NEW ORLEANS—“We’re all playing with half a deck,” said Lawrence L. Weed, MD, the father of the problem-oriented medical record, speaking during the AMDIS Physicians’ IT Symposium at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.

NEW ORLEANS—The key capabilities for electronic patient engagement are connect, learn and act, said Kate Christensen, MD, medical director internet services group at Kaiser Permanente. She spoke during the Physicians’ IT Symposium on March 3 at the Health Information Management and Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention about how the organization is achieving those capabilities for its patients.

NEW ORLEANS—Communities that have received financial assistance through the federal government’s Beacon Program will cease to receive funding after Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1, so their fate is “unknown” after 2014 when that is set to expire, according to Judy Murphy, RN, deputy national coordinator for programs and policy at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).

NEW ORLEANS—Meaningful Use certified technology is the starting point, but not the goal, for healthcare transformation, said Karen M. Bell, MD, chair, Certification Commission for Health IT, during a March 3 educational session at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual conference.