Author: trident50
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Massachusetts House Advocates to Scale Back on EHR Requirements
The Massachusetts House has passed legislation modifying existing state requirements that physicians demonstrate proficiency in electronic health records (EHRs) at the level of meaningful use as a condition of licensure. The Massachusetts House has passed legislation modifying existing state requirements that physicians demonstrate proficiency in electronic health records (EHRs) at the level of meaningful use…
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Lack of Rec Support Cause of Meaningful Use Stage 2 Slowdown?
By now, I imagine that most of you have read about the meaningful use stage 2 delay and EHR certification flexibility. The details and interpretation are still going on, but it’s a big change to the current meaningful use program. Although, the biggest question I hear asked is if the change leaves enough time for…
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Practice Fusion Launches Nation’s Largest Real-Time Healthcare Database
Practice Fusion has launched Insight, the nation’s largest real-time healthcare database. Physicians, researchers and analysts can use Insight to access unique analysis sourced from a de-identified subset of more than 81 million patient records. Insight users can explore health and pharmaceutical market trends, including diagnoses across patient populations, all in real-time. Pretty useful stuff. Insight,…
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Industry Stakeholders Applaud Proposed Meaningful Use Flexibility
Industry stakeholders are pleased with the government’s proposed rule that would ease reporting requirements for meaningful use, saying it offers the flexibility providers and hospitals need to stay in the program. Industry stakeholders are pleased with the government’s proposed rule that would ease reporting requirements for meaningful use, saying it offers the flexibility providers and…
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Hospital CIOs: Proposed Meaningful Use rule a ‘shallow victory’
Many hospital CIOs on FierceHealthIT‘s Editorial Advisory Board expressed disappointment with Tuesday’s proposed rule by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services allowing providers to use the 2011 edition of certification criteria for Stage 1 or Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use incentive program in 2014, calling it confusing and saying it comes too late.…
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Hospitals to provide ‘navigators’ to assist state surveyors
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has put hospitals and critical access hospitals on notice that they may need to provide an electronic health record “navigator” to a state surveyor in order to comply with state survey requirements. read more …read more
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CMS rule to help providers make use of Certified EHR Technology
Yesterday, HHS published a new proposed rule that would provide eligible professionals, eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals more flexibility in how they use certified electronic health record technology (CEHRT) to meet meaningful use. The proposed rule, from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…
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E-prescribing continues to grow
More than 1 billion prescriptions were routed electronically in 2013, up from 788 million the previous year, according to Surescripts’ annual National Progress Report and Safe-Rx Rankings, published this week. read more …read more
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Games, simulations boost clinical results
Medical education and patient outcomes both were shown to improve after doctors participated in an online game, according to new research out of Boston. read more …read more
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Indiana Gov. Pence unveils his Medicaid expansion alternative
In a speech to the American Enterprise Institute, the governor outlined a plan that he says will expand health coverage for low-income state residents while also giving people more control over their health care choices. …read more