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National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
[By staff reporters]
We are pleased to announce that Don Rucker has been named the new National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
Dr. Rucker, a physician leader with national clinical informatics success, has a strong scientific, computational and practical background in medical computing and decision sciences, he was a co-developer of the first Microsoft Windows based electronic medical record in the world.
Additionally, Dr. Rucker was a designer of the computerized physician order entry [CPOE] module that won the 2003 HIMSS Nicholas Davies Award as the best hospital computer system in the US.
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Congrats Don and best wishes. You will need it!
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MEETING – In the wrong direction?
21st Century Cures Act Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement Kick-Off Meeting
On Monday, July 24, 2017: https://www.healthit.gov/21st-century-cures-act-trusted-exchange-and-common-agreement-tfca-kick-meeting-1
Dr. David Marcinko MBA
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Tell HHS: No special favors for “big medicine” at patients’ expense
“Care Coordination” and “Value-Based Care” sound good, but leave it to DC and the managed-care cartels to turn innocuous sounding phrases into ideas that chiefly impose more top-down control and red tape instead of improving patient care.
https://aapsonline.org/tell-hhs-no-special-favors/
Dr. Quisenbury
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