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ONC Tiger Team to make recommendations on Stage 2 rules

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's Tiger Team currently is comparing the proposed rules implementing Stage 2 of Meaningful Use to the recommendations it made to ONC committees in

Blumenthal floats idea of multiple paths to 'meaningful use'

National health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal seemingly wants some flexibility built into future requirements for "meaningful use" of health IT. But providers shouldn't be cheering just yet,

Privacy, security 'tiger team' told granular consent technology is flawed

The "tiger team" formed to help HHS sort through some of the trickiest issues related to privacy and security of electronic health information is taking on perhaps its toughest task to date, namely

ONC workgroup may consult FDA on EHR certification

The FDA may get a role in certifying electronic health records because of that agency's long history of monitoring other products for patient safety. The certification workgroup of the federal Health

MA leads the way in national EMR effort

National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal is a Harvard man; so is health IT's Energizer Bunny, Dr. John Halamka. The architect of President Obama's health IT plan was Harvard economist