CIO Lays Out Incentive Game Plan

Hospitals may well wish to hire a consultant to help them wade through the meaningful use rules and formulate a strategy for compliance. But John Halamka, M.D., gave the industry a 25-point cheat sheet for that strategy via a Jan. 3 posting on his Web blog, http://geekdoctor.blogspot.com/.

Halamka is CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, co-chair of the HIT Standards Committee, chair of the Healthcare Information Technology Standards Panel and an emergency physician. healthdatamanagement