Washington, DC Follow-up to Health Industry Forum at Brandeis
Covered in Series of Post on Health Affairs Blog
In a series of posts collected on Health Affairs blog by Chris Fleming on August 5, 2010, a range of stakeholders wrote articles inspired by their presentations at an August 5 forum held by Health Affairs and Health Industry Forum. This forum was a follow-up to a July 8, 2010 roundtable hosted at Brandeis University with Health Industry Forum. Both sessions featured National Health IT Coordinator David Blumenthal, who was joined by the new CMS Administrator Donald Berwick in the latest session.

Note: Series of Videos from the August 5 event are now available on the Health Affairs Web site.

–Chris Fleming’s Blog Post:
          Advancing Electronic Health Record Adoption and Meaningful Use
–Blumenthal and Berwick:
          Adoption and Meaningful Use of EHRs–The Journey Begins
–Samuel Nussbaum and Charles Kennedy, WellPoint:
          WellPoint: Supporting Meaningful Use Through Incentive Alignment And Hospital Financing
–Donald Fischer, Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield:
          Highmark: Using EHRs To Drive Quality Improvement
–John Toussaint, ThedaCare:
          ThedaCare: Meaningful Use And Continuous Improvement
–Will Bloedow, Retired minister and a ThedaCare patient:
          Through A Patient’s Eyes: The Value of EHRs
–Robert Laskowski, Christiana Care Health System:
          Christiana Care: A Leadership Moment For Hospitals And Physicians
–Gary Gottlieb and Thomas Lee:
          Partners HealthCare Applauds EHR Meaningful Use Regs (posted Friday, July 23)
–Humayun Chaudhry, Fed Of State Medical Boards:
          Federation Of State Medical Boards: Maintenance of Licensure and Health IT
–Kevin Weiss and Sheldon Horowitz, ABMS:
          American Board of Med. Specialties: Aligning Maintenance Of Certification and Meaningful Use