Saturday, February 15, 2014

Today, maintaining health and fitness have become more important than ever before. With illnesses becoming more often, we have to equip ourselves with everything necessary to maintain health and have a good quality of life. One of the best ways to jumpstart your way to better health is through reading health and fitness magazines. These magazines offer helpful tips, advice and recent discoveries about health that should come handy. Note...

Thursday, February 13, 2014

I've written about our winter preparations and keeping the animals healthy in the 6 months of sub-freezing weather we have in New England.   It's been a particularly cold winter in Massachusetts.  It's currently 2 degrees F and we're expecting another foot of snow.As the snow gets deeper, the icicles get longer, and all unheated water becomes a solid chunk of ice,...

Wednesday, February 12, 2014

Readers of my blog know that over the past year, I've written several posts warning about the burden of 2014 certification, the  timing overlap of numerous federal programs including ICD10, and my observations that IT professionals/providers are at the breaking point.However, I have reasons to be optimistic and it's not just the approach of Spring.1.  There is a new national coordinator who is a great listenerI have every expectation that...

Thursday, February 6, 2014

As I mentioned last week, my wife and I have enrolled in an evening Bee school to formalize the beekeeping knowledge that to date we've picked up from books and our early experiences with 8 hives at Unity Farm.It's been a hard winter in Massachusetts.   Over the past 24 hours, Unity Farm has had over a foot of wet, heavy snow.   We're waiting for a warm day to open the hives and check on the bees.   Although we've provided supplemental...

Wednesday, February 5, 2014

At last week's Meaningful Use Workgroup meeting, Leslie Kelly Hall and I reviewed the HIT Standards Committee recommendations for patient generated healthcare data from online applications and devices.We offered guiding principles for Meaningful Use Stage 3 in general.   Meaningful Use should avoid "certification only" items since requiring engineering in products to support untested workflows with immature standards is unlikely to accelerate...
A person's health does not refer to his or her body only, but to every aspect of that person's well being. Health includes the physical aspect of an individual as well as his or her mental and emotional well being, too. The medical community strives to protect people from the damaging effects of both physical and mental illnesses, which is why the term "health" encompasses so much more than the physical. So, in order to live a fulfilling...

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Today at the HIT Policy Committee meeting, the Meaningful Use Workgroup will present its recommendations as part of the process leading to a final rule in 2015:Feb 2014: Draft stage 3 recommendations reviewed with HITPCMarch 2014: HITPC approval of stage 3 recommendationsFall 2014: NPRM for stage 31st half 2015: Final Rule for stage 3Effective: 2017I presume the regulation writing will follow previous approaches with ONC writing the certification...
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