In a scene from the 1960s film, The Flight of the Phoenix, Jimmy Stewart, playing the leader of the crew of a downed World War II cargo plane, discovers that the engineer entrusted with rebuilding the plane "and thus providing the marooned crew their best chance at survival" only has experience designing model airplanes.
The Office of the National Coordinator deserves credit for managing to pull together, in less than two years and with a small but apparently tireless staff, a plan for rolling out a system of electronic health information sharing across the country.
This summer the Department of Health & Human Services unveiled "a glimpse of the beginning" of population health-oriented Web-based health care applications.
Policy team to base recommendations on three health information exchange models, which drew criticism from some panel members.
Should the federal government get involved in the design of electronic healthcare record systems? The Office of the National Coordinator has billions of dollars riding on EHR usability.
Veterans Affairs takes measures to tighten control of contractor-held veterans' information, says CIO Baker.
Reps. Kennedy and Murphy introduce bill to make behavioral health providers eligible for health IT incentives.
'Connect' software update will offer cloud-based options for setting up health information exchange services.
In pursuing options for direct information exchange, the Office of the National Coordinator casts states as high-order service providers.
In a keynote, national coordinator lays out goals for a plan that has no precedent 'in the history of healthcare.'
