Tag: ehr
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Eyes Wide Shut – Managing Multi-EMR Meaningful Use Stage 2 Is Hard
Most discussions on Meaningful Use (MU) seem to focus on a single healthcare provider organization (acute or ambulatory), with a single EMR, and a single Medical Record Number (MRN) pool generating unique patient identifiers. Even in that context, the complaints of the difficulties of successfully implementing the technology and obtaining the objectives are deafening. How…
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Accounting of disclosures rule must balance ‘wants’ and ‘needs’
It’s heartening that the ONC Health IT Policy Committee’s Tiger Team is reevaluating the controversial accounting of disclosures proposed rule, having held a virtual hearing Monday to look for “realistic” ways to provide patients with greater transparency about how their electronic health information is used and disclosed. read more Source: Accounting of disclosures rule must…
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Meaningful Use: Clinical Decision Support – enki EHR (NextServices)
Meaningful Use: Clinical Decision Support – This tutorial describes how you can easily satisfy the meaningful use criteria on Clinical Decision Support in en… Video Rating: 0 / 5
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Military Health System examines privacy, identity challenges
As the U.S. Department of Defense and Veterans Affairs work toward an effective electronic exchange of healthcare records, issues of patient privacy and identity management remain. read more From: http://www.fiercehealthit.com/story/military-health-system-examines-privacy-identity-challenges/2013-10-02?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss
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iOS & Mobile Technology in Healthcare, 1 of 3
CIOs cite the move toward BYOD and Apple’s branding as reasons that Good Technology’s iOS activations are doubling those of Android.
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How to Get Paid for Meaningful Use: 7 Tips from the EHR Trenches
No White Papers & Webinars Block ICD-10 Source: How to Get Paid for Meaningful Use: 7 Tips from the EHR Trenches
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Mobile Health Conversations — Mobile health devices going cellular or not?
Four out of ten Americans would pay for a remote monitoring device that would track their vital signs and send the data to their doctors, according to a rece… Video Rating: 0 / 5 UCSB computer engineering project for ECE 194BB/594BB (Mobile Embedded Devices). This medical device is interfacing with Google Android 2.1. Video Rating:…
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ONC: Looking for ‘realistic’ ways to account for disclosures
Health industry stakeholders have taken advantage of the opportunity to revisit the proposed accounting for disclosure rule and weighed in on how the rule should be structured. ONC’s Health IT Policy Committee Tiger Team held a virtual hearing Sept. 30 to gather information about the rule and explore “realistic ways to provide patients with greater…
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Why a Stage 2 Extension May Not Happen for a While
At the first ever Association of Medical Directors of Information Systems (AMDIS) Fall Symposium in Boston, industry luminary, John Glaser, Ph.D., the CEO of Health Services for Siemens Healthcare, shared some details on discussions involving the potential extension of the Stage 2 timeline for meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). At the first ever…
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Meaningful Use attestation audits: An all or nothing deal
Only a small percentage of providers attesting to Meaningful Use will be audited by the government, but the outcome could be harsh, since any single shortfall will be grounds for loss of the full incentive payment, according to attorney Brian Flood with Husch Blackwell in Austin, Texas, who spoke on a webinar conducted Sept. 26,…