EHR Incentive Program
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HIE, EHR Familiarity Grows, But Provider Frustrations Remain
A newly-released survey by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago shows that while nearly all physicians have heard of the EHR Incentive Program, health information exchange, and other electronic data initiatives, frustration among participants remains high. Read More »
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Latest Data on Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
The latest numbers have been posted on the 'open data' HealthIT.Gov web site about the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) Electronic Health Records (EHR) Incentive Program. The 'open data' Health IT Dashboard maintained by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) provides an overview of key performance measures, facts, figures, graphs, maps, and data tables that enable real-time monitoring of the status and impact related to federal health IT programs and the modernization of the U.S. health care system. Read More »
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Medical Record Advocate Dr. Donald M. Voltz Leads National Grassroots Petition Drive To Reduce 1,000 Daily Medical Error Deaths
A national grass roots campaign launches today to reduce the medical miscommunications in healthcare systems that cause almost 1,000 deaths a day in the U.S. This campaign seeks to forge a government and industry solution in solving this lapse in electronic healthcare communications, a cornerstone of Obamacare. The campaign is headed by Dr. Donald Voltz...Voltz petition on Change.org demands that the government and medical industry implement a solution to end what is a very easy problem to fix. Once signed by 25,000 U.S. residents age 18 and older, the petition will be sent to the White House for review and a specific, timely action plan.
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Montana Hospital Sues Developer Over Electronic Health-Record Certification
A small Montana hospital may be among the first of many providers to go to court to resolve their frustrations with electronic health record systems developers that are either lagging or failing to update their software to the new, more stringent testing and certification requirements of the federal EHR incentive payment program. Read More »
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Montana Hospital Sues EHR Vendor For Contract Breach
Mountainview Medical Center (MVMC), a tiny 6-bed critical access hospital in White Sulphur Springs, Montana, is suing popular EHR vendor NextGen Healthcare Information Systems for breach of contract. According to the Helena Independent Record, MVMC claims that NextGen failed to install nearly half a million dollars’ worth of EHR equipment after missing two implementation deadlines. Read More »
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MU Payments Sail By $16 Billion
As of the end of September, the federal government now reports that a significant number of hospitals and eligible providers are now actively participating in the electronic health record incentive program, with 425,000 registered for the program and 325,00 unique providers having received some kind of incentive payment so far. Read More »
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ONC Shows Path To Stage 2 Meaningful Use Via Blue Button
Things may be changing at the top spot in the Office of the National Coordinator, but one thing staying the same is the department’s commitment to patient engagement through its support of the Blue Button, the tool which gives patients the ability to download their electronic medical record with the press of a button. Read More »
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Open-Source EHR: Benefits And Drawbacks
As open-source software’s popularity grows, health IT has been slow to join the rising tide, even though EHRs were born open-source. What are the pros and cons of open-source EHR software?...
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The 128-Byte Data Field That Could Save Lives And Billions Of Dollars
I can easily think of 5 articles that highlight the extraordinary waste and cost of the U.S. healthcare system. [...] The PwC report concluded that about $1.2 trillion was wasted – each year. Here’s how PwC further categorized that waste... Read More »
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What’s In Store For Health IT In 2014?
2013 was a good year for health IT and has laid the foundation for 2014 to be the biggest year ever for the industry. Read More »
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Why 6 U.S. Senators Are Upset About The EHR Incentive Programs
Six U.S. Senators claim that the $35 billion Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs are not achieving their goals and require a “reboot.” Read More »
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Why Electronic Health Records Aren't More Usable
Federal government incentives worth about $30 billion have persuaded the majority of physicians and hospitals to adopt electronic health record (EHR) systems over the past few years. However, most physicians do not find EHRs easy to use. Physicians often have difficulty entering structured data in EHRs, especially during patient encounters. The records are hard to read because they're full of irrelevant boilerplates generated by the software and lack individualized information about the patient...
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Why I Hope to Help End EHR’s Lack of Interoperability
I am tired of waiting. Millions of medical professionals and patients are tired of waiting. We have been waiting for EHR interoperability since the dawn of EHRs in the 1960s. Enough is enough! Our goal is to achieve EHR interoperability through a grass roots coalition of medical professionals and patients who are tired of waiting. The simple life-saving ability of hospital EHRs to connect to one another so healthcare providers can easily and readily access patient data is not being addressed. This type of issue is traditionally solved by industry or government initiatives. But so far they have not, and apparently will not solve it so I have decided to raise this issue through an outpouring of angry citizens, hospital patients, physicians and others being impacted. Read More »