Meaningful Use (MU)
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Q&A: Bettina Experton Talks About The iBlueButton App
Humetrix has given the iBlueButton a technical design boost as a multi- and cross-platform health information hub that patients and providers can use to share health data at the point of care with the most popular mobile tools. Read More »
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Q&A: Mostashari On Sequester, RECs, CommonWell
Interoperability and exchange are perhaps the most frequently spoken words at this year’s HIMSS13 conference. Yet they are only two among the many issues facing national coordinator Farzad Mostashari, MD, this week. Read More »
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Q&A: Mostashari on the Innovations Electronic Data Will Spark
Electronic health records are only a beginning of sorts. Although a top priority for providers, the meaningful use of EHRs is not the end goal – rather, the health data that EHRs make more accessible stands to unleash a wave of applications, products and services that ultimately catalyze improvements in health care, delivery and outcomes for both individual and population health. Read More »
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Q&A: Moving From A PCMH To A 'Medical Neighborhood' Via Direct
Sharing medical records between different vendors' EHRs is one of the meaningful use Stage 2 measures that some folks would like to see yanked – but not MedAllies' Holly Miller, MD, or John Blair, MD. Read More »
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Quality And Safety Implications Of Emergency Department Information Systems
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services “meaningful use” incentive programs [...] have galvanized hospital efforts to implement hospital-based electronic health records. Read More »
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Quebec's Electronic Records Plan A 'Disaster,' Barrette Says
As the provincial health department struggles to save $220 million under major health reform, its digital revolution has been a costly fiasco, conceded Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette...
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RAND Analysts Say Misaligned Incentives Hinder Interoperability
In 2005, several RAND Corporation researchers predicted that rapid adoption of electronic health records and health IT systems could save the greater U.S. healthcare system about $80 billion annually — not a huge amount of the $2 trillion spent that year, but worth it for the government and providers to invest money, labor and time. Read More »
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Readers Debate Causes of, Solutions to Limited EHR Usability
The advent of meaningful use is certainly responsible for increasing EHR adoption, but it hasn't ensured EHR usability and is likewise responsible oversaturating the EHR marketplace with health IT products which might have otherwise floundered without billions in EHR incentives. Recent research published in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA) finds that EHR usability is lacking among EHR vendors. Read More »
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REC: EHR Implementation Is A 'Psychological Roller Coaster'
Electronic health record adoption is a "psychological roller coaster" for small physician practices, according to a report by the Washington Idaho Regional Extension Center (WIREC). [...] Read More »
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RECs on a Mission: Assessing the Regional Extension Center Program
The Regional Extension Centers (RECs) faced a near impossible mission. Develop from scratch 62 RECs nationwide, staff them with in-demand health IT consultants, and then convince 100,000 small physician practices and critical access hospitals to either implement an electronic health record system or amp up their current one to meet the government's meaningful use EHR incentive program. And do it in 24 months. Read More »
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RECs: Physicians Still Face Meaningful Use Obstacles
Physicians are still encountering problems overcoming barriers to meeting the Meaningful Use requirements, according to the regional extension centers (RECs), which report to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. Read More »
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Redwood MedNet's HIE Plug: Low Cost Interoperability Solution For Small, Rural Practices
The latest Life as a CIO Blog by John D. Halamka features Will Ross of Redwood MedNet and the "HIE Plug" -- a low cost interoperability solution for small practices in rural locations. Read More »
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Reflecting On Our IT Progress
In a time of EHR naysayers, mean-spirited election year politics, and press misinterpretation (ONC and CMS do not intend to relax patient engagement provisions), it's important that we all send a unified message about our progress on the national priorities we've developed by consensus. Read More »
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Regina Holliday Advocates Patient Engagement at HIMSS12
In the past, gaining access to medical records was difficult at best. Now, as paper records are being replaced with electronic data, patients will have an opportunity to take greater control of their healthcare records. One vocal advocate for patient engagement is Regina Holliday and she has a unique approach. Regina uses art to share her message. She began her mission by painting a series of murals that depicted the need for clarity and transparency in medical records.
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Regional Extension Centers Aid States In Health Information Exchange, Quality Improvement
As REC funding dries up, organizations shift gears...As funding dries up for Regional Extension Centers, some are moving into a new market: Health information exchange and Meaningful Use support...
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