Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

Since its founding in 2005, MAeHC has worked to improve the safety, efficiency and quality of healthcare delivery in the state by guiding organizations in the implementation and meaningful use of health IT. It has also spearheaded interoperability, standards development and HIT policy initiatives.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. We are collecting so much data now,” continued Mueller. It’s now up to us to ensure that data is accurate, timely, and useful.

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FierceHealthIT

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Basic data exchange is getting easier, thanks in part to Meaningful Use, but provider organizations are lagging when it comes to new consumer-centric digital tools, according to a new survey from CHIME.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

said more data is also needed – including from providers – about the costs of telehealth. Wolf also pointed out that the recent bloom in telehealth is rooted, in part, in the government's electronic health record incentive program and meaningful use. " Rep. David Schweikert, R-Ariz.,

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 25, 2018

Buried underneath changes to the Meaningful Use program, a newly proposed hospital payment rule includes the possibility of more stringent requirements that would require providers to share data to participate in the Medicare program. Experts said the agency could also leverage that approach to give TEFCA more teeth.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 25, 2018

argonaut) -- meeting the Meaningful Use "API" requirement. Would it be reasonable to expect that the Meaningful Use "Download" (from View/Download/Transfer) capability would be offered in FHIR format? Concern would come up when this export of $everything includes other data such as documents and images.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 15, 2023

And it should be easy to use too. According to Dr. Blackman, when EHRs were first rolled out in the pre Meaningful Use days, the primary goals was to make billing easier and more accurate. Job #1 for an EHR “An EHR should help people provide better care,” Dr. Blackman stated emphatically. It’s just that simple.”

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Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

Each provider may use a separate IT system, with each system pulling from various data sources. Rather, the person’s care history and data are in disparate pieces. This leaves patient data sprinkled across systems, and physicians may find it difficult or impossible to access data at a crucial time – the point of care.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Studying the data from our customers' patients allows us to have access to somewhere between 100 million and 200 million patients right now. EHRN is looking at that data and trying to find out, especially with COVID-19 right now, what is there that we should share. And all you know is the patient's name.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

" Healthcare suddenly finds itself amid a paradigm shift, where a profusion of real-time clinical and social health data, broadband connectivity, personal devices, sensors, apps, digital therapeutics and more are transforming delivery away from acute care settings and into the larger community.

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 29, 2019

CMS audit turns up more inappropriate meaningful use payments — Early lessons on patient generated health data

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the flu season has peaked; the Joint Commission releases its 2017 sentinel event data; plus more healthcare news from around the web.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

High-quality, reliable data is crucial to getting most things done in healthcare, especially for healthcare interoperability. However, having the data alone isn’t enough – we need to be able to share our data between healthcare entities. eHealth Exchange is proud to be one of the first Designated QHINs.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

Cybersecurity is a Patient Safety Issue – Imprivata According to Wes Wright, Chief Technology Officer at Imprivata , cybersecurity in healthcare should be considered a patient safety issue since it impacts patient data and patient outcomes when that data is rendered inaccessible.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Data Blocking & Interoperability. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare. Legal Cases & Violations

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

—Matt Doyle @EpicShares #HIMSS23 #RealTalk #TEFCA pic.twitter.com/NtV2inP8Bq — CommonWell Health Alliance (@CommonWell) April 18, 2023 It’s become clear to me that exchanging healthcare data is going to include multiple layers. There’s no one solution that will solve the health data sharing problem.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Thanks to the regulations included as part of meaningful use, the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA) and the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), every healthcare provider using certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) has access to Direct Secure Messaging.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

We spoke a bit about the TEFCA — the interoperability framework proposed by ONC under the 21st Century Cures Act — which is intended to create a framework of trust that will ensure that healthcare records can be transferred and used in creation of longitudinal records for everyone. Gregory Church, CEO 4Medica. David Harlow.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

As such, the EHR product roadmap changed to ensure that you could meet the EHR certification and meaningful use requirements. eClinicalWorks — John Lynn (@techguy) May 23, 2023 One other amazing thing that is happening is the confluence of multiple technologies, data sources, etc. This is key in healthcare.

