April 16, 2013 9:31 AM
Posted by: EmilyHuizenga
CMS,
EHR,
EHR billing,
medicaid,
medicareEligible professionals and hospitals should expect a 2% reduction to Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments for meaningful use of EHRs, the Centers for...
April 5, 2013 2:14 PM
Posted by: EmilyHuizenga
EHR,
My HealtheVet,
PHRs and patient engagement,
VAGranting full access to electronic health records has been touted as a straight shot to patient engagement and communication, as required for meaningful use stage 2. But do patients really reap electronic medical records benefits from complete disclosure of their personal health information? A...
April 2, 2013 11:08 AM
Posted by: adelvecchio
EHR improvements act,
EHR systems,
EHR usabilitySpecialist groups voiced their concern with meaningful use of EHRs criteria by supporting the proposed Electronic Health Records Improvements Act. The bill, supported by 20 groups, seeks to provide specialists with...
March 29, 2013 12:33 PM
Posted by: EmilyHuizenga
eHealth,
EHR,
eRulemaking Initiative,
ONC,
PlanningRoomThe ONC wants public input to update the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan, and is using a policy crowdsourcing platform to do it. The agency has partnered with Cornell University to launch a new Web page to garner public opinion on various health IT initiatives, beginning with the topic of consumer...
March 28, 2013 2:19 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
Clinical Documentation,
clinical trials,
EHR,
EHR adoptionProponents of EHR adoption often talk about how the technology will support clinical trials by making it easier to recruit patients and get them signed up for appropriate studies. By eliminating manual reviews of paper records, EHRs could, in theory, reduce the time clinical trials researchers...
March 22, 2013 12:09 PM
Posted by: EmilyHuizenga
big data,
CDS and data analytics,
data mining,
EHR implementation,
EHR systems,
IHT2Coupling EHRs with new analytics tools and normalizing best big data practices will be key to effectively utilizing big data in the health care industry, an Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) report concludes.
And those best-practices are needed, stat. The
March 20, 2013 3:00 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
Cerner,
EHR implementation,
EHR safety,
EHR usability,
Epic,
KLAS,
mckesson,
Uncategorized“As suggested by the new 2014 certification standards, vendors should take more responsibility for both the usability and safety of their products. These responsibilities shouldn’t be the sole purview of healthcare organizations and providers like they have been until now.”
So said one...
March 15, 2013 2:46 PM
Posted by: EmilyHuizenga
EHR,
HIE,
VITLThe Vermont Information Technology Leaders, Inc. (VITL) released its annual progress report, which documented an increase in EHR implementation among Vermont health care providers, a successful push to connect hospitals to the state health information network and increase residents' representation...
March 11, 2013 10:18 AM
Posted by: EdBurns
EHR implementation,
Farzad Mostashari,
Kathleen Sebelius,
Marilyn Tavenner,
Meaningful useBefore National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, M.D., took the stage to deliver his keynote address on the final day of HIMSS 2013, organizers played a prerecorded video message from HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She spoke briefly about how to measure the success of health IT...
