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Brian Ahier

Passionate about Health IT, Healthcare Reform and Gov 2.0; City Councilor, Presbyterian Elder
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Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The ONC has released the Governance Framework for Trusted Electronic Health Information Exchange . The Governance Framework reflects the principles in which ONC believes wh ... Read on »
CMS and OIG Proposed Rules on EHR Software Exception and Safe Harbor Promote Interoperability by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On April 10, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General (OIG) published paralle ... Read on »
Big Data Challenge to Transform Healthcare Delivery by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC), Heritage Provider Network (HPN), and The Advisory Board Company have launched the Care Transformation Prize Series, a national cont ... Read on »
User Fees for Electronic Health Records by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy President Obama has released his 2014 budget proposal , which includes $80.1 billion in spending for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), an increase of  $ ... Read on »
The Healthcare Revolution Away From the Mainframe by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Over ten years ago Intel launched the Proactive Health Research Project , a multiyear effort to bring ubiquitous computing to eldercare. Since that time Eric Dishman, an Int ... Read on »
Exemplar HIE Governance Entities Announced by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In the fall of 2012 the ONC decided that now is not the time for regulations on health information exchange governance. They decided to instead implement an approach tha ... Read on »
BRAIN - Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy April 2, 2013 at the White House, President Obama unveiled the BRAIN Initiative — a new research effort to revolutionize our understanding of the human mind and uncover new ... Read on »
Staggering High Cost of US Healthcare by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A report by the International Federation of Health Plans (IFHP), a group of more than 100 member health insurance companies in 25 countries, found that the U.S. pay sign ... Read on »
New Era Of Patient Engagement by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy On Wednesday, February 6, when Health Affairs held a briefing to discuss its February 2013 issue, "New Era Of Patient Engagement." In February's thematic issue of Health ... Read on »
Three Day Congressional Hearing Series On Potential Regulations of Mobile Apps by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Subcommittee on Communications and Technology The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and Technology, chaired by Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR), Tuesday ... Read on »
The High Price of Healthcare by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Steven Brill, Giovanni Colella, M.D., and Ezekiel Emanuel, M.D. Ph.D. examined how to lower the high price of healthcare at a recent Center for American Progress event, "The ... Read on »
President Clinton on Health IT at HIMSS 2013 by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Former President Bill Clinton’s keynote on March 6th at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition ranged from politics to economics, and from climate change to health in ... Read on »
Closing HIMSS 2013 with Karl Rove and James Carville by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy In preparation for the closing session at the 2013 HIMSS conference, with James Carville and Karl Rove , I had a chance to have a quick conversation with Mr. Rove about the ... Read on »
HIMSS Clinton Global Initiative Commitment to Action: Healthare Transformation Project by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy Last year HIMSS became a member of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) and committed to develop and implement the Healthcare Transformation Project (HTP). By foste ... Read on »
Get Ready for HIMSS 2013 by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition for 2013 is right around the corner so I will begin writing some posts to cover the event. This year looks to be another incredi ... Read on »
SHARP Focus: Secondary Use of EHR Data (SHARPn) by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As part of the HITECH Act the ONC funded the Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) Program . The SHARP Program was created to fund research focused on a ... Read on »
Consumer Technology Workgroup by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy A Federal advisory committee is any committee, board, commission, council, panel, task force, or other similar group that advises or recommends to the agency it is charg ... Read on »
State Health Departments Use Social Media to Disseminate Public Health Information by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Network of Web 2.0 Connections Among State Health Departments: New Pathways for Dissemination With social media pervasive in virtually all aspects of society, public ... Read on »
EHNAC Announces Public Launch of Direct Trusted Agent Accreditation Program (DTAAP) by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has partnered ... Read on »
Electronic Health Record vendors face make-or-break year of client ultimatums and revolts by Brian Ahier Posted in: Blog Posts in Healthcare Industry & Policy As many as 17% of physician practices are considering switching electronic health record vendors by the end of 2013, according to a new report from Black Book Rankings. With ... Read on »