Tag: Meaningful
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Mostashari: ‘Too soon’ to talk about MU Stage 3 readiness
When it comes to Stage 3 and beyond of Meaningful Use, National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari wants everybody to step back and take a deep breath. read more
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Morning Headlines 3/28/13
Caradigm Kills eHealth, Partners with Orion Caradigm, the Microsoft and GE Healthcare collaboration, has announced a partnership with Orion Health wherein Caradigm will go to market with Orion Health’s HIE solution rather than its own poorly performing eHealth HIE solution which is now being sunset.
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CMS Produces an Interactive Stage 2 Resource for Meaningful Use and Clinical Quality Measures
The CMS has released a useful interactive document that can help medical professionals and hospitals better prepare for state 2 Meaningful Use of the EHR Incentive Program. The document, called the The Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs: STAGE 2 TOOLKIT is available here . The document is hyperlink rich and amazingly…
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The March HIT Standards Committee Meeting
The March HIT Standards Committee focused on streamlining test scripts for certification, an overview of FDA Universal Device Identifier rule making, clinical summary formats for Long Term Care, and the latest updates from ONC.
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CMS launches prepayment audits of Meaningful Use attesters
In what appears to be a shift in policy, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun auditing providers attesting to Meaningful Use of their electronic health record systems before doling out incentive payments, according to a report from the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP). read more
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Meaningful Use Stage 3 Priorities
In my reading, I came across this message of what the priorities for meaningful use stage 3 should be: To be considered for Stage 3, objectives must support new models of care, address national health priorities, promote advancement, be achievable and widely adopted by 2016, and be reasonable from a products and organizational perspective. I…
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The EHR Debate Reaches a Boiling Point
Over the course of the past few months, the debate over EHRs and the meaningful use legislation has intensified, thanks to various mainstream media articles, reports, studies and surveys, and a backlash in some quarters—particularly among some physician end-users—against current EHR adoption.
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Meaningful use can be stretch even for EHR pioneer
Vanderbilt University Medical Center was a pioneer in the use of health information technology and rolled out its homegrown StarPanel electronic health record back in 2001. But this early experience didn’t mean that meeting the meaningful-use…
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Clever Trumps Sincere in HCIT Usability
There’s been a lot of progress at many levels in the last year on the usability front. At HIMSS earlier this month, there were 26 highly instructive presentations on the topic of usability. In this post, I’m going to introduce you the concept of making an explicit distinction between the end user’s mindset, and one…