CCHIT and OSS

Rough times will not satisfy those of us
who are sick and tired of the non-profit tax exempt carnival operators
like HIMSS. I have experience with HIMSS, I participated in the CCHIT
public comments and know what is involved.

Here is a fact or two perhaps you did not know.
CCHIT is an outgrowth of HIMSS which is the effector arm of the
Electronic Health Records Vendor Association (EHRVA). CCHIT was founded
and seeded by Steve Lieber and Mark Leavitt.

Mark Leavitt was and is the CMO of HIMSS and is now the CCHIT
Chairman. HIMSS and CCHIT were housed side by side at the HIMSS
location : 230 E. OHIO St, Chicago. While CCHIT receives grant money
from the US Government it contracts HIMSS to provide services which
makes HIMSS a “contractor”. The former HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt was a
keynote speaker at HIMSS annual conference, Mark Leavitt of CCHIT has
the same last name.

HIMSS has developed cozy government relationships; CMS, CCHIT, ONC,
HITSP, AHIC, just to name a few. HIMSS is basically a lobbyist
organization and a 501(C) 6 TAX DODGING, FOR-PROFIT staffed by
non-technical and non-clinical people who would make decisions for 300
million Americans about the kind of health care they receive.

As far as this writer is concerned, the whole tax dodging , money
grubbing , smoke and mirrors nested operation and the revolving door to
government needs to be exposed. Hopefully this post is a step in that
direction. RockyOstrand