Category: EHR

FDA grant to determine drug safety through EHRs The FDA is offering a grant worth up to $1 million to fund research focused on mining EHRs for data that will support post-market drug safety assessments. Comparative Effectiveness of Childhood Obesity Interventions in Pediatric Primary Care A study published in JAMA Pediatrics finds that the use…

At the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s annual conference in Chicago last week, Cathy Borst, vice president and CIO at Chicago-based National Surgical Healthcare, and consultant Patty Guinn of Atlanta-based Cornerstone Advisors, outlined best practices for surviving an audit request. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/6-steps-surviving-meaningful-use-audit-request/2015-04-22?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss       

As I fly home from HIMSS15 (literally), I’ve been thinking how to summarize my annual visit to the mecca of healthcare IT conferences we know as HIMSS. I’ve seen a bunch of numbers around attendance and exhibitors and I believe they’re somewhere around 43,000 attendees and 1300 exhibitors. It definitely felt that massive. The interest…

The last keynote at HIMSS is always inspiring for me. They’ve almost always ended up being one of the more prominent memories for me from HIMSS. This year was no different. I really need to chew on a bunch of what was said still, but Jeremy Gutsche was throwing out nuggets of wisdom throughout his…

From Canuck: “Re: British Columbia EMR. Big implementation gone sour with a reported $125 million spent so far with nothing to show. This story barely touches upon the issues encountered thus far, issues we’ve all seen in other similar projects.” British Columbia parts ways with IBM two years into a 10-year, $700 million project that…

Today’s been a long day packed with meetings at HIMSS 2015. I need to reach out to HIMSS to get the final numbers, but word is that there are over 40,000 people at the show. In the hallways, the exhibit hall and the taxi lines it definitely seems to be the case. I’m not sure…

Top News HHS proposes to shorten the Meaningful Use attestation period to 90 days for 2015 in an announcement released, as always, late on a Friday (they also seem to like to put out big news right before the HIMSS conference). It also proposes removing requirements that are duplicative or no longer needed. Interestingly, HHS…

An HIT Moment with … is a quick interview with someone we find interesting. Eyal Ephrat, MD is founder and CEO of MedCPU of New York, NY. What are the shortcomings of clinical decision-support modules of EHRs? Decision support technology was designed with the best intentions, but accuracy remains a huge problem. Prompting the clinical…

If you read this and any of the other Healthcare Scene blogs or follow us on social media, you know that #HIMSSSanity is upon us. Yes, it’s the Thursday before the big HIMSS Annual conference in Chicago. I’ve often described my visits to the HIMSS annual conference like a kid in a candy store. As…

Electronic lab reporting has jumped as a result of the Meaningful Use program and is having an impact on public health practice, according to the latest progress report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. read more …read more Source:: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/electronic-lab-reporting-public-health-agencies-surges/2015-04-08?utm_medium=rss&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss