Tag: public-health
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A Buyer’s Guide for Public Health EHR
By efficiently collecting data in a way that it can be easily shared across multiple healthcare organizations and leveraged for quality improvement, EHRs can significantly improve public and population outcomes. Beyond data collection, EHRs can help with reporting and surveillance as well. This, along with immunization registries and electronic laboratory reporting, can lead to the…
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Preparing for a Meaningful Use Audit
ONC/CMS provides strong oversight of the Meaningful Use program by continuousy reexamining the quality of certified products and auditing hospitals and practices that have attested to meaningful use. Last week, ONC “de-certified” a product for not supporting the functionality required by regulations . Meaningful Use audits are done by Figliozzi and Company on behalf of…
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Analysis: 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans receive prescription for high-risk medication
More than 1 in 5 seniors with Medicare Advantage plans received a prescription for a potentially harmful “high risk medication” in 2009, according to a newly published analysis by Brown University public health researchers.
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A Massachusetts HIE Update
In the next few weeks, BIDMC will begin sending 50,000 patient encounter records per week through the state HIE (the MassHIWay) to our quality measurement service operated by the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. Also in a few weeks, all the daily reportable lab, syndromic surveillance, and immunization data required by Meaningful Use Stage 2 will be…
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CMS Creates Web-Based Tool for Medicare Chronic Conditions
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Medicare Chronic Conditions Dashboard to provide researchers, physicians, public health professionals, and policymakers data on the geographic spread, required services and costs for beneficiaries with multiple chronic conditions. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced a new Medicare Chronic Conditions…
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SuccessEHS among First EHR Vendors to Enter Production HIE with South Carolina’s HIE
SuccessEHS has announced that they are among the first ambulatory electronic health record vendors to successfully move into production health information exchange with South Carolina’s Health Information Exchange (SCHIEx).
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It’s Time for a National Patient Identifier
Here’s a guest post from Meg Aranow, Principal at Aranow Consulting LLC. Some of us remember that the early HIPAA discussions included the concept of a national patient identifier. As legislators and administrators attempted to find the right balance between the risks and rewards of automation, ultimately the patient identifier was thought to pose…