Category: EHR

The Story of My Leukemia Dear Friends and Readers, I can’t begin to tell you how happy I am to resume writing about EHR user interface design and to share my ideas with the HIStalk community. I am grateful for this opportunity. By all odds, in the long view of human history, I should not…

0 On May 29 the EHR-2020 Task Force of the American Medical Informatics Association issued a report with recommendations on the status and future directions of EHRs. Thomas Payne, M.D., medical director of IT services at University of Washington Medicine and chair of the task force, called me from AMIA’s iHealth 2015 Clinical Informatics Conference…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services must “refrain” from finalizing Meaningful Use Stage 3 until testing and refinement of standards can be conducted, the American Hospital Association writes in comments to HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/aha-hhs-refrain-finalizing-mu-stage-3/2015-05-29?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

Top News Patient advocate Susannah Fox (Pew Research Center) is named CTO of HHS. She replaces Bryan Sivak, who stepped down last month. Reader Comments From Publius: “Re: DoD EHR bid. Consulting firms are already contacting Epic consultants in regards to the IBM/Epic DHMSM bid. The communication is that the decision is anticipated to be…

By John Halamka Every technology has an adoption journey. The classic Gartner hype curve travels from a Technology Trigger to the Peak of Inflated Expectations followed by the Trough of Disillusionment. It often takes years before organizations reach the Slope of Enlightenment and finally achieve a Plateau of Productivity. Have you noticed that Congress and…

Minnesota is softening its stance on electronic health record adoption a bit, exempting solo practitioners and cash-only doctors from its law requiring all providers to adopt interoperable EHRs. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/minnesota-exempts-some-docs-ehr-mandate/2015-05-26?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

EHRA Recommends Changes To ONC’s Standards Advisory Proposal The HIMSS EHR Association responds to ONC’s Standards Advisory Proposal, citing concerns that the newly established standards, and their intended uses, could be unintentionally misinterpreted without explicit clarifications. America’s Health Rankings Senior Report The United Health Foundation publishes a report on senior’s health, finding that preventable hospitalizations…

Amazing Charts just announced a new EHR partner program. This isn’t something that’s particularly new for EHR vendors. They all have lots of partners. Some have formalized them into a program like athenahealth has done with their More Disruption Please (MDP) program. Others are much more quiet about the partners they work with and how…

I just saw that the 21st Century Cures legislation passed the house committee process. Word on the street is that Congress probably won’t take this up even if the house passes it this summer. The legislation looks pretty interesting for those of us in healthcare IT. Blair Childs, Premier’s senior vice president of public affairs,…

The Chicago-based electronic health records (EHR) vendor, Allscripts is laying off 250 employees, or 3.5 percent of its workforce. The Chicago-based electronic health records (EHR) vendor, Allscripts is laying off 250 employees, or 3.5 percent of its workforce. The company confirmed the layoffs in an email to Healthcare Informatics. Allscripts spokesperson Concetta DiFranco said, “As…