John Halamka

John Halamka

John D. Halamka, MD, MS, is CIO of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Chairman of the New England Healthcare Exchange Network and Co-Chair of the HIT Standards Committee. He blogs at Life as a Healthcare CIO, where this post originally appeared.

Halamka offers lessons on Healthcare.gov's rough go-live
Halamka offers lessons on Healthcare.gov's rough go-live
By John Halamka | 09:53 am | October 24, 2013
After nearly 20 years as a CIO, I've learned that even with the best people, best planning and appropriate budgets, large, complex projects encounter issues imposed by external factors that cannot be predicted during initial project scheduling.
John Halamka
The era of Epic
By John Halamka | 01:11 pm | July 30, 2013
In the Boston marketplace, Partners Healthcare is is replacing 30 years of self developed software with Epic. Boston Medical Center is replacing Eclipsys (Allscripts) with Epic.
EHR usability
EHR usability
By John Halamka | 09:24 am | February 10, 2010
In my recent Top 10 EHR Barriers blog, I identified usability of EHR software as a key issue. It appears that NIST, with ARRA funding and ONC guidance is doing something about it.