Crowded Plates: For CIOs, Policy Mandates are Piling Up

Healthcare Informatics: If you put the industry’s best-known thought leaders in the same room, they might not agree on much.

They might differ on whether or not the attestation timeline should be extended or even be delayed for Stage 2 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. They might differ on whether the transition to the ICD-10 code-set can be done by October 2014. They might even differ on the color of the wall.

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