Healthcare reform may still be up in the air, but this much is certain: Health information technology will be the foundational element in any reform effort — and contractors will play an important role. That was made clear this past year by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and accompanying HITECH Act. From electronic health [...]
Current: HP Federal Healthcare Leader Career history: Don Picard has been with HP Enterprise Services, formerly EDS, for 27 years. For more than 10 of those years, he’s led the company’s federal healthcare business, largely at CMS, then known as HCFA. Over the past several years, Picard has assumed responsibility for the company’s full federal [...]
The other day, David Blumenthal — Obama’s national coordinator for health information technology — and one of two panels he is working with (the Health Information Technology Policy Committee) — reached agreement on the meaning of the term, “meaningful use.” The term will guide doctors on the way to adopting medical health records. Here’s what [...]
