CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

EHR 26

EHR Meaningful Use HIE Medicare 26

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.

Interoperability 113

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 113

TheraNest

AUGUST 4, 2019

Choosing mental health software for electronic health records (EHR) can be tricky. From practice size to growth trajectory to deciding to do your own billing–every detail must be accounted for to ensure you choose an EHR system that is the best fit for you. One of the most important issues surrounding EHR is the security of records.

Mental health 61

Mental health EHR Private practice Meaningful Use 61

Health System CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

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. A lot of larger organizations have a team of people that are dedicated just to focus on Meaningful Use. Bold Statements. I don’t have that luxury.

HIE 60

HIE Meaningful Use Nursing Primary Care 60

Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

These formal training programs will result in the development of a cadre of HIT workers who can help rural hospitals and clinics implement and maintain systems, such as electronic health records (EHR), telehealth, home monitoring and mobile health technology, and meet EHR meaningful use standards.

Health IT 32

Health IT Meaningful Use EHR Mobile Health 32

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc. Achieves Electronic Data Reporting.

eHealth 32

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

We believe TEFCA will lead to additional exchange partners and eventually will support additional use cases beyond queries for treatment and individual access. Fragmented systems are a major hurdle, as diverse EHR systems often lack compatibility, making seamless data sharing difficult.

Interoperability 73

Interoperability eHealth FHIR EHR 73

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. DeSalvo meets and greets – briefly – while Tavenner keeps her distance at HIMSS (March 3). Related posts: Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition.

Meaningful Use 28

Meaningful Use HIE Interoperability EHR 28

Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

EHRs Look Inward. EHR vendors are at last developing moderate to advanced functionality with their portals (refills, secure communication, education, scheduling), with improved UX/UI that is starting to conform to consumer tech standards. HIEs Look Backward.

HIE 60

HIE EHR Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Chilmark Research

OCTOBER 1, 2014

A related issue emerging on the delivery system side is the backlog of dashboard style tools, which were part of nearly every clinically oriented demo or slidedeck we saw, from EHR to analytics vendors, not to mention the mushrooming number of care coordination plays out there. EHR Vendors: Mixed Reviews.

EHR 60

EHR Meaningful Use Leadership Nursing 60

Import Immunity

MARCH 23, 2015

My plan was to just go quietly into the night, but looking through the recently-released Meaningful Use 3 requirements convinced me that I really ought to put this out there. When I first testified at a FACA meeting in 2009 (six years ago!) — I talked about the “Connectathon” problem. The Connectathon Problem.

Interoperability 68

Interoperability EHR Meaningful Use HIPAA 68

Docnotes

AUGUST 15, 2016

ONC’s annual meeting – an event that costs several hundred thousand dollars and attracts the same participants every year – adds rather little to the nation’s progress toward improved health through the strategic use of health IT. Why was this?

EHR 45

EHR Meaningful Use Health IT 45

Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Apple recently announced that its mobile Health app will link to electronic health record (EHR) systems. While companies like Microsoft launched PHR platforms such as HealthVault a number of years ago, most of these PHRs were not linked to EHRs. This will allow patients/consumers access to their personal health record (PHR).

FHIR 32

FHIR Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 32

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

Today, The Department of Justice issued an announcement that was “the first ever criminal action against an EHR vendor.” I wasn’t very involved with this team, but due to my ownership of many of the clinical decision support initiatives, I started getting invited to meetings we had with pharmaceutical companies.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals EHR Life Science Pain management 40

CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic data exchange? There is a lot of work to be done by all of us—and your voice needs to be heard.

eHealth 30

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 30

David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

The new CIO must make sure he or she is recognized as the go-to person for help on integrating technologies, ensuring they meet corporate policies and getting the right price, rather than the leader of complex vendor selections for specific business units.” Optimizing the EHR to improve clinician productivity 2.

EHR 40

EHR Meaningful Use Digital Health Leadership 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

I am however happy to use IHE-ATNA as the marketing tag. 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 goes up another layer and explains how one would apply the very same standards above to an EHR.

FHIR 40

FHIR EHR Meaningful Use 40

Redox

APRIL 13, 2023

This is actually a recording from a recent internal all-hands team meeting at Redox. We often invite customers to these so we can learn more about how they’re using Redox, collect feedback, and better understand the impact that they’re making in the industry. One, right now, I have eight EHRs, eight separate.

EHR 52

EHR Interoperability Meaningful Use Digital Health 52

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. The regs were finalized in 2003.) See my note about layered NPPs, above.

HIPAA 60

HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. The regs were finalized in 2003.) See my note about layered NPPs, above.

HIPAA 60

HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

We are passionate and dedicated to working with healthcare partners, RCM leaders and clinicians to put our extensive pool of primary-sourced data to meaningful use. You’re seeing more and more of this specifically within the EHR side. Good timing. That culture needs to permeate through.

RCM 52

RCM Healthcare IT EMR Meaningful Use 52

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred said his colleagues on the task force were real “heavyweights” from government and industry, and that he ended up being a voice for health IT — People on the task force know a lot about cybersecurity, but not as much about how EHRs and PHRs work. Now EHRs — and PHRs — are more accessible.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT HIPAA 60

Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred said his colleagues on the task force were real “heavyweights” from government and industry, and that he ended up being a voice for health IT — People on the task force know a lot about cybersecurity, but not as much about how EHRs and PHRs work. Now EHRs — and PHRs — are more accessible.

EHR 60

EHR Medicare Health IT HIPAA 60

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. This is likely the paragraph that will get me in the most trouble.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52

Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Unfortunately, despite this good news, there are still major technological and logistic hurdles between now and us all meeting up at HIMSS 2021 like “Wow, what a year that was, huh?”. Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades.

Meaningful Use 52

Meaningful Use EHR Public Health Medicare 52