Meaningful Use

 
In the year since the first NYeC gala, there have been revolutionary advancements in health IT throughout New York and across the nation. On Monday, October 15th, five champions of health IT will be highlighted at the second gala and award ceremony.
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September 28, 2012
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Aetna and Hunterdon HealthCare Partners have announced a new accountable care agreement that will improve the quality and cost of patient care, helping members and plan sponsors save money.
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July 19, 2012
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MEDSEEK, the industry's only provider of the optimal 360-degree online healthcare experience, has announced its engagement to develop and deploy a fully integrated patient experience for Orlando Health.
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August 11, 2011
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Hamilton General Hospital, located in Hamilton, Texas, has met Stage 1 meaningful use criteria for Medicare and Medicaid with the certified electronic health record (EHR) from Healthcare Management Systems Inc.(HMS).
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August 11, 2011
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Dr. Martin H. Orens, FACEP, a board certified emergency room physician, has developed a new electronic health record (EHR) technology system to solve the issue of patients not being able to access or share medical information with any doctor, laboratory or hospital of their choice. KIS Electronic Health Record (KIS-EHR), is a technologically advanced web-based service that allows patients to manage the accessibility of their health records. Low in cost, KIS-EHR is a secure, comprehensive digitized medical record system that can be accessed at any time, from anywhere.
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August 8, 2011
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To help healthcare providers of all specialties, their staff and the public to master the intricacies of EHR Alameda Services, a dynamic Health Information Technology (HIT) organization specializes in workforce development and intense Electronic Health Record (EHR) training, today announced the launch and availability of its first e-learning segment that will serve as a powerful Web-based EHR training tool.
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July 21, 2011
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In a recent keynote address at a UNCG-hosted conference, an official from the U.S. Health Information Technology Research Center noted there are 30,000 healthcare organizations in the U.S. planning or implementing a move to Electronic Health Record technology over the near term. And having the right information technology talent is fundamental to their success.
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June 28, 2011
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For more than 40 Indiana physicians and hospitals, compliance with new federal electronic recordkeeping standards could net more than $10 million in incentives as they adopt information technology systems geared to improve their operations and the level of patient care.
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June 16, 2011
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Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America, today announced that more than a dozen healthcare facilities have chosen Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition Software to improve clinical efficiency and manage the administrative operation of their practices through their use of electronic health records (EHR), serving thousands of patients, throughout the United States.
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June 14, 2011
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As hospitals scramble to adopt the patient-centered focus that is at the heart of federal regulations and legislation aimed at improving healthcare in the U.S., LodgeNet Healthcare today announced the expansion of its interactive patient engagement solution that encourages patients to become educated, active members of their care teams.
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June 8, 2011
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Sage Healthcare Division announced today that Spring Hill Primary Care, a multispecialty practice in South Charleston, West Virginia, will implement the Sage Intergy Meaningful Use Edition to meet federal meaningful use requirements, improve the practice’s financial process, and streamline the clinic’s overall business efficiency from patient intake to billing.
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June 7, 2011
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Practice Fusion, the fastest growing Electronic Health Record (EHR) community in the country, has been awarded ambulatory certification (ONC-ATCB 2011/2012)as a Complete EHR by Drummond Group, an Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ATCB).Practice Fusion has also launched new Meaningful Use resources to help doctors in small medical practices prepare for EHR incentives.
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June 7, 2011
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The preponderance of mobile voice technologies is going to give a big boost to efforts to empower patients to take a more active role in their own healthcare, says Nick van Terheyden, MD, chief medical information officer for Nuance Communications. Specifically, he sees three trends picking up speed as a result of conversational user interfaces.
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May 15, 2013
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National eHealth Collaborative and Healthwise, a nonprofit organization that develops patient education and engagement technology, announced Tuesday that, as part of their collaborative efforts, Healthwise will make NeHC's Consumer eHealth Readiness Tool available to clients.
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May 15, 2013
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Most healthcare organizations participating in the meaningful use incentive program are focused right now on achieving Stages 1 or 2, but the MU program goes on long past that, says one expert. Organizations need to start considering how they will make meaningful use sustainable into the future.
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May 14, 2013
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"It's systems that let ordinary people do extraordinary things," national coordinator for health IT Farzad Mostashari, MD said during a Health IT Policy Committee meeting talk that vice chair Paul Tang described immediately afterward as "inspiring and challenging."
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May 14, 2013
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The number of U.S. physicians using electronic medical records has topped 90 percent, and nearly half of the doctors polled for a new Accenture survey say they now use health information exchange technology -- an uptick of 32 percent.
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May 9, 2013
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Responding to a feedback request from Senators on Capitol Hill regarding health IT adoption, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives called for a one-year pushback of the Stage 2 meaningful use deadline and defended the efficacy of the federal incentive program.
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May 6, 2013
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) this year implemented pre-payment audits on Medicare and dually eligible -- Medicare and Medicaid -- providers participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. The audit programs target between 5 and 10 percent of eligible professionals attesting for meaningful use, according to Elizabeth Holland, director of the HIT Initiatives Group within CMS' Office of E-Health Standards and Services.
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May 3, 2013
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The Department of Health and Human Services has released an enhanced National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care -- a blueprint meant to help organizations improve healthcare quality in serving diverse communities in the U.S.
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May 1, 2013
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The Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative will offer program management services to support the Massachusetts eHealth Institute Last Mile Program, which seeks to stimulate adoption of health information exchange technology.
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April 25, 2013
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Meaningful use will bring about the most significant improvements in the health information technology arena, say health IT executives, who are working tirelessly to meet industry deadlines. However, a new survey finds it's still a trying task, with officials citing regulation ambiguity and competing IT projects as the biggest barriers to moving forward with MU.
