KevinMD

OCTOBER 19, 2019

As an early adopter of EHR since 2003 and a self-avowed "techie," I can vouch for the fact that many of the government initiatives in HIT, like "meaningful use," […]. A featured article titled "Death by A Thousand Clicks" addressed some of the serious problems and challenges we still face in the "digitization" of health care.

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Morning eHealth

MAY 30, 2018

athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush admits to assault of ex-wife — Puerto Rico’s hurricane death toll larger than originally tallied

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Morning eHealth

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Soon-Shiong will be new LA Times owner — FDA gets comments on clinical decision support

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 8, 2018

A disclosure buried in Community Health Systems' latest financial filing says the company has received a civil investigative demand "relating to the Company’s adoption of electronic health records technology and the meaningful use program.”

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 6, 2018

The agency also plans to overhaul the Meaningful Use program to place more emphasis on interoperability. Seema Verma announced two new initiatives from CMS aimed at giving patients access to their health data by opening up claims data to app developers.

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 2, 2019

Due in large part to the HITECH Act and the meaningful use incentive program, electronic medical record (EMR) initiatives have dominated the IT efforts of healthcare providers for the better part of the past decade. This article is copyrighted strictly for Electronic Health Reporter. Illegal copying is prohibited.

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 6, 2019

Coffey Health System will repay $250,000 of the $2.2 million it received in incentive payments as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice over alleged False Claims Act violations.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2021

Meaningful Use We hope you'll share whether you agree or disagree with our thoughts in the comments. Here's a look at the various items we discuss in this episode: * Remote Patient Monitoring. * Texting Patients. Info Blocking.

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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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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

What do you know about Stage 2 Meaningful Use around Transitions of Care?

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JUNE 10, 2019

The amount paid is a portion of the $2.2 million in federal incentives that Coffey Health System received in 2012 and 2013

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Morning eHealth

JUNE 30, 2015

SCOTUS hears health data sharing case.

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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. What made the difference? Ok, $36 billion in stimulus money helped. However, the key to change was healthcare organizations having a common goal.

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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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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 15, 2019

In a whistleblower lawsuit, two former senior IT executives at Community Health Systems allege the healthcare system submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in false claims to HHS to receive federal meaningful use incentive payments.

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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

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation. If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption.

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Health Populi

JUNE 4, 2019

The second chart illustrates that most providers offer a patient portal — that’s largely owing to the near-universal adoption of electronic health records and the Meaningful Use access point of a portal. A distant second digital tool for health consumer engagement is smartphone apps, available by one in three providers.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 1, 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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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

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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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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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 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

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 News - Telehealth

JULY 23, 2020

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.

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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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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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Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. McCleese also talks about St.

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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. There’s no value in it for them.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

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

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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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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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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