House panel grills Mostashari on delay of widespread interoperability

SUBSCRIBE March 21, 2013   |   Volume 10  |   Forward this issue to a friend News House panel grills Mostashari on delay of widespread interoperability Today in the third of three hearings held by subcommittees of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Farzad Mostashari, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, reassured a congressional panel that health IT interoperability will take some dramatic leaps forward within the next two years. Fifth attempt on telehealth bill passage A telemedicine bill aimed at expanding remote patient monitoring technology in rural and underserved communities was re-introduced in the Senate this week, making it the fifth time the bill has been proposed since 2005. ONC aims to give power to consumers The ONC Health IT Policy Committee's Consumer Empowerment Workgroup convened for the first time Tuesday, discussing its goals for advising and recommending policy approaches to promoting participatory medicine. Medical device interoperability could save $30B a year, says WHI Improvements in the ability of medical devices and health IT systems to communicate and exchange data could lead to more than $30 billion a year in savings, according to a new report from the West Health Institute. Slideshow Slideshow: Archaic health IT Innovation in technology happens so quickly that it's often hard to remember what certain technology was like even 20 years ago. Get a blast from the past with this slideshow of images from U.S. patents for now-obsolete healthcare IT. Popular Content EHR incentive payments top $12 billion Q&A: McKesson and Cerner execs discuss CommonWell Health Alliance Tiger Team aims to remove HIE barriers   Webinars and White Papers View all Resources March 22nd @ 12PM ET -- Open Source EHR and Community Hospitals: A Viable Partnership March 29th @ 1PM ET -- Epic on Linux Atlantic Health System: Innovative Relationship Setting Strong Course of Action in Healthcare Reform HIMSS JobMine View all Jobs Executive Director - Regional Clinical Technology, National Facilities Services - Kaiser Permanente - Pasadena, CA Lead Clinical Analyst, Nursing Informatics - Regional West Health Services - Scottsbluff, NE Senior Program Officer - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) - Washington, DC Healthcare IT News Blogs View all Blogs A new healthcare quality metric: Facebook 'likes' A social media-prompted response to the ONC RFI on interoperability Job Survival MedTech Media, a division of HIMSS Media 71 Pineland Drive New Gloucester, Maine 04260 www.medtechmedia.com              Click here to unsubscribe from this email newsletter. To update your email address, send us an email here. To report abuse, click here. Editorial Inquiries Advertising Inquiries Web/Newsletter

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