clinical quality measures (CQMs)
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CMS Extends Hospital 2014 Meaningful Use Reporting Deadline
The 2014 meaningful use reporting deadline for eligible hospitals and CAHs is now set for Dec. 31, 2014...
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EHR Certification Process: 'Massive' Changes Ahead?
Health IT Policy Committee wants to streamline process, limit scope of certification
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Feature Overlaps Between Immunization Information Systems and EHRs
Immunization Information Systems (IIS) have been around for nearly twenty years. Their functionality, completeness, and usefulness have all increased over this time. IIS and electronic health record (EHR) systems have always had unique features, as well as some overlapping features, and the deployment of EHRs has enhanced the local immunization capabilities of clinician practices. Several critical clinical features that are considered to be core functions of IIS are beginning to be supported by EHRs. This article will review and discuss five such critical features: online data entry, clinical decision support for immunization, reminder-recall, practice-level assessment of up-to-date status, and patient access to their immunization data.
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GAO Comes Down On Meaningful Use Program
The Government Accountability Office has recently raised an alarm that the meaningful use incentive program might not be all that it’s cracked up to be.
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GAO Hits EHR Incentive Program Hard
The GAO recently took a swipe at the government's Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Program, saying it lacked strategy and called for action to establish a strategy in order to achieve its goals, especially those aimed at improving care.
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Hospitals Must Attest To Meaningful Use By November 30
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) would like to remind hospitals that the deadline for attestation for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program is November 30. Those who do not attest by that time will not be able to receive a 2013 incentive. Read More »
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Open-source Work Aims To Align CQM, CDS
Providers and hospitals pursuing EHR incentives know about clinical quality measures (CQMs) and clinical decision support (CDS) in terms of reporting measures required under Stage 2 of meaningful use. [...] Read More »
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OSEHRA 2014 Summit Shows the Future for Open Source EHR's— US Government IT Procurement
The recent 2014 OSEHRA Open Source Summit: Global Collaboration in Healthcare IT, held September 3-5 in Bethesda, MD, was a huge success and clearly marks a watershed moment for open source health information technology (HIT), as well as a transformation in the way that US government agencies procure technology. The Summit featured more than 120 speakers addressing 90 separate sessions over three days. According to Seong K. Mun, President and CEO of OSEHRA, “this Summit demonstrated solid growth in both the depth and breadth of the OSEHRA Community.” Read More »
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