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Expanding mHealth HIMSS and Foundation for NIH partner to broaden summit. PAGE 28

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NEWS

New rules

Proposed regulations for ACOs seen as key to health reform. PAGE 3

LINK

Strategy in the works ONC opens public comment period on plan for 2011-2015. PAGE 6

Five health systems to
craft connectivity model
By BErNIE MoNEGAIN, Editor

COMMENTARY

Beyond MU

WASHINGTON – Connecting has never been more critical.

Clinical decision support requires more than meaningful use, says CDS guru Jonathan Teich, MD. PAGE 14

That’s the message from five leading healthcare systems – Kaiser Permanente, Geisinger Health System, Intermountain Healthcare, Group Health Cooperative and Mayo Clinic, all

HOSPITALS

Getting personal Moffitt Cancer Center drills down to the molecule to find right treatment. PAGE 19

PHYSICIANS

Social obligation Use of social media remains far down the list for many docs. PAGE 23

PAYERS

New
Claims quest

Two senators aim to require docs to make Medicare claims public. PAGE 31

John H. Noseworthy, CEO of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota, walks with Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius during Sebelius’ visit to the clinic in 2010. The Mayo Clinic is part of the new Care Connectivity Consortium.

VENDORS

ONC chief
Allergy link

New mobile app links patients, database, physicians. PAGE 34

Mostashari, Blumenthal’s

New tools

GE adds clinical research tech to its portfolio. PAGE 35

known for their groundbreaking healthcare IT work. The five have connected to create the Care Connectivity Consortium, a model for health data exchange they say could be easily replicated at healthcare systems and community hospitals across the country.

deputy, is now at the helm

ProdUCt Spotlight

Unpredictable HIE Technology, market shifts, policy mix to create a sector like no other. PAGE 38

Calling the announcement historic, George Halvorson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, who is credited with pulling his colleagues together to form the consortium, said they are taking the next step in the evolution of electronic medical records.

MANAGEMENt Solutions

“It is the missing link,” Halvorson said at an April 6 news conference at the National Press Club.

Connecting It dots Does the work on interoperability so far live up to the ambitious vision? PAGE 37

www. HealthcareITNews.com Med Tech Media / Vol. 8 No. 5

“If you replace paper silos with electronic silos, that actually doesn’t represent much progress,” he said. “You have to have not only electronic data. You have to have electronic data that’s connected.”

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By dIANA MANoS, Senior Editor Mostashari said. “Most would agree we’re on
WASHINGTON – The Office of the National the right track, but we need to keep moving
Coordinator for Health Information ahead, and that’s what we intend to do. We
Technology has named Farzad Mostashari, need to constantly focus on improving and
MD, to replace David Blumenthal, MD, as doing a better job.”
national coordinator for health information Mostashari comes to the position with
technology. plenty of experience. Prior to his stint at the
Mostashari, who has been serving as ONC, he served as assistant commissioner
Blumenthal’s deputy since July 2009, received for the primary care information project for
a warm welcome from stakeholders. the New York City Department of Health
The April 8 announcement was not unex- and Mental Hygiene, where he facilitated
pected. Blumenthal announced in February the adoption of prevention-oriented health
he would be leaving the position sometime information technology by more than 1,500
this spring. providers in underserved communities.

At the Healthcare Information and Also in New York City, Mostashari led Management Systems Society (HIMSS) the Center of Excellence in Public Health conference on Feb. 22 in Orlando, Fla., Informatics and established the Bureau Mostashari hinted at his possibly taking over of Epidemiology Services. He did his the role at an ONC Town Hall meeting when graduate training at the Harvard School he said, “In a sense, David is handing the of Public Health and Yale Medical School mantlebacktous.” and his internal medicine residency at