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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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Finding an EHR Partner Dr. Davis began his search for an EHR solution before the start of the Meaningful Use incentives in 2009. Back then, most of those systems were built for compliance and not built for ease-of-use. Davis needed to find an EHR platform that could meet the practices needs.

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In this interview, Rawlings provides her honest take on Meaningful Use — and why it’s much more challenging for community hospitals, and the strategy she employs when introducing change. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. They’re making their Meaningful Use numbers.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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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. There are lot of memories of those early days of EHRs.”

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These financial arrangements caused healthcare providers to submit false reimbursement claims for pathology services, along with false claims for Meaningful Use incentives arising from the use of ModMed’s technology. For example, in 2021 CareCloud Health agreed to pay $3.8

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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. #HealthPolicyValentines — Heather K (@korb_heather) February 12, 2024 Resurrecting this zinger from a couple years back.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019. Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. 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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Prior to the Meaningful Use incentives in 2005, only 20% of medical records were stored electronically. Putting Paper in the Rearview Mirror It wasn’t that long ago that HIM professionals were responsible for managing paper medical records. The era of rolling shelves, paperclips, and Dictaphones ended less than 20 years ago.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

To help all healthcare organizations implement proper cybersecurity measures, Wright suggests that governments consider a funding program like Meaningful Use which accelerated the adoption of EHRs. Chatbot for Triage – Mediktor Mediktor is a company that offers an AI chatbot for triage and pre-diagnosis.

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Health System CIO

DECEMBER 11, 2012

If UPMC acquires a smaller hospital, do you think they maintain the EMRs? For it to really take off, the payers have to say, ‘this is important to us. With everything we do, we say, ‘okay, we’re going to comply with Meaningful Use, but how do we make sure it’s an integrated solution?’ I would argue almost zero.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 10, 2023

For many clinicians, EHRs have actually been a disservice, a major factor in burnout. That’s because they weren’t invented to help clinicians in the first place.

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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. If you were an EHR company at this time, you quickly realized that you weren’t going to make any sales if you weren’t certified.

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eVisit

JULY 8, 2019

Published by HIMSS Media, this is a reliable, daily updated source for all your healthcare IT news, whether you're looking for the most recent updates on meaningful use rules, tips for implementing your EMR successfully, or are wondering how to leverage patient data to provide better care.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. 3:10 New ONC EHR certification proposal and continued questions about Meaningful Use Stage 2. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs. EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25

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care innovations

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

Quite a bit of this is inspired by ONC’s Meaningful Use, telehealth reimbursement models, and new CMS programs mandating effective change. Over the course of his career, Enrique has productized network management tools, partner portals, telemedicine solutions, healthcare exchanges, and a virtual scribe service integrated into EMRs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Insights Condition (EHR Reporting Program) In addition to a timeframe that is too short to adequately prepare, recruit clients, execute, and submit reports, the proposed Insights measures harken back to the early days of the meaningful use program but without incentives for providers to cooperate.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. NantHealth launches Clinical Operating System – biggest of big data startups – with $1B (Feb. Body + biology + behavior: Intel exec explains how technology is making N=1 care possible (Feb.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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. A related motivation was suggested by to two administrators with nursing backgrounds: Joy Avery and Donna Pritchard from CipherHealth.

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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. I’m having the time of my life running this small company. What are the benefits and challenges for hospitals in getting discharged patients placed and coordinating their care afterward?

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The following is a guest article by John D’Amore, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health. Almost every article on the 10 years since the passage of the HITECH Act mentions the over $35 billion spent to incentivize the implementation of electronic health records. Most go on to conclude either “We failed!”

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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. Whether it’s clients or clearing houses, the EMR technology and the workflows that are available there. Good timing.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 14, 2014

As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat Salber of Health Innovation Media.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Of course, that's been the case every year over the past decade since the first meaningful use checks were mailed out, kickstarting the digital healthcare age as we know it. 2019: Year in Review It's been an eventful year for health IT. ONC, CMS leaders tell Senate HELP Committee time is of the essence. " News.

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