Tag: Standards
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An Overview of Meaningful Use Stage 2 and the Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rules
After months of speculation, the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and the Standards and Certification Criteria have been released. On Friday, August 24…
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Hospital officials react to pulled certification of EHR products
Hospital officials were divided in their reactions to news late Thursday that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT had revoked the certification of two electronic health record systems for failure to meet the standards of the Meaningful Use incentive program. read more
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Washington Debrief: Sebelius Responds to GOP Senators on HITECH Criticism
Six Senators sent letters to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and health IT stakeholders questioning the effectiveness of HITECH implementation. In response to the report, Secretary Sebelius said, “We haven’t gotten to implementation of Stage 2 yet,” Sebelius said in a recent Senate Finance Committee budget hearing. “You might be reading the final chapter before we…
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Telemedicine Coverage Dropped for Medicare Beneficiaries in 36 States and Territories
According to a press release from the American Telemedicine Association (ATA), Medicare beneficiaries in 97 counties, across 36 states and territories, will lose telemedicine benefits because of the updated federal delineations of Standards Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs). The SMSAs are federal urban/rural categorizations which, the ATA says, revokes the option for Medicare recipients to receive…
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The March HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The March HIT Standards Committee focused on streamlining test scripts for certification, an overview of FDA Universal Device Identifier rule making, clinical summary formats for Long Term Care, and the latest updates from ONC.
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Building the Future through CMS eHealth
By Robert Tagalicod, Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services Transforming Health Care What is the most important electronic initiative in health care today? Is it the switch to ICD-10 that will enable us to capture information more accurately? The widespread adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs) to provide an infrastructure for electronic…
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The February HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The February HIT Standards Committee focused on the Committee workplan for 2013.
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Testimony to the HIT Policy Committee
Today I testify to the HIT Policy Committee and review the HIT Standards Committee responses to the HIT Policy Committee Request for Comment .