Medscape One-on-One: Rapidly Unfolding Health IT
Video Interview with Ashish Jha, Health Policy Expert
On December 2, 2009, Medscape inaugurated a new One-on-One video Interview series, starting with its first guest Ashish Jha, a physician-scientist with the Harvard School of Public Health, whose paper in the New England Journal of Medicine earlier in 2009 pointed out the low rate of EHR implementation in the country. Jha discusses the article and the implications of the HITECH act. (Interview may require registration.)
NEJM, April 16, 2009: “Use of Electronic Health Records in U.S. Hospitals.” Written by Ashish K. Jha, MD, MPH, et. al. (Et. al. includes ONC Director David Blumenthal.) This article is available to public for free.