Whether it’s a game or in life, we all try to get to the next level. Getting to the next level is the ultimate goal. But how we get there is a forgotten step – and the most important of all. Recently, while working on a project, I came across this beautiful picture of a lobby. As you c...
Read More →More than a third of healthcare providers plan to participate in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ ACO Shared Savings Program, according to a recent KLAS survey of 197 providers. This despite their concerns that the advanced technology needed threatens to take money and IT sk...
Read More →Healthcare organizations are immersed in implementing IT systems to meet requirements under provisions of the HITECH Act. However, one thing they may not be anticipating is the surge in the number of healthcare information technology jobs they will need to fill once these systems are in place. I...
Read More →If you’ve heard that healthcare IT is the most promising area of job growth in information technology, there’s a reason. In recent years, the job growth spotlight has often been targeted at healthcare job growth generally and healthcare IT job sector growth specifically. In fact, a ...
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There are several definitions of electronic health records, but no matter how EHRs are defined, they are only the beginning of a bigger plan of healthcare, said Adam Greene, JD, partner at Davis Wright Tremaine. Mr. Greene spoke at AHIMA’s 2011 Legal EHR Summit in Chicago on Aug. 15, emphasiz...
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Meaningful Use Stage 1 The government has paid $400 million in meaningful use incentives to physicians and hospitals so far, a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services official told the Health IT Policy Committee Aug. 3. To date, about 77,000 providers have registered for the program aimed at prom...
Read More →Last week I came across this article entitled Top 10 EMR Installation Mistakes by Pete Rivera of Healthcare Informatics. Overall, this was a great list, but I was particularly struck by the second item listed in this top 10: We deal with this topic a lot in our practice. Many healthcare organi...
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Hospitals and health systems are scrambling to become meaningful users of certified electronic health record technology within their own entities, but what’s the next step to share health information after that step? The answer for many organizations will be health information exchanges. HIEs...
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The federal incentive program for Meaningful Use of electronic health records seems to be having its desired early effect by spurring healthcare organizations to adopt more than just basic EHRs, according to a new study. And many hospitals are making plans to spend more on other forms of IT in the ...
Read More →As hospitals and physician practices continue to progress to electronic health record systems, challenges have been created by the sheer volume and quality of raw data that goes into EHRs. Advanced software and interoperability are helping to balance different aspects of electronic data, such as...
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Rather than study electronic health record (EHR) usability in the abstract, “a few high-value use cases, particularly those that have patient safety implications,” should be examined, according to recommendations developed by the Health IT Policy Committee’s adoption and certifica...
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A federal advisory committee work group recommends giving some health-care providers more time to meet the second level of “meaningful use” requirements for their electronic health records, Modern Healthcare.com reports today. The recommendation is contained in a draft letter from the m...
Read More →The aim of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act was simple: Make it so that any patient can walk into any emergency room in the United States and have their entire medical history summoned instantly, via computer. Not only could doctors save lives by getting quic...
Read More →The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) is expanding its “add-on” testing of ambulatory electronic health records to three additional specialties. CCHIT, one of six federally sanctioned EHR testing and certification bodies, on Tuesday published its certific...
Read More →Quest Diagnostics® (NYSE: DGX) announced that Care360 user Paulo Andre, M.D., a neurologist in Framingham, MA, was the first Care360 EHR customer to successfully complete the attestation process for demonstrating Meaningful Use of an electronic health record with an ONC-ATCB certified complete EHR...
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