Category: EHR

Next week, it’s going to be a little different around here. Next week, I’m going to be spending the week at Zions National Park as part of a family reunion. We did this a couple years back and unless things have changed, I’ll be stuck completely off the grid with no wifi or even cell…

GOP questions health software regulator’s authority Fred Upton (MI), Marsha Blackburn (TN), Joe Pitts (PA) and Greg Walden (OR) send a letter to Karen DeSalvo, MD, questioning the ONC’s authority to levy certification fees on EHR vendors, as its 2014 budgetary documents suggest it will. Grand Jury: Ventura County, Calif., Mishandled Electronic Health Records Transition…

The following is a great response on LinkedIn by Robert D. Coli, M.D. to my post about Lab Interfaces Being an EHR Standard. I’d love to hear your thoughts about what he says in the comments. There are now a total 880,000 professionally active U.S. physicians, working in 200,000 mostly small private practices (100K with…

The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s new security risk assessment tool to help providers conduct risk analyses of their electronic patient information has both benefits and shortfalls, according to attorney Richelle Beckman of Overland Park, Kansas-based Forbes Law Group. read more …read more    

Patient centered medical homes that use electronic health records improved the care of patients “significantly” over time compared to primary care physicians who used paper records or who used EHRs but weren’t affiliated with a medical home, according to a new study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. read more …read more    

The copy-and-paste and other functions in EHRs can make it easier to commit fraud when used inappropriately, but they’re not fraudulent by default, according to a viewpoint article in JAMA Internal Medicine. read more …read more    

I hope I’m not the only person who finds the results of the latest poll from Morning Consult disturbing. The poll, released this week, found that more than three-fourths of the American public expects hospitals to use electronic health records, but “only 53 percent” trust the safety of those records. Thirty-nine percent were “worried” about…

Like many others, some members of Congress want to know what’s next for ONC once federal Meaningful Use and HITECH Act funding dries up. read more …read more    

Amazing Charts has announced that Version 7.0 of their Amazing Charts product, has been certified as a 2014 Complete EHR by the Drummond Group’s EHR Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body program. Amazing Charts Version 7.0 is compliant in accordance with the applicable Eligible Provider certification criteria adopted by the Secretary of the…

The following is a guest blog post by Jamie Verkamp, Chief Speaking Officer at (e)Merge. Healthcare organizations often see attesting to the Measures included in Meaningful Use Stage 2 as a burdensome checklist which results in a massive resource drain in exchange for inadequate financial compensation. MU Stage 2 Measure 7 is one such oft-maligned…