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I recieved some CCHIT propaganda today, I was kind of pleasantly surprised...
"Among the lessons learned by CCHIT is this: it is essential that a new program take into account the wide diversity of specialties and settings through which health care is delivered. CCHIT recommends that meaningful use measures be either simplified for 2011, or postponed until 2013. The intervening time may be used to develop consensus-based measures tailored to as many health care specialties and settings as possible."
Seems someone is paying attention... somewhat.
lroman@webdmemr.com
http://www.webdmemr.com/
CCHIT advovates for it's bloated big boy EMR members.
They have no formal interest in the successful digitization of American Healthcare.
CCHIT has "tried to play nice" recently to convince Obama they mean well.
Of course, they don't.
CCHIT wants to sell lots of EMRs for it's paying members. Sadly many of it's member's EMRs are virtually unusable in real world medicine. So of course they don't want sales to be affected by making sure doctors can actually USE the EMRs they were sold.
CCHIT is not some altruistic do-gooder organization. They are a by vendors, for vendors organization designed primarily as a marketing engine for the Big Boy Vendors they serve. CCHIT was created for something like this HITECH stimulus package. HITECH is CCHIT's dream come true. And you can hear CCHIT practically licking it's chops already.
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I couldn't have said it myself better, Jason! CCHIT is trying to act like a cameleon, but they are still a vendor driven, for-vendor organization trying to stifle innovation.
Soon we'll have SSHIT, the "Shoe Salesmen for Health Information Technology" telling President Obama to have physicians "significantly use" some sort of wired, certified shoes. First, they'll elect Mr. Richard Reid (famous plastique-shoe salesman) as Chairman, then they'll try to influence politics in any way possible-
Then they will get a shoe certification that will turn this-
Into this- one large lobby-laden monolithic c-SHOE-
Which even presidents will back (with enough lobbyist influence)-
And like CCHIT's promise that they haven't delivered (interoperability), they too will promise things that they won't be able to do-
(In this case, a "copulating shoe design".)
But we can't forget the poorly installed and deinstalled expensive shoes- what buyers do to them after they've lost their money-
Yup, hopefully, like CCHIT, SSHIT and sink into obscurity... which I hope will happen to some of the politicians that support it.
Al
Al Borges, M.D.
BTW, just listen to Glen Tullman in one of his most recent interviews where he is proud to have Allscripts supporting CCHIT and at the same time wants to eventually be left with a half dozen c-EHR systems. The interview is here- http://www.emrandhipaa.com/tag/matthew-holt/
Read what Matthew Holt stated for the record (of course, he has to try to be neutral about it)-
"What does make a lot of sense is why the CEO of one of the largest EHR vendors would want the certified EHR vendor list to be a really small list that includes them. So, it would make sense for him to lobby the government to keep the list small."
But it's an amazing statement from the CEO of Allscripts. He actively lobbies to have big government cull the marketplace so as to somehow make it easier for doctors to choose Allscripts pick an EMR.
The other amazing interview (at the same URL) is the one done with Mark Leavitt. Mr. Leavitt, Chairman of CCHIT, feels that he is more qualified than doctors to select an EMR, which has to be comprehensive and certified. No more reading those textbooks! No more using the free Medscape! No more using free software like epocrates! No- these won't do. Heck, why even go to med school then? This EHR can do EVERYTHING!!! We need an incredibly comprehensive EHR that pools in all the data, and we need to be forced to "significantly use" it. <sigh> Here we're going back to listening to the shoe salesman trying to drive healthcare...
BTW, congratulations go to Matthew Holt for these revealing interviews, looking into the minds of 2 truly despotic, evil, power hungry men. Why people don't understand the disconnect between CCHIT c-EHR vendors and their physician clients is beyond me.
I didn't bother listening to the Tullman or Leavitt interviews ... but found the Bush one quite amusing.
He's very much anti-CCHIT, and anti docs being $100,000 transcribers. I guess he wants his company to take over the basic management of the practice and let the docs be supervisors of lesser qualified paramedical staff.
Sending PQRI data with each claim .. I don't think so!
Graham http://www.synapse-ehr.com/ Synapse - the EMR for the superior physician
gchiu: Sending PQRI data with each claim .. I don't think so!
Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
http://www.cms.hhs.gov/pqri/
Would sending PQRI data with each claim be too difficult ?
Jon Bush is
A very thought provoking and entertaining interview.
I listened to the first 5 min of the interview and he said.
I was shocked as .... those are three things I rant about here ... daily !
So I rewinded the interview and took notes and I seem to have similar thoughts/conclusions to Jon Bush.
This interview needs it's own thread. Jon Bush at HIMSS: his views on Digital Medicine, now and tomorrow.