Category: EHR

House and Senate negotiators appear to be making progress towards stiffer regulations over the type of drugs that caused last year’s outbreak. In other Capitol Hill news, the GOP pushes to repeal a tax on medical devices, and rural health care providers ask for more time to meet electronic health record deadlines. Source: Lawmakers weigh…

It’s fair to surmise that thanks in large part to alert fatigue, many providers are rolling their collective eyes at the notion of current clinical decision support systems. However, the words of a prominent CDS advocate should get people thinking differently about an area that seems to face various misconceptions. Full disclosure: I am not…

San Francisco-based free electronic medical record (EMR) provider, Practice Fusion received $70 million in Series D financing, the company announced this week, bringing its total capital raised to $134 million. The San Francisco-based free electronic medical record (EMR) provider, Practice Fusion received $70 million in Series D financing, the company announced this week, bringing its…

Again and again, I find myself expounding upon the need to differentiate between the “letter of the law” and the “spirit of the law” of Meaningful Use Stage 2. I believe whole-heartedly in the transformative power of health IT, and support the future vision of the Meaningful Use objectives of patient empowerment and nationwide standards…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has provided another glimpse into what may be required in Stage 3 of Meaningful Use, issuing a solicitation for a contractor to make recommendations regarding which behavioral and social data should be added to the program. read more From: http://www.fierceemr.com/story/meaningful-use-stage-3-may-require-social-behavioral-data-capture/2013-09-25?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss

Small physician practices are leaving their vendors at an unprecedented rate as electronic medical record (EMR) software systems have failed to meet rising expectations, according to a new report from Orem, Utah-based research company, KLAS research. Small physician practices are leaving their vendors at an unprecedented rate as electronic medical record (EMR) software systems have…

Seventeen Republican senators have joined the chorus of stakeholders urging the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services to delay Stage 2 of the Meaningful Use Incentive Program. read more Source: GOP senators call for delay of Meaningful Use Stage 2

The year 2014 brings about many changes to even Stage 1 of the Meaningful Use program, according to a recent blog post by Steven Posnack, director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s federal policy division. read more Source: ONC clarifies Meaningful Use changes to come in 2014

I write a lot about how electronic health records have the potential to improve research, catch diagnostic errors and boost care. Much of this is the macro picture of EHRs and health IT as it… read more Source: EHR question has evolved from ‘if’ to ‘how’

In a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, several ranking Republican Senators called for a one-year extension for healthcare providers to complete the second stage of the Electronic Health Records (EHR) incentive program, much to the delight of at least one industry association. In a letter to Department of…