I’ve been writing fewer posts recently because the trajectory forward for healthcare and healthcare IT seems to be evolving very rapidly. In just the past week, we’ve had: the American Hospital Association letter suggesting that 21,000 pages of regulations be rolled back including Meaningful Use Stage Three concepts and quality measurement in many care settings, the passage of the 21st Century Cures bill and its many IT related mandates, and the nomination of Tom Price for HHS Secretary and Seema Verma for CMS administrator...
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'Not One Successful EHR System In Whole World'
Neil Versel | Information Week | December 17, 2012
While federal health IT officials were touting the perceived successes of their efforts to increase physician usage of electronic health records (EHRs), one longtime advocate of EHRs was criticizing the whole direction of health IT policy.
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10 Steps to Achieving Interoperability
Bernie Monegain | Healthcare IT News | December 9, 2015
When nine organizations -- several of them health IT vendors -- urged Congress in a Dec. 7 letter to resist delaying Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program, the plea came with an outline for strengthening interoperability. "What is clear to us is that current requirements and pace of the Meaningful Use program have taken away time and valuable resources from fixing our nation's interoperability problem, the organizations -- Apervita, athenahealth, Intel, National Alliance on Mental Illness, New Directions Technology Consulting, Oracle, United Spinal Association and Verizon -- wrote in their letter to Congressional leadership...
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21st Century Cures and the Road Ahead
By John D. Halamka, MD | December 7, 2016
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23% Of Medical Practices Considering EHR Switch, Survey Reveals
Brandon Glenn | Medical Economics | February 19, 2013
A new survey of nearly 17,000 active electronic health records (EHR) system users found that about 23% of currently implemented physician practices are frustrated enough to consider switching vendors. Read More »
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3 Reasons Most EHR Vendors Will Be Out Of Business By 2017
Susan D. Hall | FierceEMR | July 17, 2013
The crowded field of electronic health record vendors likely will be slashed to less than half by 2017, or by the implementation of Meaningful Use Stage 3--whichever comes first--according to a new Black Book Market Research report. Read More »
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5 Benefits Of Open Source Technology For MU
Mark Byers | Executive Insight | October 14, 2013
Founded on transparency and open standards, OS technology is a largely underexplored solution to meet MU criteria Read More »
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A Standard Model For Evaluating Return On Investment From Electronic Health Record Implementation
Jonathan Perlin | Health Affairs Blog | January 6, 2014
The Institute of Medicine (IOM) Roundtable on Value and Science-Driven Healthcare views electronic health information as a pillar for the improved effectiveness, efficiency and safety of health care. Information is also fundamental to the concept of a “learning health system,” which IOM has described as having the capacity both to apply and generate scientific evidence in the delivery of care. [...] Read More »
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AHRQ Announces Health IT Research Funding Opportunities
Sara Heath | EHR Intelligence | April 1, 2016
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) will be sponsoring research projects geared toward bettering health information technology, according to a public statement. Specifically, the agency seeks to support research for improving the safety of health IT to better inform policymakers at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), the Food and Drug Administration, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC)...
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Alfred Hitchcock and the Future of Health IT
By Bennett Lauber | November 10, 2015
Health IT is like the early Beatles. There are some really great applications out there, and in theory they should help to improve the lives of those that use them. In practice, there are a number of fundamental flaws that stem from not fully understanding the power of the technology that is used to present solutions to doctors and patients. We need to be more like Alfred Hitchcock! We are currently at the “elbow” of an exponential growth curve of mobile, connected applications. For a mobile application to be successfully in this new world, it needs to fully embrace the connected mobile technology and the power that a ubiquitous high speed network, that connects to a light weight, vibrating, touch screen, GPS, an accelerometer, camera, speakerphone, microphone, Bluetooth enabled device, along with serious amounts of computing power and data (and cloud) storage.
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AMA Board Chair: HHS Should Address EHR Usability Issues Immediately
Staff Writer | American Medical Association | May 15, 2013
The government needs to act quickly to remedy the impaired usability of electronic health records (EHR) if the technology's touted benefits are to be realized, AMA Board of Trustees Chair Steven J. Stack, MD (left), told officials during a federal hearing last week. Read More »
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American Medical Association Finally On Board With EHR Views Expressed On This Blog Since 2004
InformaticsMD | Health Care Renewal | May 17, 2013
It seems to have taken awhile, but organized medicine seems to finally be recognizing that today's commercial health IT is not quite the revolutionizing, transformative, plug-and-play panacea to healthcare's ills it is often touted as... Read More »
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AMIA: 10 Ways To Improve EHR Safety, Usability
Ashley Gold | FierceEMR | January 31, 2013
In response to questions about efficacy and safety of electronic health records, the American Medical Informatics Association published a position paper in its journal outlining 10 ways to reduce errors, imcrease patient safety and improve efficiency. Read More »
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As EHR User Fee Idea Dies, Certification Questions Linger
Anthony Brino | Government Health IT | August 8, 2013
The health information technology user fee proposed in the Department of Health and Human Service’s 2014 budget request is incredibly unlikely to pass Congress — so unlikely it’s a little odd Farzad Mostashari, MD, the national coordinator for health IT, defended it. Read More »
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Black Book Poll: Providers Demand Usability In EHR Replacement
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 18, 2013
“EHR backlash” is more than a popular hashtag on Twitter, and EHR usability still has a long, long way to go, according to a new poll of nearly 2900 providers conducted by Black Book Market Research. Read More »
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Black Book: 81% Of Practices Committed To EHR Replacement
Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | July 23, 2013
Unhappy physicians often daydream about being able to throw their cumbersome EHRs out the window, and plenty of providers are making that dream a reality, according to a new Black Book poll. [...] Read More »
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