Category: Analytics

CMS has granted a reprieve to providers unable to attest to Meaningful Use for fiscal year 2013 because of technical problems with the attestation website. The original deadline for attesting was Feb. 28, 2014, but CMS announced last week that eligible professionals now have until March 31. CMS Extends Attestation Period for 2013 Reporting Year;…

A former hospital CFO for Tariq Mahmood’s, M.D. now collapsed hospital chain, including Shelby Regional Medical Center (Center, Texas), is being charged with healthcare fraud for lying about use of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology to receive incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). A former hospital CFO for Tariq…

Thanks to the HIPAA Privacy Rule patients have the right to be informed of their rights with respect to their protected health information as well as how their health care providers and health plans may use and disclose such information. Health plans and health care providers are required to develop and distribute a written notice…

Applied informatics aims to take data being collected in electronic systems and bring it into the day-to-day work of healthcare professionals to improve care and reduce costs, according to an article… read more …read more    

The proposed law would create a “Merit-Based Incentive Payment System” (MIPS) that would consolidate three existing incentive programs, continuing the focus on quality, resource use, and meaningful electronic health record (EHR) use with which professionals are familiar but in a cohesive program that avoids redundancies. As has been widely reported in the healthcare press, on…

Data analytics tools are enabling hospitals nationwide to cut costs by pinpointing which patients are utilizing the most resources. read more …read more    

Texas Children’s Hospital has transformed its quality improvement efforts through data warehousing and analytics, according to a case study from the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. read more …read more    

Just over two weeks after she officially began her duties as the new National Coordinator for Health IT, Karen DeSalvo, M.D. sat down for a phone interview with HCI Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland, to discuss the meaningful use process—and much, much more. On January 13, Karen DeSalvo, M.D., formerly City of New Orleans Health Commissioner and…

The work plan calls for the HIT Policy Committee to approve Stage 3 recommendations in March, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking from CMS in the fall, and a final rule in the first half of 2015, to become effective in 2017. At the Feb. 4 meeting of the federal advisory Health IT Policy Committee, co-chair…

The Health IT Policy Committee’s Privacy and Security Tiger Team is considering potential privacy and security policy issues that could arise when a family member, friend or legal designee is given access to patient information through the Certified EHR Technology “view/download/transmit” (V/D/T) capabilities. Ideally, we want your comments in time to inform our discussions during…