Category: EHR

Electronic health records benefits may be clear for providers – cutting redundancy of tests, coordinating care during discharges, etc. — but these benefits also will ultimately accrue to patients in the form of better health. In July, I participated in the Tenth Annual Healthcare Unbound Conference. I was delighted to be invited to speak on…

I speak at many of conferences and webinars each year and I have been hearing that attendees and audiences are starting to get tired of hearing about big data, Meaningful Use, and ‘disruption in healthcare’ topics without more actionable advice. Many entrepreneurs and speakers at the events are still focusing on why technology and IT…

Parents using an integrated PHR were more likely to take their young children to all recommended well-child visits, according to a Kaiser Permanente study reported in iHealthBeat. More than 4.3 million members are registered to use Kaiser’s PHR, My Health Manager, on kp.org. During the first half of this year, patients have viewed 17.5 million…

Even though the majority of hospitals have made progress toward implementation of electronic health records (EHRs), about one-quarter of them have failed to make any progress, according to a report from HIMSS Analytics, a division of the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Even though the majority of hospitals have made progress toward implementation…

The debate and drama over meaningful use won’t end any time soon, even after Farzad Mostashari’s bold declaration that a timeline alteration to Stage 2 isn’t likely to come. While those in favor of changing the program will push ahead, recent data falls on the side of those in favor of keeping it intact. Last…

Meaningful Use, information exchange, patient data matching and electronic quality measurements are among the areas of focus in 2014 for the public policy arm of The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives. read more Source: CHIME’s 2014 public policy efforts: Meaningful Use, HIE, patient data matching on docket

What happens when a provider attests that it has meaningfully used its electronic health record, receives its incentive payment, and later discovers on its own that the attestation was faulty? read more Source: Meaningful Use attesters: Beware the False Claims Act

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and the Texas Health Services Authority (THSA) have announced a partnership to develop a state accreditation program for public and private health information exchange (HIE) organizations operating in Texas. The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and the…

The following is a guest blog post by Laura Speek, learning and development specialist at The Breakaway Group, a Xerox company. Check out all of the blog posts in the Breakaway Thinking series. Healthcare organizations of nearly every variety are heavily involved in analyzing a smorgasbord of choices in electronic health record (EHR) technology. While…

While one intention of electronic health record implementation is to improve provider workflow, that was hardly the case for pair of southern California hospitals. read more Source: Provider workflow suffers after poor EHR implementation process