Should you hitch your wagon to your state or community HIE and why? That is the question many healthcare organizations and providers are considering as pressures growing for health information exchange (HIE). As providers prepare for Stage 2 Meaningful Use, there is a greater focus on data sha...
Read moreDetails about the pre- and post-payment meaningful use audits are slowly trickling down from CMS and EHR Incentive program participants who have completed the process. While many physicians are still nervous about receiving their letter from Figliozzi & Co., Massachusetts-based EHR vendor a...
Read moreMost people spend the majority of their day at work, staring at a computer or completing a series of tasks that eventually become routine. Even if they love their jobs, many workers have mental or physical issues, from depression to binge eating to insomnia, that follow them to the office and c...
Read moreDepending on the size of a health system and the number of health IT systems it employs, transitions of care between clinical settings within a healthcare organization could involve a significant number of computer-related activities to ensure that all the information pertinent to treating a pati...
Read morePatients with diseases such as diabetes produce valuable data regularly, some of which can prevent serious medical events from escalating if providers are able to intervene more quickly and directly. For these patients, medical device integration and patient engagement are seemingly one and the s...
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Responding to a controversial white paper released by a group of Republican Senators last month, former Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman wrote a guest post on Health Data Management defending the EHR Incentive Program and meaningful use. Quoting futurist ...
Not satisfied with Republican Congressman Ted Poe’s efforts to stop ICD-10 by introducing a bill to the House of Representatives last month, Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) has put forward the same bill, the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, in the S...
The American Hospital Association (AHA) applauding the sponsoring of a new bill to improve the work of Medicare Recovery Audit Contractors (RACs). In a letter to Senator Roy Blunt (R-MO), sponsor of Medicare Audit Improvement Act of 2013 (S. 1012), the...
The communities participating in the Beacon Community Program have taught the entire healthcare community a valuable lesson about health information exchange (HIE) that HIEs are valued where they address a real business need, according to the National ...
The HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) has added its comments in response to a recent white paper released by a group of U.S. Senators questioning the trajectory of meaningful use. Following CHIME and a consortium of consumer groups, E...
At a brief press conference on Wednesday, journalists watched in slightly bemused fascination as Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisitions, Technology, and Logistics Frank Kendall attempted to explain the Department of Defense’s new direction in it...
Two recent announcements show increased support for health information exchange (HIE), one financial and the other technical. The first announcement comes from the University of California at Davis whose Institute for Population Health Improvement m...
The number of eligible professionals and hospitals meaningfully using electronic health records has doubled in the last year, according an announcement by Department of Health & Human Services. In a public statement, HHS Secretary revealed that the...
Should you hitch your wagon to your state or community HIE and why? That is the question many healthcare organizations and providers are considering as pressures growing for health information exchange (HIE). As providers prepare for Stage 2 Meaning...
Details about the pre- and post-payment meaningful use audits are slowly trickling down from CMS and EHR Incentive program participants who have completed the process. While many physicians are still nervous about receiving their letter from Figliozz...
