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Aneesh Chopra Reflects on Progress to Date & What is to Come

Thursday, November 19th, 2009 | Posted by: Aneesh Chopra | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee, Implementation Workgroup

Please note: This post by the HIT Standards Committee’s Implementation Workgroup is now closed for comment. Monitor this blog for more posts from the FACA committees and its workgroups as issues develop. Also, please visit the Health IT Buzz Blog to join other Health IT related conversations.

Real World Experience: Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD

Real World Experience: Clay Shirky

The Online Health Forum launched on October 28th on the FACA Blog to elicit comments and opinions on your Health IT adoption experience (or your plans for EHR adoption). Thank you for your active participation, with nearly 200 posts to date and over 10,000 “hits.” True to the spirit of our Open Government philosophy, many of you extended the conversation throughout a number of more prominent health IT blogs, including John Halamka, Adam Bosworth, Sean Nolan, Wes Rishel, Bob Coffield, and Brian Ahier, among others.

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Real World Experience: Standards

Monday, November 9th, 2009 | Posted by: Dr. Marc Overhage | Category: FACA, HIT Standards Committee

As the HIT Standards Committee and its various Workgroups listen to the experience and advice of practitioners, standards experts, clinical system vendors and technological wizards and contemplate what recommendations to make to the Office of the National Coordinator, we often turn to look at what works in the real world as an anchor. One of the earliest principles the Committee embraced is that the standards being recommended should be in actual use – to be not only adoptable but adopted.

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Real World Experience: Charles Jaffe, MD, PhD

Real World Experience: Clay Shirky