Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 5, 2023

NYeC supports providers in navigating the complex landscape of healthcare information technology provider assistance programs, practice transformation, vendor selection, Promoting Interoperability (formerly Meaningful Use) attestation, and health information exchange utilization.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 31, 2024

For context, here is a claim from the website of a defunct EHR (courtesy of the Internet Archive ): The ease of use and flexibility of the EMR will let you practice the way you want, providing you with the tools you need to bring higher efficiency to your practice.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information. Follow the money.

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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

By the power vested in clinical research, the FDA now pronounces us patient and industry. The FDA issued a series of four patient-focused drug development (PFDD) guidance documents which outline how patient co-design needs to successfully happen. You may now kiss the cancer survivor.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Open and well-documented APIs are a must-have. Dr Tim Davis has been successful because his chosen EHR platform, Dr. Chrono, has open and well-documented APIs which has allowed the team at BluByrd to build a solution that is designed specifically for the needs of pain and surgical centers. DrChrono has been supportive of BluByrd.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Further, the right interoperable healthcare solutions and revenue cycle performance services can reduce the risk of Medicare Incentive Payment System (MIPS) and Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) penalties. His team constantly engages with clients to document problems and prioritize the highest-impact issues his team needs to solve.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. If you can adopt and change your practice and how you document and how you order, we’ll meet you halfway and try to make the process as easy as we possibly can. Bold Statements. Our biggest challenge was getting CPOE up and running.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

The protocols for documentation are vastly different for a behavioral health patient, and so traditional EHRs typically don’t include the forms and templates that team members need to help behavioral health teams evaluate the patient. As such, these legacy EHRs were designed with very different workflows in mind.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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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 Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”. Thus it targeted use of HTTP RESTful, using JSON encoding. The Mobile Health Documents (MHD) profile was born to provide a more simple API to an XDS environment.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

These historic events need to have the full context of them, which is what a Document model provides. The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear. Today the GP drives everything.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2016

And are they supposed to be ignored on the Client side (If I am a Document Source sending a document to a repository) or on the Server side (I am a registry accepting a query from a Document Consumer)? Are we supposed to ignore Common name mismatch errors entirely? I will really appreciate any more information on this.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

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. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes. I’d like to discuss what I believe are five areas of significant opportunity for quality technologies.

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Redox

MAY 6, 2024

After years of turning willing prospects away and crying myself to sleep because I had to tell people “no,” a big change happened in the summer of 2023: Carequality introduced a new pathway for software vendors and other companies to be able to meaningfully use Carequality, even if they don’t employ clinicians.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. This federal regulatory document called for sharing EHR data with. In fact, the wave of patient portal deployment wasn’t caused by patients’ interest. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 26, 2015

Blog Articles on Secure Communications Testing ATNA Secure Communications Direct addresses- Trusted vs Trustable Identity - - Proofing Securing RESTful services IHE Encryption choices Healthcare use of X.509

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 27, 2012

The transport identified in Meaningful Use 2 as (b) is NOT a transport, it is a functional specification for a service that converts Direct to/from XDR. IHE has adopted this minimal metadata directly into XDR specification and XDM specification --> Support for Metadata - Limited Document Sources.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With past initiatives such as Meaningful Use (MU) stage 2 patient portal requirements only requiring 5% of patients to view, download, or transmit their health record , the bar was already set low. For example: wanting to send patient education documents electronically rather than printing. Define measures of success.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 4, 2018

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. Introducing a system that was built around an environment that had shifted massively because of Meaningful Use has made people sit up and take notice of Meditech.

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Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

There are exceptions to every norm however, and PracticeFusion’s announcement of two health monitoring partnerships with AliveCor and DiaSend was an encouraging acknowledgement that the EHR can and should become more than a point of care documentation system. HIEs Look Backward. Conclusions: Signs of Progress.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

Don Rucker, Chief Strategy Officer at 1upHealth Fundamentally, interoperability is advancing because healthcare is increasingly using modern RESTful FHIR APIs (a version of the RESTful JSON APIs that power the entire smartphone world).

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care innovations

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Lacktman agrees with this positive assessment, telling Wicklund that he was “overjoyed to read the proposed rule,” calling it “ a landmark change allowing providers to much more meaningfully use new technologies when delivering medical care.”.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I first met Ryan on a trip to San Francisco in ~ 2012, when he invited me to come to Practice Fusion to speak with the team about Health IT certification and the meaningful use incentive programs. Document pain scale in the flowsheets section of the encounter. Patient has pain documented and should have a pain care plan.

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HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 10, 2019

The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. Our application helps document that they gave the patient choices. I’m having the time of my life running this small company. What happens once you leave the hospital? They have to manage that closely.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This specification has been leveraged by many regional initiatives including in the USA the Meaningful Use Stage 2.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. So with this too many/too few framework – let’s parse the Kotter Edition and see how we are doing. HERO, therefore, opens the door to the same challenges we had with DSRIP.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics. That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly.

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