Meaningful Use (MU)
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Hatch Wants To Pause, Reassess Meaningful Use
Despite lauding technology's potential to transform healthcare for the better, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said he thinks Meaningful Use needs to be reassessed. Read More »
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Have Best-Of-Breed EMRs Lost The Hospital Battle?
Is a best-of-breed or enterprise/single vendor EMR implementation the best approach for your hospital? This topic has been the focus of much debate ever since EMR software came into existence, and both sides have compelling arguments. Read More »
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Hawaii Beacon Touts New Successes
When ONC reported to Congress last month on both the HITECH Act's achievements and the barriers left to overcome, officials cited notable progress seen across the $250 million Beacon Community projects. [...] Read More »
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Hawaii HIE Supporting A Diverse Health IT Ecosystem
Hawaii was one of the last states in the U.S. to adopt Direct secure messaging services, said Christine Sakuda, executive director of the Hawaii Health Information Exchange, but in the past few years, providers and physicians on the state’s seven islands have embraced electronic health record systems, through a mix of public and payer incentives. Read More »
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Health Care IT Chief's Departure Leaves Gap In EHR Leadership
Dr. Farzad Mostashari, the Obama administration's national coordinator for health IT, announced his resignation on Aug. 6. Read More »
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Health Execs Uneasy About EHR Budgets, Survey Finds
About half the business administrators at hospitals or health systems who participated in a recent poll conducted by New York-based audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG said they're halfway or more done with deployment of their electronic health record system; 48 percent, however, said they're only somewhat comfortable with their organization's budget for doing so. Read More »
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Health Information Exchanges: More Innovation Needed
HIEs have been slow to develop offerings that organizations can use to improve care coordination, says report. Read More »
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Health Information Technology: Putting the Patient Back into Health Care
Most government advisory committees are stocked with representatives of corporations and special interest groups who distort government policies, sometimes unconsciously and with good intentions, to fertilize their own turfs. In health information technology, we have a rare chance to ensure that the most affected members of the public actually have their own direct representative.
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Health IT Collaborative Releases Patient Engagement Guide
Healthcare providers wanting a recipe to follow to improve patient engagement within their organizations can start by looking over the Patient Engagement Framework released by the National eHealth Collaborative. Read More »
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Health IT Taking Flight – What Is in Store for the Year Ahead
Earlier this month, I wrote about some of the most important and notable highlights in the world of health IT and ONC over the past year. The achievements of 2011 built on hard work and progress, which has been underway for many years.The HITECH Act is helping to accelerate this momentum—like a turbocharger in a racecar. Read More »
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Health Level Seven International Project Supports the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s Blue Button® Requirements
[Health Level Seven® (HL7®) International] today announced a response to the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) recent requirement that U.S. Federal Employees Health Benefit Program (FEHBP) health insurance carriers support the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Blue Button® text file format as a means of conveying personal health information to federal employees. Read More »
Healthcare Corp. Approved For EHR Incentive Payment
The Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. stands to get $1.4 million within a month as incentive payment for its electronic health record project after it received drawdown approval over the weekend. Read More »
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Healthcare IT Spending to Grow by Triple Digits: Black Book HIE Survey
Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) hold boundless potential for improving the efficacy and safety of healthcare delivery by moving critical patient data to the point of care, through healthcare communities. The crucial role of HIEs to accomplish a health care organization’s move to patient-centric accountable care is undeniable, however, 97% of US physicians and 80% of hospitals are meaningfully unconnected. A small group of HIE vendors rise to the top of a sweeping early adopter satisfaction survey.
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Healthcare Needs a Big Data Infusion
To improve medicine and health IT, we need a big heaping dose of data. That’s the takeaway from a conversation with Aneesh Chopra, the former U.S. CTO and assistant to President Obama, at South by Southwest in Austin on Friday. Read More »
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Healthcare's Big Problem With Little Data
Every year, the analyst firm Gartner publishes between 90 and 100 “Hype Cycles” with insight on about 1,900 different technologies. The Hype Cycle above is the one for Emerging Technologies for 2012 (published in August) and shows “Big Data” heading toward the “Peak of Inflated Expectations.” Read More »
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