With all the changes happening to Meaningful Use, Quality Measurement, and MACRA in 2016, I’ve been asked many questions by many organizations to help them plan for the future. As I’ve said many times, one of the great challenges we have is that the 2015 Edition final rule has an enormous scope extending beyond Meaningful Use with the notion that it can be coupled to every government healthcare IT program. Standards need to be based on requirements and specific use cases with little optionality, so creating a broadly scoped rule before the use cases are known just doesn’t work...
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CHIME Wants 1-Year Extension Of Meaningful Use Stage 2
Dan Bowman | FierceEMR | May 6, 2013
In response to a call last month from six GOP senators to reboot the Meaningful Use incentive program, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives said, instead, it would like to see more time given to providers, payers and vendors to meet Stage 2 to allow the program to flourish. Read More »
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Chuck Hagel’s Assessment Of iEHR: “I Didn’t Think We Knew What The Hell We Were Doing.”
Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel testified before a Congressional hearing yesterday about the Integrated Electronic Health Record project: “I didn’t think we knew what the hell we were doing.” I’m glad that he put the stop to the effort after only $1 billion, the UK National Health Service blew an incredible $17 billion before pulling the plug. Read More »
Posted April 19, 2013 - 12:57pm by Crista Herr
Chuck Lauer: An IT Boondoggle?
Chuck Lauer | Becker's Hospital Review | October 8, 2012
A recent Wall Street Journal article left me speechless. Like a lot of other people in healthcare I have been indoctrinated with the belief that unless the industry fully and enthusiastically adopts information technology, hospital and health systems will never run efficiently and be able to deliver quality healthcare to patients... Read More »
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Cigna Named 2013 Red Hat Innovator of the Year
Press Release |
Cigna, Red Hat, Inc. |
July 15, 2013
Cigna recognized for successful Infrastructure-as-a-Service transformation project built with Red Hat solutions Read More »
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CIO Halamka Highlights 5 Health IT Challenges In Year Ahead
Kyle Murphy | EHR Intelligence | September 4, 2013
One question that healthcare CIOs are asked time and time again to answer is: What keeps you up at night? Answers to the question vary depending on the type of organization the CIO works for and the complexity of the health IT systems it maintains or is planning to implement. Read More »
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CIO Spotlight Episode 2: Barry Blumenfeld, MD
Erin McCann | Healthcare IT News | November 28, 2012
Barry Blumenfeld, MD, MS, CIO of MaineHealth and Maine Medical Center, discusses rollout of the Epic EMR, the slow adoption of voice recognition, and his relief over the recent presidential election for the state of healthcare IT. Read More »
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City of Leeds Blazing a Trail with an Open Platform Person Held Record
Press Release |
Ripple Foundation |
May 10, 2017
Leeds is leading the way in developing and piloting an open platform based Person Held Record (PHR) for local people. It follows extensive engagement with individuals, care professionals and stakeholders across the city to understand their needs and aspirations. It is believed a PHR will help people to better manage and control their own care and wellbeing and help prevent further health issues...
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Clarifying MACRA Certification Requirements for Hospitals
By John D. Halamka, MD | September 14, 2016
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Clinical Leader Interviews Clinovo On Trends, Benefits And Strategies In The Adoption Of Electronic Data Capture (EDC) Systems
Press Release |
Clinovo, Clinical Leader |
December 10, 2014
Glenn Keet, CEO of Silicon Valley-based Clinovo, an eClinical systems provider, is featured in Clinical Leader, the premier online community and leading media for clinical trial experts, in an exclusive interview titled “EDC In Clinical Trials – Can You Afford Not To Go Electronic? In that interview led by Ed Miseta, Chief Editor at Outsourced Pharma and Clinical Leader, Keet’s gives a unique perspective on the technology advances in the life science industry and the adoption of electronic data capture (EDC) systems in clinical trials. Keet explains how only 20% of worldwide clinical trials are using electronic data capture (EDC) systems, discussing the misconceptions around the costs and complexity to adopt EDC technologies.
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Clinovo Adds Broad Expertise To Board Of Directors
Press Release |
Clinovo |
December 18, 2013
Fast-growing eClinical Solutions provider Clinovo today announced two additions to their board of directors: Jean-Louis Bories, angel investor at Band of Angels, and Glenn Keet, a leader in the health information technology industry. Read More »
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Clinton & Topol Preach the Importance of Evolution in Healthcare
Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | March 8, 2013
For all of their differences, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and cardiologist Eric Topol--the West Endowed Chair of Innovative Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, Calif.--delivered a similar message in their respective keynote addresses this week at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society's annual conference... Read More »
Cloud devs: We Could Have Saved Buggy HealthCare.gov
Christina Farr | VentureBeat | October 14, 2013
Millions of Americans flooded the new health insurance marketplaces when they opened for business earlier this month. What we didn’t expect were the glitches, bugs, error messages, and a website that looks like it’s from 10 years ago. Almost two weeks later, people are still struggling to log in to the Obama administration’s online insurance marketplace, HealthCare.gov, let alone shop for insurance. Read More »
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Cloud-Based EHRs Could Save Docs From Acquisition
Susan D. Hall | FierceEMR | September 5, 2013
Upgrading software to more fully integrate revenue cycle management, practice management and electronic health records may be the key to helping thousands of physician practices remain independent, according to a new Black Book survey. Read More »
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Cloud-Based EHRs With Integrated Billing Solutions May Save Thousands Of Independent Physicians From Acquisition, Reveals Black Book RCM Study
Press Release |
Black Book Rankings |
September 3, 2013
Nearly ten percent of physician practices are acquiescing to takeover offers from hospitals and larger medical groups, while more autonomous doctors confront the fallout from owning outmoded billing systems and unworkable electronic health records. However, Black Book surveys detect a defiant tipping point from the majority of independent physicians recently shifting to replacement EHRs... Read More »
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Cloud-Based EMRs
Eric Gombrich | Executive Insight | April 25, 2013
The concept of patient-centered health is a growing theme in healthcare. Terms such as "patient engagement," "patient-based" and even "patient-centric" are used ubiquitously as though they all mean the same thing and deliver benefits to both providers and patients. [...] But does patient-centered care actually activate patients to become more responsible for their health and wellness? Not quite, but EMRs are the start to that transformational model of care. Read More »
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