIOs responding to a recent survey conducted by healthsystemCIO.com say they are participating in regional health or system-to-system information exchange efforts, not
Reports outline paths to HIE success
A pair of reports unveiled over the past week, in addition to a recent blog post by National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari , detail the growing importance of health information exchange
Mostashari: 'Rapid progress' on HIE needed this year
Health information exchange is ready to "take off," as an increasing number of providers continue to adopt electronic health records, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari writes in
Scientific proof of health IT benefits lacking: So what?
As evidenced by the not-very-pretty online tit-for-tat between researchers who say there's evidence that electronic health records systems will increase costs and the National Coordinator for Health
Study authors fire back at Mostashari after critical commentary
Attention Farzad Mostashari: The electronic-access-leads-to-more-testing ball now is officially back in your court. In a commentary posted online yesterday on the Health Affairs website, Danny
Mostashari: Study on e-access and medical imaging doesn't get all the facts
National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, M.D., wrote a scathing post Tuesday on the Health IT Buzz blog in response to the study published this week in Health Affairs that concluded that
