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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The regulations do this by altering how a hospital gets paid based on how well their data moves out of their computers.

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Ed Grogan, VP & CIO, Calvert Health System, Chapter 2

Health System CIO

NextGen’s community HIE Attesting to MU 2 (acute in 2014, ambulatory in 2015) Push & pull methods of data exchange CRISP’s magic button to give docs “a broader scale of information.” Attesting to MU 2 (acute in 2014, ambulatory in 2015). Patient-centered medical homes: “It’s not just high tech; it’s high touch.”

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A new focus: How to become empowered patients

Meaningful HIT News

The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. The Meaningful Use program remains unchanged for hospitals.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away. How Will the Market Respond?

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The Year 2014 in Review

eHealth

There were several other chapter meetings, chapter leader institute, meaningful use meeting and the Nursing Informatics Institute, all well delivered HIMSS events. Looking forward to developing a second level course on analytics in 2015. In 2015, there will be few posts here but more at HIMSS and LinkedIn.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Perhaps more importantly, Meaningful Use spurred adoption on the provider side, requiring that providers use certified EHRs to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds. It also converged on HL7 2.5.1

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.