Donate Your Car Sacramento

The Sacramento SPCA has had an automobile donation application for greater than eight years. With the help of this successful program, the S...

Donate Car to Charity California

Car donation is the better approach to help & backing to individuals who need to need without pestering himself. You are donate the car ...

Dispatch from Eastern Europe

I’m in Riga, Latvia today at the request of the Office of the National Coordinator, explaining the HITECH act and the US national HIT strate...

Unity Farm Journal - First Week of May 2015

We’re now in the middle of Spring mushroom season.   Shitake subtypes like Westwind, Double Jewel, Snowcap, WR46 and WW70 have been particul...

Dealing with Difficult People

All of us interact with difficult people from time to time.    Rather than have a dialog, difficult people make demands.  Rather than object...

Unity Farm Journal - Fifth Week of April 2015

I’ve been in China this week helping the government of Shenzhen with medical education and innovation.   Kathy has been in charge of the far...

Dispatch from China

The first part of this week I have been in China - Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Suzhou as part of a Harvard Medical School program to help the Ch...

Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of April 2015

This week a coyote visited the barnyard during the day.   Daytime activity is not unusual for females which have an active den of hungry pup...

The April 2015 HIT Standards Committee Meeting

The April 2015 HITSC meeting focused on the Certification Rule NPRM and a comprehensive review of the Federal Interoperability Roadmap. I su...

Unity Farm Journal - Third Week of April 2015

The daytime temperatures are in the 60’s and the evening temperatures are in the 40’s.   The heated buckets in the barn can finally be retir...

A Dispatch from HIMSS

Unfortunately, I was unable to attend HIMSS this year because a special request from Andy Grove, the former CEO of Intel.  He asked me to se...

Unity Farm Journal - Second week of April 2015

Now that most days are above freezing and the mud is drying up, the cadence of the farm has returned to its usual pace.   The hoop house is ...

More Argonaut Deliverables

Micky Tripathi sent this update last evening. Dear Argonaut Steering Committee Member, I’m writing with a quick project update for your info...

The First Argonaut Deliverable

The HL7 Ballot for the Argonaut-related FHIR specifications opens today as promised. Here's an overview with a list of the structured d...

A Meaningful Use/Certification Crosswalk

Thank you to Steve Posnack and Mike Lipinski at ONC for producing a very valuable crosswalk between the CMS Meaningful Use Rule and the ONC ...

Unity Farm Journal - First Week of April 2015

March has been “in like a Lion, out like a lamb”.  The snow is melted and 50 degree days mean that the growing season on the farm has starte...

Gathering Feedback on the Certification Rule

Over the next 3 months, the HIT Standards Committee will review every detail of the 431 page Certification rule.     We’ll also be holding c...

Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of March 2015

The temperatures are finally above freezing and we can get back to the usual workflow of the farm.   There is only a foot of snow left on th...

The CMS and ONC NPRMs

This analysis was written by Micky Tripathi and John Halamka. On Friday March 20, CMS released the Electronic Health Record Incentive Progra...

Meaningful Use Stage 3 NPRMs arrive

For those who want to start reading The ONC Certification Rule The CMS Meaningful Use Rule I will write an analysis this week.