Tag: Office
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ONC Officially Launches State Meaningful Use Challenge 2.0
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched the State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0, aiming to motivate every state to participate to help continue to improve care for all their patients. The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has officially launched the State Meaningful…
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EHR Certification News for the week ending April 5th
The certification of EHR systems is an ongoing process – as is the notification of those certifications. There were two such announcements this week. The first is from iChartsMD who announced certification of iChartsMD v5.2. iCharts also announced that they’ll be entering the already crowded hospital market for EHRs. The second certification announcement came from…
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ONC Grants Promote HIE Governance Work
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has awarded grants to two organizations to continue their work on health information exchange governance. ONC has awarded $285,000 to DirectTrust and $200,000 to the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup to support their work advancing the governance of health information exchanges. The Office of the National…
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CMS oversight of health plan website subpar
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has done a poor job overseeing its “Plan Finder” website, created to aid consumers in their search for appropriate medical coverage, according to a report unveiled this week by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General. read more
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Hospitals, Representative Ask For Extension of EMR “Safe Harbor”
Right now, it’s legal for hospitals to give doctors EMRs under certain circumstances, despite the existence of the Stark law banning payments intended to induce referrals. Specifically, hospitals won’t face anti-kickback enforcement if doctors pay 15 percent of the cost of EMRs donated by hospitals. But the Stark law exception established by CMS, plus a…
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At Healthcare Experience Design conference, designers rethink ‘broken processes’
At the third annual Healthcare Experience Design conference on Monday, several hundred designers, developers and other creative thinkers put their minds to drawing up better experiences for patients and providers alike. “We need you to help this industry learn how to do better,” Jacob Reider, MD, chief medical officer at the Office of the National…
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Exclusive Interview: ONC’s Judy Murphy Talks about Meaningful Use Stages 2 and 3—and the Power of the Patient
In her first post-HIMSS interview, the ONC’s Deputy National Coordinator for Programs & Policy shares her perspectives on this year’s HIMSS Conference, on Stages 2 and 3 of meaningful use, and on her current passion—patient engagement, with HCI’s Editor-in-Chief Mark Hagland Senior officials from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and from the…
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Stakeholders must double up on EHR security
It's somewhat self-serving that the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services published a notice in the Federal Register this week about its upcoming survey of the 115 covered entities that were audited for HIPAA compliance in 2012 pursuant to the Office for Civil Rights' (OCR) pilot audit program. read more
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EHR adoption, Meaningful Use progress up for acute care hospitals
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT last week released a pair of data briefs on electronic health record adoption and Meaningful Use attestation for acute care hospitals in the U.S. based on data from the American Hospital Association.
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Interoperability: The High Jump and The Long Jump with ONC’s Doug Fridsma
I’ll admit, I was incredibly nervous about interviewing Dr. Doug Fridsma, the Chief Science Officer for the Office of the National Coordinator and the face of both the Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework and the Federal Health Architecture initiative. Not only do I consider him a key luminary, but his overarching responsibility for the future…