Last week I attended the AMIA meeting in Washington DC. On Monday a couple of members of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Staff led a session cleverly entitled, “Tablets in Healthcare: Not Just for Pills Anymore.” Over the last couple years, Henry Feldman, a hospitalist, and Larry Nathanson, an ER doc, have garnered a substantial [...]
Q&A: Blumenthal Talks EHRs, Healthcare Reform President Obama’s former national coordinator for health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, shares his thoughts on progress with meaningful use of electronic health records, and what’s next for healthcare reform. Mostashari to MGMA: Time Is Right to Adopt EHRs, Show MU, Move to ACOs To all those healthcare CIOs [...]
With Halloween one week away, the deadline for submitting an eRx hardship exemption is just around the corner (November 1). I’ve blogged about this “adjustment” several times in the past. Most recently I described the process for submitting one of the hardship exemptions. From my perspective, the hardship exemption most applicable to nephrologists is the [...]