Healthcare IT News - March 2009 - (Page 6) Healthcare IT News ■ March 2009 industry news www.HealthcareITNews.com (C-PACH), designed as a membership-based clearinghouse and collaboration center that would study the advancement of such applications. “Recognizing the need for potential value of an independent not-for-profit organization to lead efforts promoting development and adoption of mobile technologies in healthcare, Medical Records Institute’s Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare is passing the mHealth torch to mHealth Initiative Inc.,” he said. mHealth Initiative is scheduled to host an mHealth Seminar on March 31 in Boston and will schedule workgroup meetings in June and September. The group’s first conference and exhibit, “Mobilizing Healthcare,” is slated to take place Dec. 9-10 in Boston. While several presentations at TEPR+ focused on the development of mobile healthcare applications, two other themes emerged at the conference: the evolution of consumer-directed healthcare and the integration of clinical IT solutions with financial products and services. Waegemann said both subjects could be part of any TEPRrelated activities next year. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: tePr 0309 Federal panels release ‘shared vision’ for health It TEPR By BERNIE MoNEgaIN, Editor WasHinGton – The widespread use of healthcare information technology is a critical first step to curing much of what ails the healthcare system, the heads of three national healthcare organizations say in a “Shared Roadmap and Vision for Health IT,” released last month as Congress was debating a $737B economic stimulus. The law, passed on Feb. 13, contains $19 billion for healthcare IT. The top executives of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC), Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP) and Certification Commission on Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) - John Tooker, MD, John D. Halamka, MD, and Mark Leavitt, MD - prepared the document. “The nation’s business competitiveness is threatened by growing healthcare costs, while at the same time our citizens risk los- ing access to care because of unemployment and the decreasing affordability of coverage,” the three wrote. “Meanwhile, the John tooker, MD quality variations and safety shortfalls in our care system have been well documented,” they added. ■ More at HealthcareITNews.com e Connect: VISIoN 0309 Continued from page 3 ● based on mDevices, new software, new interoperability solutions and secure wireless transmission.” Waegemann has been touting cell phone use in healthcare IT for years, since he helped found MoHCA in 2006. At that time, the effort was focused on developing applications for personal health records. Last August, MRI launched the Center for Cell Phone Applications in Healthcare ● MaNos Continued from page 3 from its uncertain future under President Bush’s executive order to a permanent place in the federal government, by law. Three winning leaders (we could call them “head coaches”) have issued a recent shared game plan worth reading. John Tooker, head of the National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC); John Halamka, chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel (HITSP); and Mark Leavitt, c h a i r o f t h e C e r t i fi c a t i o n Commission on Healthcare I n f o r m a t i o n Te c h n o l o g y (CCHIT), said they plan to work together now more than ever. “Given the resources of the proposed stimulus package, our country is poised for great success in healthcare IT,” they said. Most of the stakeholders I’ve talked with these past few weeks have shown excitement that healthcare IT is front and center, despite the privacy battle that promises to wage on even after the stimulus package is passed. We have a president who vows healthcare IT will not only advance our healthcare system, but also help to save our failing economy. He’s willing to put billions down for that. In many ways, that’s a grand slam. More at HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.HealthcareITNews.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/founder-weighs-tepr%E2%80%99s-future http://www.enovateit.com http://www.enovateit.com http://www.healthcareitnews.com/news/healthcare-it-poised-grand-slam
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