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- CCHIT Announces Women's Health, Oncology Work Groups
- Longhurst New CMIO at Lucile Packard
- Cal eConnect Names Edwards Chief Executive Officer
- GOP filibuster blocks Medicaid funds
| CCHIT Announces Women's Health, Oncology Work Groups Posted: 18 Jun 2010 08:03 AM PDT The Chicago-based Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) has announced the creation of two new, all volunteer work group panels to develop criteria for electronic health records (EHRs) in Women’s Health and Oncology. The work group volunteers—13 for Women’s Health and 15 for Oncology—were appointed by CCHIT following an open application process, and represent a diverse range of healthcare stakeholders, including physicians, hospital representatives, and health IT developers. Vendor participation on CCHIT workgroups can account for no more than 33 percent of the workgroup as a whole. The Women’s Health and Oncology Work Groups will meet for the first time July 14 in Chicago where they will receive the Commission’s guidance for their upcoming work. These new certification programs are expected to be available by spring of 2011. CCHIT is an independent nonprofit organization that has been certifying electronic health record technology since 2006. |
| Longhurst New CMIO at Lucile Packard Posted: 18 Jun 2010 07:33 AM PDT Christopher Longhurst, MD, MS, FAAP has been named chief medical information officer of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital at Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif. As CMIO, Longhurst will lead clinical information strategy and also serve on the Information Services Executive Committee. “As CMIO, Dr. Longhurst will look at ways to extend our digital data to our patients and families to improve the continuum of care,” said Ed Kopetsky, chief information officer at Packard Children’s. Additionally, through a partnership with Kopetsky and Paul Sharek, MD, MPH, medical director of quality management and chief clinical patient safety officer, Longhurst will evaluate the impact of computerized physician order entry, electronic medical records, and other health information technology in a clinical setting. Longhurst received his MD from UC Davis along with an MS in Medical Informatics, both in 2001. After completing his pediatric residency at Stanford in 2004, he became physician lead and later medical director of clinical informatics at Packard Children’s while continuing clinical duties as a pediatric hospitalist. |
| Cal eConnect Names Edwards Chief Executive Officer Posted: 18 Jun 2010 06:46 AM PDT Sacramento, Calif.-based Cal eConnect , a private nonprofit corporation selected by the state of California to provide access to medical record information to physicians, hospitals and patients, has appointed Carladenise Armbrister Edwards, Ph.D., as chief executive officer. Starting July 1, Edwards will be responsible for managing the $38.8 million federal grant California received under the American Recover and Reinvestment Act to aid in the implementation of health information exchange (HIE) services and policies. Edwards most recently served as Georgia’s Health Information Technology Coordinator in her roles as Chief of Staff and Interim Commissioner for the Georgia Department of Community Health. In Florida she was founding Executive Director of the South Florida Health Information Initiative and the first Executive Director of Florida's Governor's Health Information Infrastructure Advisory Board under Gov. Jeb Bush. |
| GOP filibuster blocks Medicaid funds Posted: 6/18/2010 © New York Times The failed measure would have provided a reprieve for doctors about to get hit with a big cut in their Medicare payments, as well as further jobless aid for the long-term unemployed and $24 billion in aid to cash-strapped state governments. |
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