Category: Analytics

On Tuesday, May 20, the Health IT Policy Committee is holding the first of two listening sessions featuring testimony from physician practice and hospital IT leaders about their Stage 2 meaningful use concerns. In their written testimony, the health IT leaders highlighted the challenges around transitions of care and the patient engagement. On Tuesday, May…

The use of electronic health records (EHRs) has significantly increased at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) over the past five years, according to new research from The Commonwealth Fund. The use of electronic health records (EHRs) has significantly increased at federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) over the past five years, according to new research from…

The Medfusion, Allscripts relationship has taken a turn for the worse, with the Cary, N.C.-based provider of patient portal technologies suing the Chicago-based provider of electronic health record (EHR) systems. The Medfusion, Allscripts relationship has taken a turn for the worse, with the Cary, N.C.-based provider of patient portal technologies suing the Chicago-based provider of…

Community health centers have adopted health IT at rates higher than office-based physicians, including large practices and large integrated healthcare systems, according to a survey by the Commonwealth Fund. read more …read more    

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed a rule this week that would align the reporting of clinical quality measures (CQMs) for eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program with timelines in the Hospital IQR Program. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has proposed…

As health information technology matures and becomes an integral part of all healthcare, more and more people will be needed who understand the field and can apply it to medicine. In an article published online this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, two physicians–Don Detmer of the University of Virginia and Edward…

The Health IT Policy Committee’s (HITPC) Meaningful Use Workgroup is looking to learn about your meaningful use experiences. We are hosting two virtual listening sessions – on May 20, 2014 and May 27, 2014 – where we want to hear about your successes and challenges to achieving meaningful use to inform our recommendations for Stage…

The Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) has been asked by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) to explore the health information technology (health IT) needs of the long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) and behavioral health (BH) settings. In most cases, providers in these settings are not eligible to receive…

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has been approved by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) for a second three-year term as the ONC-Approved Accreditor (ONC-AA) for the ONC Health Information Technology Certification Program. The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has been approved by the Office of the National Coordinator…

Simply building an enterprise data warehouse for a healthcare organization won’t make it successful–and making it an IT project is a mistake, writes Yiscah Bracha, assistant vice president of quality improvement healthcare analytics at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. read more …read more