February 26, 2013 12:09 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
ACO,
CMS,
HIE,
RHIO,
state HIEsNearly $300 million will be awarded to states as the first recipients of the state innovation model awards, funded through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Department of Health and Human Services....
February 5, 2013 1:54 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
analytics,
health IT,
quality of careFederally qualified health centers that use health IT improve their quality of care, according to a study that hinges on a facility’s current use of technology, or health IT capacity. Facilities were categorized as...
January 31, 2013 5:49 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
ACO,
clinical quality measures,
EHR,
health reform,
Meaningful use,
quality reportingCurrently available electronic health record systems are not capable of accurately capturing and reporting clinical quality data, according to a new comment letter from the College of Healthcare...
December 18, 2012 12:52 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
accountable care organizations,
ACO,
CCHIT,
EHR certification,
ONCAn IT model for accountable care organizations (ACOs) is being developed by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT). CCHIT is authorized by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT to certify electronic health record products.
November 28, 2012 1:24 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
accountable care organizations,
ACO,
EHR incentives,
meaningful use stage 2,
RSNACHICAGO – There's a definite chill at this year's Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) Scientific Assembly and Annual Meeting, and it's not just the unseasonably cold temperatures made more miserable by the gray skies and wind whipping off Lake Michigan. Vendors have again crammed...
November 8, 2012 2:14 PM
Posted by: EdBurns
ACO,
Affordable Care Act,
health insurance,
HIEThe recent purchase of HIE vendor Certify Data Systems by insurance giant Humana raises some interesting questions about what kind of future health insurance companies are planning for. In an...
October 4, 2012 11:59 AM
Posted by: EdBurns
ACO,
EHR vendors,
standardsLast week we reported on how some health care IT executives feel that the stage 2 meaningful use rule requiring physicians to exchange information with other professionals who...
September 19, 2012 1:43 PM
Posted by: DonFluckinger
accountable care organizations,
Atul Gawande,
Cheesecake Factory,
Health care reform and federal initiativesA couple things must be said before we get into this. One: The last thing I want to do is start a blog beef with health care thought leader and Boston physician Atul Gawande, M.D. whose thought-provoking New Yorker...
September 11, 2012 12:25 PM
Posted by: adelvecchio
EHR,
FDA,
health IT,
UDIThe Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Center for Devices and Radiological Health released its preliminary report calling for more widespread use of postmarket medical device surveillance and is encouraging medical facilities to cooperate with their recommendations.
The agency hopes to...
