Meaningful Use (MU)

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HealtheConnections RHIO Transitioning HIE Platform To Mirth Corporation

Press Release | HealtheConnections, Mirth Corporation | February 5, 2013

HealtheConnections, the Regional Health Information Organization (RHIO) supporting the 1.4 million lives in Central New York, today announced that it is partnering with Mirth Corporation to upgrade and expand its capabilities and reach. Read More »

Healtheway Interoperability Initiative Will Push For Standardized Connectivity

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | February 24, 2014

Healtheway, the nonprofit public/private collaborative chartered to advance the nationwide implementation of interoperable health information exchange, has unveiled a new initiative to bring the industry together to provide a standardized framework for connectivity. Read More »

Healthy Skepticism – Jared Sinclair's Critique of HealthKit as Both an iOS Developer and Registered Nurse

Of the many new APIs announced at WWDC this summer, HealthKit has been particularly thought-provoking for me. At the risk of sounding like that guy, I think I have a somewhat priviledged perspective of HealthKit. There can’t be that many former registered nurses who’ve switched to iOS app development and tried to start a healthcare data company.

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Heavyweights Lead Charge For More Time On EHR Meaningful Use

Joseph Conn | Modern Publication | September 6, 2014

A host of heavyweight healthcare organizations is calling for HHS to back off of the requirement to meet meaningful-use criteria for all of 2015 for the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment program, insisting that the future of the program is at stake...

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HHS on EMR Adoption and Paying to Keep People Healthy

Brian Klein | medGadget | October 3, 2011

Over 80,000 providers, as of July 31 of this year, had registered to participate in the meaningful use program, which is a great start. Read More »

HHS Pulls EHRMagic Certification

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | April 26, 2013

Hospital officials were divided in their reactions to news late Thursday that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services had revoked the certification of two electronic health record systems for failure to meet the standards of the Meaningful Use incentive program. Read More »

HHS Steps Back On NwHIN Governance

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | September 7, 2012

HHS, through its Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, has decided to punt on its previous drive to regulate the proposed nationwide health information network. Read More »

HIE, EHR Familiarity Grows, But Provider Frustrations Remain

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | February 22, 2013

A newly-released survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that while nearly all physicians have heard of the EHR Incentive Program, health information exchange, and other electronic data initiatives, frustration among participants remains high. Read More »

HIE, Interoperability Still Center Stage

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | August 8, 2013

As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, his office and  the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services are looking to the future and plotting long-term information exchange and interoperability policy strategies. Read More »

HIE, REC Funding Drying Up Despite Need

Anthony Brino | Healthcare IT News | May 13, 2014

Despite many physicians and hospitals now meaningfully using electronic health records, there's still a huge gap when it comes to these providers actually exchanging patient data. That reality has some regional extension centers taking up the work of health information exchange. The funding, however, is often hard to come by...

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High Turnover of EHR Vendors According to KLAS Report

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | July 18, 2012

The game is still afoot for a swarm of electronic health-record system developers—in particular those that don't have the best-known brands, according to the latest report from KLAS Enterprises on the ambulatory EHR market. Read More »

HIMSS 2012 in Retrospect – From Patient Engagement to Big Data. Viva Las Vegas or Tumbling Dice?

Jane Sarasohn-Kahn | Health Populi | February 24, 2012

The record attendance at HIMSS12, in terms of both attendees (numbering some 38,000) and exhibitors, illustrated just how hot health information technology has become in the 20 years since I first began attending this meeting — when it was only a few thousand hospital computer geeks and materials managers picking up pocket protectors and calculators from vendors. Read More »

HIMSS Analytics: Hospitals Slow To Progress In Their Use Of EHRs

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | October 22, 2013

Many hospitals have implemented electronic health record systems, but they're not rushing to embrace all that they may offer according to a new report from HIMSS Analytics. Read More »

HIMSS Analytics: Lack Of Health IT Workers May Delay EHR Adoption

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 15, 2013

The inaugural HIMSS Analytics Workforce Survey shows that while health IT hiring was robust in 2012, there was a shortage of qualified applicants for information technology positions, possibly resulting in a delay for EHR implementations and the key provisions of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Read More »

HIMSS EHR Association Fires Back At GOP Senators Calling For MU reboot

Mike Milliard | Government Health IT | May 22, 2013

One month after six Republican Senators published a white paper calling for a new approach to the federal meaningful use incentive program, the HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association has drafted a point-by-point response. Read More »