Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2022

During the event, Aaron Miri, SVP & Chief Digital and Information Officer at Baptist Health, said something quite powerful “It’s hard to argue with hard ROI and that’s what we got with LeanTaaS. I was recently able to attend a press briefing with LeanTaaS and a couple CIO and Chief Transformation officers.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back. Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 7, 2022

For all its good and ill, meaningful use drove action and adoption of EHR in healthcare. Once health IT professionals are focused on something, it is amazing to see the results they […]. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped.

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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

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 News - Telehealth

JULY 21, 2021

After more than 15 years of creating and pushing health IT innovations forward in the state, the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative has completed its final dissolution. Before dissolving , MAeHC had assigned its contract with the New England Healthcare Exchange Network to the Massachusetts Health Data Consortium. ON THE RECORD.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Many of our concerns center on the proposed implementation timeframes associated with various concepts included in HTI-1, as well as ONC’s failure to sufficiently consider the burden compliance will place on provider organizations and health IT developers. This puts EHR vendors in the middle of data aggregation from multiple sources.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

While virtual care doesn’t have quite the same funding that EMR had with meaningful use, there are a lot of similarities to where we’re at today with virtual care as compared to where we were with EMR back when the government poured down $36 billion of stimulus money on EMR. Thanks to COVID and new […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2022

That feels like something we talked about a decade ago when meaningful use was hot and now we’re ready to move on. That feels like something we talked about a decade ago when meaningful use was hot and now we’re ready to move on. Many people are tired of hearing about EMR and EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 11, 2023

There were a number of Health IT companies that came by at #ViVE2023 to share their latest product developments and company news. Here is what CPSI , Linus Health , Imprivata , Mediktor , and Fortified Health Security had to say. Be sure to check out all of our coverage of the ViVE conference.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2019

We also saw the rise of patient portals, a movement towards value-based care, the implementation of a new billing code system and an explosion of health data. Over the past decade we have moved from a world where more than half of healthcare processes were paper-based to one that is mostly electronic. It’s hard to […].

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

As part of its National Health IT Week program, HIMSS presented a webinar this week exploring the advent of what it calls the "Smart Communities-Cities Movement." Leave it to a place like Portland, Oregon, to already be modeling what these new ecosystems can look like.

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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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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. So many of the patients who would use this technology are younger and they’re not chronic patients. Chapter 2. * IT as consultants, not owners.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

Want to improve health care in rural communities? Be a part of the Rural Health IT Workforce Program. Apply at Grants.gov by April 15.

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 24, 2013

This year’s latest offerings will be infused throughout the education sessions, exhibit hall programming and live-streaming sessions to provide attendees with the latest health IT content and enhanced networking opportunities. “We

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Healthcare IT Today

APRIL 27, 2024

Read more… CIO Podcast : Health IT Project Management. AI-powered avatars and voice agents are increasing access to mental health assessments without substantially increasing personnel costs, according to Raj Tumuluri at Openstream.ai. Read more… Exchanging, Managing, and Meaningfully Using Health Data in 2024.

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Medicine and Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

The 2013 iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City will bring together over 250 C-level, physician, practice management and IT decision-makers from North America’s leading provider organizations and physician practices. iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City, NY Sept 17-18, 2013 Learn more here: [link].

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

As someone who has covered the health IT industry for 17 years, I’m always fascinated when I see something really grab the attention of the health IT community. It’s pretty profound that he used the word highway. Maybe we should call it meaningful data sharing? (Is

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Medicine and Technology

AUGUST 13, 2013

Register for the 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit : Accelerating the Blue Button Movement The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) invites you to join us in Washington D.C. The 2013 Consumer Health IT Summit will bring together Federal leaders including: Todd Park, U.S.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 2, 2022

Looking back to 2010, the health IT initiatives of that time consisted of getting up-to-speed as quickly as possible about Meaningful Use and helping to move health systems and clinical practices away from paper and analog processes to electronic and Internet-enabled technologies.

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Healthcare IT Today

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Effective Health Information Exchange (HIE) requires a secure and reliable Health Information Service Provider (HISP) infrastructure to provide HIPAA-compliant delivery of healthcare information.

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Mobile Health Matters

APRIL 26, 2018

The launch of Meaningful Use under the Affordable Care Act drove the electronic medical record (EMR) “Gold Rush,” the mass implementation of EMRs in a shift away from paper charts. The Aftermath of the EMR Gold Rush.

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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). In the past, OntarioMD has been responsible for Certifying EMRs.

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me highlight a few key points and reflections I jotted down as I sat through several presentations about Meaningful Use (MU) and the future of clinical informatics: Health IT is about improving clinical workflow efficiency and patient care. Or, are we putting too much emphasis on achieving Meaningful Use?

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Health System CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

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. Urban Health Initiative. * Chapter 2. * “Significant capital investments” in analytics. Updated IS strategic plan.

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Healthcare IT Today

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In the world of health IT and healthcare policy, this is the day we love to share our love (and some disdain) for healthcare in what we call #HealthPolicyValentines. Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you! May your lives be filled with love this day.

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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

It’s there to protect us from evildoers. Before Health IT Certification. After Health IT Certification. The argument is that ONC has no place creating certification criteria for capabilities that aren’t part of “meaningful use.” After The Jungle was published. You made a mistake.

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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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Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 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. What good is a walk test if a patient is disabled and unable to walk? What good is progression free survival when a patient just wants a day without pain?

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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. 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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

Bill Charnetski, EVP, Health System Solutions & Government Affairs at PointClickCare Traditionally, long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) facilities have not benefited from the same health IT investments or funding as other care sectors. Since the U.S.

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