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Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Kentucky HIE — “They’re doing a good job matching patient data” Working with UK to connect schools with primary care clinics Why telehealth is “sputtering” Dividing & conquering MU Meditech in the hospital & medical group Partnering with Bon Secours on an ACO – “We’re just starting down that path.” McCleese also talks about St.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024. Jolie Ritzo outline how Civitas Networks for Health is standardizing SDOH data, harnessing AI, and promoting consent management in alignment with the needs of its member organizations.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Having a certified EMR qualified physician practices for government incentive dollars to digitize medical records (similar to the meaningful use program in the US, just on a smaller scale). The organization has evolved and now is a champion for interoperability, data standards, analytics, eForms, and other technologies.

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EMR Meaningful Use Healthcare IT Interoperability 131

Redox

MAY 6, 2024

In the first two posts, I covered how Redox is overcoming current limitations with bulk FHIR and translating data between HL7 ® v2 and HL7 ® FHIR ®. Carequality is a nonprofit organization that has developed a framework for trusted, standards-based data exchange between healthcare organizations. Let’s dive in. What is Carequality?

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Health System CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

“Significant capital investments” in analytics Updated IS strategic plan Data highway — “It’s not enough just to be able to interface systems.” In this interview, he talks about the multi-year Phoenix Project at U of C, what it’s like to be work in a translational research environment; and where his team stands with Meaningful Use.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

That’s because they weren’t invented to help clinicians in the first place. Users are doomed to excessive clicking, scrolling, page-switching, and toggling. The upshot? What should be patient face time becomes screen time.

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EHR Health Information Meaningful Use Nursing 128

Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

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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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

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. Evidence for the positive impact of this data on quality, satisfaction, and in some cases cost is thin but growing.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Michael shared these pictures along with the news that his hospital had achieved HIMSS Analytics Stage 6, Meaningful Use Stage 3, and received the 2019 Most Wired Hospital award that is now being […]. I was really impressed recently by a couple pictures my friend, Michael Archuleta, CIO at Mt San Rafael Hospital shared with me.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

HealthPolicyValentines [link] — Jared Jeffery (@Jk_Jeffery) February 12, 2024 One more…I promise: Roses are red, data is blue, Computers are fun, But Meaningful Use sucks without you. Less fragmented health data. Telephone lines to HIEs, to @CarequalityNet & QHINs. What does that mean for patients?

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Health System CIO

JUNE 2, 2015

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.” Push & pull methods of data exchange. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

At the HLTH conference last month, I had a chance to talk with Ricky Sahu, CEO at 1upHealth. For those not familiar with 1upHealth, the provide a FHIR platform for payers, providers, and developers.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This hasn’t been made clear yet due in part to the fourth and final guidance session on clinical outcome assessment data yet to occur in 2023. Now more than ever, thanks to the FDA taking the plunge with us, patients have proper validation to ensure that trial design has endpoints and outcomes with meaningful use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

During the boom that was meaningful use and adoption of EHR software, consulting companies played an integral role in almost every large healthcare organization when it came to rolling out EHR software. One of the most interesting evolutions in healthcare IT has been the evolution of healthcare IT staffing and consulting companies.

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Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

Recently, there have been renewed calls for scaling back the certification program and its many criteria, citing the maturation of the EHR incentive programs (meaningful use) and the fact that some of the certification criteria define capabilities that are not invoked by the incentive programs. ” I disagree.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2024

The Argument for AI Sounds Eerily Familiar While there are many reasons why physicians are hesitant to implement ambient clinical voice solutions – like the potential for hallicinations and the unknown biases in AI training data – Dr. Blackman suggests that the cause may be something simpler.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 17, 2018

Federal healthcare organizations, such as CMS, have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap. By Thanh Tran, CEO, Zoeticx.

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