Category: EHR

Twelve CHIME CIO members traveled to Washington last week to set objectives for future CHIME public policy efforts and to meet with Senate staff to talk about Meaningful Use timing. Over the course of a two-day retreat, CHIME Public Policy determined key areas of focus and is working on an action plan for the next…

Today’s EHR and HIT News includes customer acquisition updates from Merge Healthcare. There is also news of a partnership between Healthcare Synergy and Great Lakes Health Information Exchange, representing the first partnership of a home health EMR vendor with the Michigan based health information exchange. Charleston Radiologists Selects Merge Radiology and Honeycomb™ Solutions Merge Healthcare…

The CDC estimates that approximately 250,000 bloodstream infections are caused by poor management of intravenous catheters, resulting in about 60,000 deaths per year. But a good vascular access monitoring program integrated with a hospital’s electronic health record system can reduce that number–and reduce patient length of stay, according to Reginald Coopwood, M.D., president and CEO…

Sixty-eight percent of eligible hospitals have purchased software from a vendor that has been certified to meet the criteria for Stage 2 of meaningful use, according to a recent report from HIMSS Analytics, the analytics arm of the Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS). Sixty-eight percent of eligible hospitals have purchased software from…

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has released a new white paper providing an in-depth analysis of the first attesters in the Meaningful Use Incentive Program. read more Source: CMS: Significant variation in first MU attesters

As we move towards interoperability, patient data is constantly changing hands, but proprietary EHR vendor codes inhibit the true exchange of patient information. Meaningful Use attempts to address this by forcing vendors to share data using common, standard terminologies (such as SNOMED-CT). However, the translation from the original data format into the standard terminology can…

According to data collected through June 2013 in the HIMSS Analytics® Database, approximately 68% of hospitals have purchased technology from a software vendor that has been certified to the 2014 Edition certification criteria. The report from HIMSS Analytics, Hospital Readiness to Meet Meaningful Use Stage 2, assesses the preparedness of eligible hospitals to meet the…

Today’s EHR and HIT News includes news from All Medical Solutions who will be making their AMS SPHER HIPAA Compliance Solution available to its members as well as partnership news between Hello Health and CollaborateMD. Amerinet Signs Agreement with All Medical Solutions for AMS SPHER HIPAA Compliance Solution All Medical Solutions (AMS), the Healthcare division…

The HIPAA Omnibus Rule compliance date is on Monday. Are you ready? I’m sure the answer for most organizations is NO! In fact, the real question that I hear most organizations asking is what they need to do to be compliant with the new HIPAA omnibus regulations. One of my more popular video interviews was…

This is one in a series of blog posts to coincide with National Health IT Week. To follow the conversation on Twitter, look for the #NHITweek hashtag. During one of my regular visits over the phone with Ed Gamache, CEO of Harbor Beach Community Hospital, in Harbor Beach, MI, I learned a bit about how…