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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: <td width="71%" height="68" valign="top"> <a href="http://www.nist.gov/"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">National Institute of Standards and Technology</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> (NIST) and Technology<br /> Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT<br /> Agency for Healthcare Reseach and Quality </span> </td> Audience: <td width="71%" height="26" valign="top"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Health IT professionals.

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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 Business Review, ask a more general question: Has the U.S. Health Technology Sector Run Out of Gas?

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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 number for identifying and tracking user identity and establish controls that permit only authorized users to access electronic health information.

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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 OSCON. They have asked me to help promote the conference and I want to be sure that our community offers up the very best in talks and technical content.

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On April 7 CCHIT will offer Preliminary ARRA Certfication with free bridge to Final

CCHIT has probably been hearing lots of rumblings about the ONC and HHS’s inability to provide meaningful use certification fast enough for providers and hospitals to get start with product and vendor selection. At healthSystemCIO.com Anthony reports that CCHIT will be offering, staring in just a couple of weeks, their Preliminary ARRA Certification once again. According the healthSystemCIO: The program materials, including revised program policies, applications, criteria, test scripts and other guidance will be available at http://www.

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Webinar on Certification Programs for HIT NPRM March 25, 2010 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT

This came from the nice folks at ONC this morning: On March 25, 2010 from 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT, The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), will present a webinar on the recently released Certification Programs for HIT Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). Public comments on the NPRM are now being accepted. The temporary certification program’s comment period ends April 9 and the permanent certification program’s comment period ends May 10.

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NIST updates draft test procedures page for medication reconciliation

As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, there’s been some good progress by NIST to create meaningful use test procedures for certifying bodies that will need to evaluate EMRs. They already have 8 test documents for various MU criteria including up-to-date problem list, active mdications list, active allergy list, vital signs, BMI calculations, growth charts plotting, smoking status tracking, and (as of today) medication reconciliation. I contacted the nice folks at NIST and wondering if they’d have an RSS feed or something for the changes — they said they liked the idea and would put something into place as soon as they could.

Shahid N. Shah

26 ways to grow your healthcare IT business

ExecutiveBiz.com has nice post this week on 26 ways to grow your healthcare IT business. There are some good ideas in the posting and are summarized here. Recognize healthcare IT as more than an IT opportunity. Maintain specific focus on each and every customer. Help your team see the larger picture. Speak the language of your customers. Participate in the standards-setting conversation.

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HITECH incentives payment & meaningful use training from Medicare (CMS) itself

A few weeks ago the Office of E-Health Standards & Services at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) did some nice training on the EHR Incentives NPRM. This is a great overview of the ARRA HITECH act as it is understood by CMS and should override any understandings by mere mortals like us. It includes information about meaningful use, eligibility, core quality measures, and payments. It’s worth checking out.

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