Tag: national
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Two EHRs Fail Tests, ONC Revokes Certifications
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has revoked certifications for two electronic health records, previously certified as products to be used as part of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs.
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ONC revokes firm’s EHR certifications
For the first time, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS has revoked certifications for two electronic health-record systems, raising troubling questions about how physicians and hospitals should react if…
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The Promise of Structured Data Capture
Although there is strong interest in leveraging clinical data to supplement data collected for other purposes, including research, patient safety, and public health reporting, the use of EHR data for supplemental purposes has been limited due to a lack of uniformity in the terminology and definitions of data elements across EHRs.
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CMS: More Than 85 Percent of Hospitals are Participating in Meaningful Use Incentive Programs
More than 85 percent of eligible hospitals are participating in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and more than 75 percent have received incentive payments for meaningfully using electronic health record (EHR) technology as of March 2013, according to a fact sheet released by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the…
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Washington Debrief: Sebelius Responds to GOP Senators on HITECH Criticism
Six Senators sent letters to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and health IT stakeholders questioning the effectiveness of HITECH implementation. In response to the report, Secretary Sebelius said, “We haven’t gotten to implementation of Stage 2 yet,” Sebelius said in a recent Senate Finance Committee budget hearing. “You might be reading the final chapter before we…
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Overcoming the Obstacles to State-to-State HIE Interoperability
What can the government do to better enable health information exchange (HIE)? That’s the core question the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology recently asked in a request for information (RFI). Micky Tripathi, president and CEO of the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative (MAeHC)…
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New licensing agreement to promote discovery in health IT and improve economic Growth
The Regenstrief Institute Inc., an international leader in electronic medical records and health information exchange research, development and operations, is licensing its Indiana Network for Patient Care and DOCS4DOCS clinical results delivery software to a subsidiary of the Indiana Health Information Exchange. This licensing agreement represents the single most significant transfer of discovery out of…
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EHR Association Speaks Out Against Vendor Fee in Budget
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society’s (HIMSS) EHR Association, a non-profit trade group, has expressed its discontent with a portion of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) 2014 Budget that would implement a user fee for vendors that would get their products certified Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Certification…
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ONC to impose user fee on EHR vendors
One of the more unique provisions of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT's proposed 2014 budget is the imposition of a new “user fee” on electronic health record vendors and developers to support ONC's certification and standardization activities. read more
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ONC proposes EHR vendor fee
Citing the crush of an increasing workload and dwindling government funding, the Office of the National Coordinator has proposed a health IT user fee that would be imposed on health IT vendors who certify their products through the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The HIMSS EHR Association opposes ONC’s proposal