April 2010

Additional NIST Certification Draft Test Procedures updates

Check out the NIST Draft Test Procedures site; the following test documents have been updated this week: Incorporate laboratory test results Report quality measures Submission to immunization registries Public health surveillance They’re making good progress on the procedures but there is still quite a long way to go before the final ones are approved and [...]

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NIST hosting a summer workshop on usability in health IT

NIST recently announced that they are hosting a workshop on July 13 in Gaithersburg, Maryland entitled Usability in Health IT: Strategic, Research, and Implementation. Here are the particulars from the announcement: Sponsors: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Technology Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality [...]

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Harvard Business Review wonders whether the U.S. health technology sector has run out of gas

Recently I wrote that Innovation in healthcare IT is dead (but hopefully only temporarily). I thought, after my HIMSS trip, that there was very little innovation happening probably because of the deep freeze caused by all the regulatory activity and new Meaningful Use and Certification requirements. Today I saw one of my favorite publications, Harvard [...]

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NIST Draft Test Procedures added and updated

Check out the NIST Draft Test Procedures site; the following test documents have been updated: Drug-drug, drug-allergy, drug formulary checks Medication reconciliation. Electronically complete medication reconciliation of two or more medication lists by comparing and merging into a single medication list that can be electronically displayed in real-time. Access control. Assign a unique name and/or [...]

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OSCON, the most important Open Source conference, adds a healthcare track in 2010

I got a note about OSCON from Fred Trotter this morning and read it with great enthusiasm: I am happy to spread the news that OSCON, probably the most important Open Source conference in the country, will have a healthcare track in 2010. Andy Oram has explained the decision to add a healthcare track to [...]

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