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Morning Headlines 11/15/2012
Rep. Ellmers pushes HHS on safety of health technology
HHS receives a second letter from Rep. Renee Ellmers after failing to respond to an initial letter citing an IOM study that questioned the safety of electronic health records.
MU helps drive interoperability, standards could also help
Farzad Mostashari of the ONC, along with HIMSS Chair Willa Fields, Charles Romine of NIST, and several private sector industry experts testify in congress today defending the results of Meaningful Use thus far among accusations that there should be a higher level of interoperability.
Arcadia Solutions Acquired by Ferrer Freeman & Company and Senior Management
Arcadia Solutions announces its acquisition by Ferrer Freeman and addition of Jim Crook, former CEO of IDX Systems, to the Board of Managers.
NextGen announces that it will connect its 75,000 users to the Surescripts network enabling e-prescribing and access to a clinical messaging platform.
WakeMed to spend up to $100M on medical records project
WakeMed Health & Hospital System, an 840-bed Raleigh, NC-based health network, announces plans to implement Epic over the next 18 months.
HHS Secretary Sebelius has a habit of ignoring the letters written to her by Republicans of the House and the Senate. She has been issued a subpoena to appear before Ways and Means about the funding of the chearleading for Obamacare.
There is not any proof that meaningful use of electronic health records provides any improvement to clinical outcomes and to cost reductions. The Mayo Clinic computers do not communicate adequately with eachother as reported in the NY Times, so how could Probst, Mostashavi, HIMSS, NIST, or anyone else say that interoperability has been solved? Just wonderin. What are they smokin?