MI2 Blog and News
- 06-19-2009:
CCHIT has just release a proposal for two 'alternate certification pathways'. These are specifically aimed at concerns of the OpenSource World.
There are some good things in these alternate pathways. First the alternate pathways do not require inclusion of CPT codes. Second, A program can be certified as a 'module' that means it meets certian ARRA requirements but not all. By combining multiple 'modules' a physician can have a 'certified solution' There is also a 'site certification' pathway where even if the modules are not certified, if a provider has a single or a series of programs that meet ARRA requirements he can get his site certified and be eligible for the incentive payments. - 05-07-2009:
Mark Leavitt, Chairman of CCHIT and former CEO of MedicaLogic gave this interview at HIMMS this year. He mentions new thoughts about working with the Open Source community as a result of a meeting with Fred Trotter and others. Good work all. In a personal note I interviewed to be his first programmer prior to the launch of Medicalogic, way back when .... here's the video - 05-07-2009:
MI2 released a new and very updated OpenEMR User's Guide to the community this week. The previous guide was two releases behind. Much thanks to our tech writer, Sara, for a job well done! - 05-05-2009:
OpenEMR, courtesy of Dr. Jude Pierre's Phyaura.com in Florida, has a working E-Prescribing solution and has donated this code to our project making OpenEMR one of the few software applications in the country that has working E-Prescribing. - 04-24-2009:
"Washington, D.C. -Senator John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV today introduced legislation that will facilitate nationwide adoption of electronic health records, particularly among small, rural providers. The Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009 will build upon the successful use of "open source" electronic health records by the Department of Veterans Affairs as well as the "open source exchange model," which was recently expanded among federal agencies through the Nationwide Health Information Network-Connect initiative." - 04-24-2009:
The Grand Challenge for the Healthcare X PRIZE is to create an optimal health paradigm that empowers and engages individuals and communities in a way that dramatically improves health value. The proposed prize is designed to improve health value by more than 50 percent in a 10,000 person community during a three year trial. In order to effectively compete for this prize, teams will need to fundamentally change health financing, care delivery, and create new incentives that will result in achieving the required improvements in health value for both individuals and communities.
See the entire article at the X PRIZE HEALTHCARE site. - 04-23-2009:
Added a new clinical customer to our online services this week. Their practice is focused on caring for the uninsured internationally diverse community in Georgia, USA. - 04-20-2009:
Currently developing custom datastore and reporting to manage TBT Co-Op Clinics memberhip enrollment and billing processes entirely inside OpenEMR version 3.0.1. - 04-14-2009:
In support of the EMR industry and a real recognition of the value of the Free Open Source Software development model Federal Health Architecture an e-Gov initiative, led by the ONC, has developed a free and open source product called CONNECT for data exchange between divergent systems. See the entire article at the DHHS.GOV site. - 04-13-2009:
We will be attending and presenting at the FOSS Health conference that is being held in Houston, Texas on the last weekend of July 2009. Details at Fred Trotter's site.
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