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What Keeps Me Up At Night – 2013 Edition
By John Halamka, MD Now that Labor Day has come and gone, I’ve thought about the months ahead and the major challenges I’ll face. 1. Mergers and Acquisitions Healthcare in the US is not a system of...
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A Little Advice for the Next National Coordinator
By John Halamka, MD Over the next few months, Jacob Reider will serve as the interim National Coordinator for Healthcare IT while the search continues for Farzad Mostashari’s permanent replacement....
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Quality Measurement 2.0
By John Halamka, MD I’ve written several posts about the frustrating aspects of Meaningful Use Stage 2 Certification. The Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) are certainly one of problem spots, using...
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Fine Tuning the National Health IT Timeline
By John Halamka, MD I’ve recently written about healthcare.gov and the lesson that going live too soon creates a very unpleasant memory. As I work with healthcare leaders in Boston, in New England, and...
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A Little Advice for Karen DeSalvo
By John Halamka, MD Karen DeSalvo started as the new National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology on January 13, 2014. After my brief discussion with her last week, I can already tell...
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Black Turtlenecks, Data Fiends and Code. An Interview with John Halamka
By ROBERT WACHTER, MD Of the nearly 100 people I interviewed for my upcoming book, John Halmaka was one of the most fascinating. Halamka is CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and a national...
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Halamka Speaks: athenahealth & the Future of AMCs as Tech Innovators
By MATTHEW HOLT It’s always interesting to talk with John Halamka, and last week–after athenahealth bought the IP but apparently not the actual code of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC)...
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What Does Real Meaningful Use of an EHR Look Like?
By ROB LAMBERTS, MD I drank the kool-aid early. We installed our first EHR in 1996 with me doing the lion’s share of pushing and pulling. While I’d ultimately turn my back on this passion, I had a...
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E-mail Liberacion!
By JOHN HALAMKA In 2011 and 2012 I wrote about the increasing problem of Business Spam – unsolicited, unconsented advertising that has grown in volume to the point that it constitutes more than half of...
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FUD Part II: The Return of Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt
By JOHN HALAMKA A Time of Uncertainty … The upcoming presidential election has everyone spooked – what if Donald Trump is actually elected? What will the transition of administrations, regardless of...
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