Society for Participatory Medicine

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Having sat in on some industry meetings between clinical research organizations and study sponsors, I am excited at the patient stakeholder group having equal representation and influence with the operationalization of drug development. What good is a walk test if a patient is disabled and unable to walk?

BioTech 112

BioTech Drug Development Meaningful Use Pharmaceuticals 112

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

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JUNE 25, 2018

argonaut) -- meeting the Meaningful Use "API" requirement. Would it be reasonable to expect that the Meaningful Use "Download" (from View/Download/Transfer) capability would be offered in FHIR format? If a healthcare provider offers a FHIR API (e.g. Proposed quick-and-dirty solution?

FHIR 55

FHIR Meaningful Use 55

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

Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Because providers can become accustomed to the workarounds required when using separate systems across their locations, they are often reluctant to replace them. However, they’ve inadvertently made systems that function but have not created systems to meet their organization’s needs.

EHR 122

EHR Interoperability Meaningful Use Patient Experience 122

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.

EHR 75

EHR Meaningful Use Public Health Health IT 75

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

Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

In the comments that we will submit to ONC on HTI-1, we’ll also be encouraging ONC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to work more closely together to address the misalignments that frequently occur between when ONC tells software developers to deploy new certified versions and when CMS requires providers to be using them.

Health IT 97

Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 97

eHealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There were several other chapter meetings, chapter leader institute, meaningful use meeting and the Nursing Informatics Institute, all well delivered HIMSS events. In June, I had the opportunity to speak at the Northern Ohio HIMSS conference on the Value of Patient Engagement.

mHealth 48

mHealth Meaningful Use Patient Experience Nursing 48

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

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. The Meaningful Use program remains unchanged for hospitals.

Meaningful Use 28

Meaningful Use Medicare Health Information Health IT 28

Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Having spent over a decade reinventing the EHR to meet the needs of underserved healthcare providers at my company Azalea Health , I believe the answer is yes. In the psychiatric hospital setting, there is no regulatory requirement currently around meaningful use that is driving technology adoption.

EHR 98

EHR Meaningful Use Digital Health Leadership 98

Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo meets and greets – briefly – while Tavenner keeps her distance at HIMSS (March 3). HIMSS crowd skeptical of promise for flexibility on MU2 hardship requests (Feb.

Meaningful Use 28

Meaningful Use HIE Interoperability EHR 28

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

CMS has worked with partners and representatives from industry to identify and finalize a set of unified quality measures which meet the requirements of multiple programs, such as the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Physician Value-Based Modifier, in addition to meeting EHR Incentive Programs requirements.

eHealth 32

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

TheraNest

AUGUST 4, 2019

As of 2015, certain mental health practices (mostly psychiatrists’ offices) had to begin meaningfully using EHR to be eligible for incentive payments. This means you can streamline your whole office using TheraNest because all your employees will have access to the software without increasing your overhead!

Mental health 61

Mental health EHR Private practice Meaningful Use 61

Chilmark Research

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Taking a pulse of the folks we met with here, virtually everyone is looking beyond Meaningful Use for future product development. We held meetings with a number of them, and when asked about their primary buyer within an HCO, more than one said they’re seeing a shift towards joint-decisionmaking by the CFO, CIO, and other leadership.

EHR 60

EHR Meaningful Use Leadership Nursing 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

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

Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. While companies like Microsoft launched PHR platforms such as HealthVault a number of years ago, most of these PHRs were not linked to EHRs.

FHIR 32

FHIR Interoperability Meaningful Use EHR 32

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

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have influenced USA regulations such as HIPAA, and Meaningful Use; as well as regional regulations globally. It appears I am going to miss the September HL7 meeting in Baltimore. I was a member of the HIT Standards - Privacy and Security workgroup, Direct, HITSP, and CCHIT before that.

Interoperability 40

Interoperability FHIR HIE eHealth 40

care innovations

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

In a military offensive, you are thinking through the subsequent actions and what strategies and tactics you will use to meet those episodic events. Quite a bit of this is inspired by ONC’s Meaningful Use, telehealth reimbursement models, and new CMS programs mandating effective change.

Meaningful Use 56

Meaningful Use EMR Interoperability Telemedicine 56

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

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2016

If as a Secure Node, I want to only allow certificates know to me and reject the rest, is that counted as not meeting IHE spec? Testing ATNA Secure Communications Direct addresses- Trusted vs Trustable Identity - - Proofing Securing RESTful services IHE Encryption choices Healthcare use of X.509

Meaningful Use 40

Meaningful Use 40

Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

There is no one-size fits all approach to patient engagement, which is the ultimate shortcoming of the portal approach espoused by the Meaningful Use program. One promising trend is that more of these new “startups” seem to be run by seasoned veterans, doctors, and technologists than in previous years.

HIE 60

HIE EHR Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

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. Such conversations were not uncommon – it is valuable for ONC leaders to meet with the companies we regulated.

Pharmaceuticals 40

Pharmaceuticals EHR Life Science Pain management 40

Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 30, 2024

By leveraging TEFCA’s standards and focus on clinical health information, other state policies and frameworks, such as California’s Data Exchange Framework, can build upon secure and confident data sharing among providers and entities to meet local priorities.

Interoperability 73

Interoperability eHealth FHIR EHR 73

CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

Over the next several months, the Office of E-Health Standards and Services will take an active role in engaging physicians, provider associations, payors, and technology developers to identify ways to meet the challenges they face. This is only the first of many steps we plan to take to help providers.

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.” Helping the provider or health system organize and make the best use of its data 3.

EHR 40

EHR Meaningful Use Digital Health Leadership 40

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. 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. See my note about layered NPPs, above.

HIPAA 60

HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

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. You take a look on the tablet at their quality scores and decide which three to visit because they meet the criteria. I’m having the time of my life running this small company.

Nursing 48

Nursing Meaningful Use EMR Primary Care 48

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.

FHIR 40

FHIR EHR Meaningful Use 40