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Guest Article: Status of CCHIT and certification for ARRA

Many people have been e-mailing me asking about the status of CCHIT and ARRA certification. Jim Tate, President of EMR Advocate, is an experienced project manager in the implementation of both EHR and Practice Management systems and consults with EHR vendors regarding interface and functional specifications, marketing strategy, documentation and CCHIT certification. Many of us have had to put our plans on hold because of the pending government regulations so I asked him to provide us a quick summary of what direction he thinks the current certification winds are blowing.

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Federal standards body is looking for some health IT usability experts

Last week I was approached but one of the federal government standards bodies that is putting together some advice and standards around healthcare IT usability. They are seeking usability experts to join people like me on their advisory council. If you’re a healthcare IT usability specialist and would like to be nominated to join the experts panel please drop me a note or leave your name and contact information as a comment on my blog.

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Guest Article: Can Twitter help stop or slow down human virsuses?

Chris Thorman, who blogs about medical software at Software Advice, gave me a call recently and talked to me about Twitter’s potential use in tracking disease outbreaks. As evidenced by Twitter’s front-and-center role in the “Second Iranian Revolution,” the micro-blogging tool has emerged as a serious communication channel. Chris talked to me about how he thinks Twitter is every bit as relevant in medicine as it is in politics, business and personal communications.

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Top 50 Blogs to Help You Further Your Healthcare Career

With all the attention being paid to healthcare these days (given the Stimulus bill and HITECH Act provisions) and with the assumption that a ton of money will be poured into the healthcare sector at any time there are lots of folks wondering how to get into the health tech field. I found this posting on Top 50 Blogs to Help You Further Your Healthcare Career on the e-Health News Blog has many of the same blogs and sites that I recommend to my readers.

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Join me and others from CDC, FDA, HHS, & NIH to discuss HealthIT Adoption via Social Media

I’ve been invited to moderate a panel at next week’s Driving the Adoption of Health IT Through Innovations in Social Media conference in DC. It will be held on July 16 from 8a until about noon at the Amplify Public Affairs office at 919 18th Street, NW, DC. If you’ll be in the DC area, please join us. My panel is called “How Social Media Improves Communication & Collaboration For Public Health” and extends on some of the topics I presented in last month’s keynote at the Healthcare New Media Marketing conference in Phoenix.

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Guest Article: Why Games Matter in Healthcare

The Fifth Annual Games for Health Conference will be held June 11–12 in Boston, MA. The conference will focus on the many intersections between videogames, health and healthcare. I’ve written quite a few times recently about games in healthcare and how the IT around games in health is important to us. The conference is very affordable and there’s a 15% discount by entering bos09 during registration but the early bird pricing expires today.

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Guest Article: How medical students can get into Health IT

Many med students often write to me asking about how they might get into the healthcare IT space while continuing their studies or after they graduate. Kat Sanders, who regularly blogs on the topic of online phlebotomy classes at her blog Health Zone Blog speaks routinely to med students so I asked here to share her thoughts. She’s got some great ideas for students and is willing to take more questions via e-mail or comments in this posting.

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Amazon offers free cloud computing services to educators and students

I don’t usually write out product announcements but this one really caught my eye: Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Education. Here’s what they have (direct from their website): AWS in Education provides a set of programs that enable the worldwide academic community to easily leverage the benefits of Amazon Web Services for teaching and research. With AWS in Education, educators, academic researchers, and students can apply to obtain free usage credits to tap into the on-demand infrastructure of Amazon Web Services to teach advanced courses, tackle research endeavors and explore new projects – tasks that previously would have required expensive up-front and ongoing investments in infrastructure.

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Moving to two-factor authentication in healthcare apps

Most of us who work in the technology field know that single-factor authentication (using just a username and password combination) is not as secure as two-factor (or multi-factor) authentication. The Federal Government and large businesses alike either require multi-factor authentication or at least support it through the use of a physical access card or something similar. Until recently, it’s been difficult to get multi-factor security working in modern apps because they’ve either been expensive or difficult to implement.

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