Meaningful Use (MU)
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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 »
Why Is EHR Certification Endangering Stage 2 Meaningful Use?
The clock is already ticking for hospitals, especially those eligible and participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. Stage 2 Meaningful Use is already underway for these hospitals which must complete their attestation during one of four mandated reporting quarters. At the same time, they must continue their preparations for ICD-10 come Oct. 1, 2014. Read More »
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Why Is Healthcare IT Under Fire?
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has lost several key figures in recent months. An economic report suggests that meaningful use may have been a waste of money. Why is healthcare IT under such duress?...
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Why Some Docs Will 'Just Say No' To MU
Thousands of eligible providers are working diligently toward EHR incentive payments, but some practices are choosing a different route: abandoning meaningful use altogether in favor of their own solutions, and finding ways to make up for the penalties they’ll incur down the road...
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Why Take EHR Data Out Of Structured Format?
HL7's conversion tool may seem counterproductive, but it's meant to encourage patients to use Blue Button. Read More »
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Why The EHR Market Is Poised For Disruption
Simply put, 2014 is a big year for electronic health record vendors. They must adhere to stricter standards under the federal government's meaningful use program while convincing healthcare providers that they can meet future needs for information exchange, patient engagement and data analytics. Not everyone will make the cut. Read More »
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Will Meaningful Use Lead To Reduced Costs For Hospitals?
One of the tenets driving the adoption of certified EHR technology as part of the EHR Incentive Programs is the belief that meaningful use will help improve healthcare costs. However, little information is available that speaks directly to the cost savings made possible by participating in meaningful use beyond the costs incurred by eligible hospitals and professionals in choosing, implementing, and maintaining their EHR systems. Read More »
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Will Smorgasbord Approach Get More Patients Engaged?
Yesterday, we took umbrage at what struck us as a bit of “preachifying” by a health IT stakeholder. At issue was the apparent lack of support of EHRs by the public, and his reasons why that lack of support was “wrong”. So today let’s turn it around an look at a different, eminently more hands-on approach to patient engagement. Read More »
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With MU Deadline Approaching, Feds Publish Useful Primer
It’s funny how deadlines can focus the mind. For example, healthcare providers who want to make the most financially of the HITECH incentives need to begin by the end of this year, and many providers still aren’t clear on the necessary steps.
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World Health Care Congress: HHS CTO, Premier CIO Talk Data Liquidity
This week’s 10th Annual World Health Care Congress in Washington, D.C., saw a lively discussion April 9 involving a panel of experts on innovation, including Bryan Sivak, chief technology officer of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and Joe Pleasant Jr., senior vice president and CIO of the Premier health alliance. Read More »
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You know Meaningful Use is Real When...
My 83 year old father-in-law returned from a recent outpatient visit to his primary care provider with two customized handouts - a transition of care summary detailing problems/meds/allergies and an opt-in consent for the exchange of that care summary over the state Healthcare Information Exchange, the MassHIWay... Read More »
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Your EHR Doesn't Have To Be A Liability
Shed the status quo in favor of a customer-centric approach to healthcare IT Read More »
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ZH Healthcare Announces New Program For Non-Profit And Charitable Health Clinics
Quality health care isn’t always affordable to those that need it. Federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) and free health clinics provide services to nearly 20 million patients in under served populations. Delivering high quality patient care on a tight budget is hard so ZH Healthcare has created a new program to help these health clinics. Under this new program, ZH Healthcare will offer their cloud-based ZH OpenEMR Patient Package at no cost. The meaningful use certified ZH OpenEMR will allow these clinics to be more efficient, train volunteers more easily, see more patients and provide best possible care to their patients.
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ZH Healthcare OpenEMR Announces New e-Prescription Subscription And Implementation Services For OpenEMR
ZH Healthcare recently announced a new service for their e-Prescription module for the community version of OpenEMR. The e-Prescription, or frequently referred to as eRx, module includes drug-drug and drug-allergy interactions and the ability to both print and transmit prescriptions electronically. Electronic prescription facilitates faster delivery of medicines, refills and removes errors thus making it extremely reliable and safe.
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ZH OpenEMR Announces Lab Interface For OpenEMR
ZH Healthcare recently announced the certification and availability of Lab Interface services. This capability will be utilized in the ZH OpenEMR solution and is available for the community version of OpenEMR as a monthly subscription. The interoperability provides bi-directional capabilities to integrate lab orders and results directly into patient records. The interface will save providers time and money by simplifying workflows and reducing the number of unpaid orders. Clinical and operational quality will improve due to the reduction of manual entry errors and timeliness of lab results.
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