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IHE and HL7 create joint Healthcare Standards Integration Workgroup
January 23, 2015 | Keith W. Boone
The first official meeting of the Healthcare Standards Integration workgoup was convened at the HL7 working group meeting, to review feedback on FHIR resources that had... More

Recent Posts

The experience of interoperability thus far
January 21, 2015 | John Halamka
How can we reduce the anxiety of interoperability? For many use cases, FHIR is our best hope for the future, says John Halamka, MD. More
Behavioral health acutely needs EHRs
January 20, 2015 | Edmund Billings, MD
A show of hands: Who believes depression or bipolar disorder have no impact on the severity and treatment of a patient’s diabetes and COPD? It's an idea no... More
An ICD-10 training timeline, and some coding scenarios
January 20, 2015 | Carl Natale
ICD10Watch Editor Carl Natale doesn't see how anyone can make the argument that ICD-10 training should be delayed. There are currently less than nine months for... More
Where the money will go in 2015
January 16, 2015 | Jeff Rowe
Last week, Future Care pointed to a report heralding 2014 as the biggest year on record for digital health investment. But what about the year ahead? More
Top 5 health IT trends for 2015: What's top of mind?
January 15, 2015 | Karin Ratchinsky
What will remain constant in 2015 is change. Healthcare is in the middle of a major evolution toward digital, personalized medicine and the empowered patient. Karin... More

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Carl Natale

Editor, ICD10Watch
Chris Davis

Senior solutions architect, Verizon Enterprise Solutions
Christina Thielst

Christina's Considerations
Edmund Billings, MD

Medsphere Systems Corporation
Jeff Rowe

Contributing Writer
John Halamka

CareGroup Health System, Life as a Healthcare CIO
John Moore

Chilmark Research
Joseph C. Kvedar

Director, Center for Connected Health
Keith W. Boone

Healthcare Standards
Kurt Hagerman

CISO, FireHost
Lisa Suennen

Managing Member, Psilos Group
Stephen Burrows

Sacred Heart University’s College of Health Professions
5 lessons healthcare leaders can learn from the imaging industry
November 24, 2014 | Steve Tolle
Medical imaging practices have been doing more with less for longer than most other specialties. In fact, there are many ways in which imaging can serve as a blueprint... More
Why purchasing your own VNA is an investment in the past, not the future
November 20, 2014 | Cliff Bleustein, MD
It is taken as gospel by most radiologists and hospital IT professionals that a vendor-neutral archiving application is critical for unifying diagnostic imaging... More
Ebola treatment: Telemedicine can help
November 19, 2014 | Krista Drobac
As Congress examines the U.S. public health system's response to Ebola this week, we need to take a look at laws and regulations that inhibit better treatment and... More
Why your ICD-10 budget needs a checkup
November 19, 2014 | Carl Natale
Last week we found out that the ICD-10 transition may not be as expensive for medical practices as previously estimated. How does that happen? More
Software-led healthcare
November 19, 2014 | Sandeep Kishore
A few years ago venture capitalist and iconic software engineer Marc Andreessen quipped, "Software is eating the world." While his comments might have been... More