TESTIMONY OF BARBARA S. COCHRAN, PRESIDENT, RADIO-TELEVISION NEWS DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION BEFORE THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON VITAL AND HEALTH STATISTICS July 14, 2004 Distinguished members of the Committee: I am pleased to testify today on behalf of the Radio-Television News Directors Association regarding how implementation of the HIPAA Privacy Rule affects the operations of radio and…
June 22, 2004 Comments from Dr. Charles Cutler Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the recommendations for measuring health care quality. At Aetna we feel it is important to have robust, reliable quality measures available in an efficient and cost effective manner to allow more informed decision making by consumers and to support…
June 18, 2004 National Committee On Vital And Health Statistics Workgroup on Quality June 24-25, 2004 Hearing Testimony regarding candidate recommendations: Create a mechanism for reporting selected inpatient and outpatient laboratory results in a standard transaction. Create a mechanism for reporting selected vital signs and objective data measurements for inpatient encounters and outpatient visits in…
Written Testimony of the American College of Physicians Regarding Standards for e-Prescribing Presented to the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics Subcommittee on Standards and Security May 17, 2004 The American College of Physicians (ACP), representing over 115,000 internal medicine physicians and medical students, is pleased to provide testimony on the subject of standards…
Introduction Thank you, Dr. Cohn, for the opportunity to testify before the National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics’ Subcommittee on Standards and Security concerning e-prescribing standards. I am here on behalf of the 93,700 members of the American Academy of Family Physicians. The Academy is very interested in issues of health information technology, particularly…
Actual Oral Testimony May 26, 2004 by Tom Doerr, M.D. tdoerr@wellinx.com Thanks for the opportunity to present my views. My name is Tom Doerr. I am a physician with a part-time Internal Medicine practice that is limited to Medicare beneficiaries. I am also one of the two physicians who founded Wellinx, which is an electronic prescribing…
NCVHS ePrescribing Statement – McKesson Corporation Presenter: John G. Faughnan, MD, MS Product Architect, McKesson Provider Technologies Contact: john.faughnan@mckesson.com Revised: 5/26/04 Introduction McKesson Corporation is the world’s largest (Fortune 16) healthcare services and information technology company. Over the course of its 170-year history, McKesson has grown to provide pharmaceutical and medical-surgical supply management across the spectrum…
Requirements for E-Prescribing Standards Introduction As a knowledge base provider, Medi-Span, part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is limiting our responses, below and in the spreadsheet, to the standards and code sets that address drug information data and a patient’s medical history data. NCPDP Script Standard Medi-Span supports NCPDP’s SCRIPT Standard as the standard for the…
Testimony Gerry Hobson, R.Ph. Cerner Multum 3200 Cherry Creek Drive South, Suite 300 Denver, Colorado 80209 My name is Gerry Hobson. I am the Manager of Research at Cerner Multum, a subsidiary of the Cerner Corporation. I am a pharmacist by training. My responsibilities at Cerner Multum encompass the management of our content creation processes. …
NCVHS Hearing on Standards for E-prescribing Statement by Vassil Peytchev, Epic Systems Corporation 1. Introduction Epic Systems Corporation (Madison, WI) develops integrated inpatient, ambulatory, and payor information systems for large healthcare organizations, academic medical centers, and children’s healthcare systems. Epic provides the information backbone for many of the largest, most progressive healthcare organizations in the United…