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April 23, 2013
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Navigating the waters around meaningful use can be tricky, but there are plenty of tools and techniques at hand to help make the transition a smooth and positive one.
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April 23, 2013
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Taking a cue from U.S. stimulus initiatives such as HITECH, Asia Pacific countries are seeing a big uptick in electronic health record adoption thanks to government investment, according to a new report from Frost & Sullivan.
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April 23, 2013
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A comprehensive eBook, offering the tips and tools to help healthcare professionals on the path to MU and beyond.
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May 9, 2013
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Watch this informative video to learn how Palomar Health - the largest health district in the state of California - implemented healthcare alert management software to connect its nurse call system with the existing EHR and phone systems to improve care team communication and patient experiences.
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January 2, 2013
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In January 2012, Healthcare IT News conducted a survey to identify drivers and challenges for developing and deploying a solution for centralized digital document delivery that complies with healthcare industry regulations. Read this report to learn the key findings from the survey investigating trends in the adoption of digital document management systems by healthcare institutions since the rollout of the <a href="/directory/health-information-technology-economic-and-clinical-health-hitech-act" target="_blank" class="directory-item-link">HITECH</a> Act’s financial incentive programs.
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September 2, 2012
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In this Webinar, we will address health BI challenges and discuss our end to end business analytics platform that transforms the data center, enables modern applications, unlocks insights on any data, and empowers people centric IT.
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May 15, 2013
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Recent headlines have raised plenty of eyebrows with record setting big-dollar penalties levied against healthcare organizations due to HIPAA violations. Industry experts surmise that this unprecedented trend is the result of significant changes that have occurred recently to HIPAA regulations.
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May 14, 2013
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The approach of capturing healthcare data via structured templates and drop-down menus in today's EHR user interfaces comes at the expense of lost physician productivity and isn't working in practice. Physicians value dictation to capture the complete patient story and can be resistant to adopting template-based systems. To achieve Meaningful Use, the enterprise has need for structured and encoded data to optimize care plans, drive decision support, increase quality, and ensure appropriate billing. Creating an additional challenge is the lack of widespread interoperability in healthcare data. This webinar explores close-loop clinical documentation as a solution that manages these seemingly opposing needs.
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May 13, 2013
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Automated medication administration, electronic health records, computerized physician order entry (CPOE), barcode point-of-care (BPOC) and other automated procedures for improving patient care all rely on accurate input that barcoding can provide. This white paper will explain the role wristbands can play in improving patient safety and freeing nurses and other valuable medical personnel from paperwork and clerical tasks.
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May 6, 2013
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Do you still rely on tactical integration? Strategic interoperability can move your organization beyond tactical integration by connecting internal and external data, systems, and users across the broader IT ecosystem. This approach is increasingly critical to support a broad range of major healthcare initiatives including ACO, analytics, meaningful use, population management, device integration, and more. Strategic interoperability can deliver quick-to-achieve breakthrough clinical and operational benefits.
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May 6, 2013
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The CMS EHR Incentive program (commonly known as Meaningful Use) is not just about getting all providers to use EHRs. It’s creating a foundation of detail clinical and administrative data – all expressed in the same standard vocabulary – that can be used to automate the calculation and reporting of patient outcomes. With the shift from volume to value in care delivery and reimbursement models, comprehensive quality measures are an essential element – else how can we determine value? But the historical approach to measuring quality using manually abstracted data will not work in a healthcare environment focused on value. Quality metrics must be automated. The industry must shift to eMeasures – metrics calculated and reported based on data captured in the EHR as a by-product of care delivery. This spring, CMS published the timeline for implementing a unified set of electronic clinical quality measures (eCQMs) and e-reporting requirements intended to synchronize and integrate CMS quality programs and reduce provider reporting burden. Are you prepared to embark on the journey to the new generation of quality measures and reporting?
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May 6, 2013
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In healthcare organizations today, it's all about getting the most from the technology you choose by providing versatility. One monitor mounted on a wall in a patient room, programmed at the back end with applications, cable and other features, can deliver a host of multimedia choices. These can range from TV, movies, music, Internet access, email and games to educational information, treatment tips and even meal menus - far from the days of simple in-room television.
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May 6, 2013
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The Office of the National Coordinator has specified the use of RxNorm as the medication and medication allergy vocabulary constraint within certified systems which enable Meaningful Use Stage 2 clinical information exchanges. Specifications for the electronic computation of clinical quality measures (CQM) leverage “eMeasures” and their associations to medication and medication allergy value sets to enable the programmatic computation of summary CQM reports for CMS submission.
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April 30, 2013
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As healthcare reform continues its fast and uncertain path, healthcare organizations know no matter what, information is going to be key in providing insights into their business. It can help to identify trends in services and costs so changes can be made. Simply getting to the information can be a challenge on its own, but the key is accessing information, having the right tools to be able to unscramble the information to drive change improvements, and be the catalyst that will drive your organization to consider making a move today.
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April 29, 2013
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With this post, HITECHWatch is calling it a day.
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November 4, 2011
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On the matter of EHR safety, there seems to be some disagreement.
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November 3, 2011
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Investments are often risky, but the current huge investment in health IT often seems to bring a particularly unique risk.
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November 2, 2011
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Separately, doctors and patients are facing a steep learning curve as the HIT transition continues. But the biggest problem looming may be the one that the two camps can only solve together.
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November 1, 2011
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When the topic of protecting patient data comes up, the discussion usually concerns how best to protect information from being stolen or inappropriately accessed. But that’s the easy part of the privacy debate.
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October 31, 2011
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Progress brings new benefits, but it also brings new uncertainties.
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October 28, 2011
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OK, the headline is misleading. There aren’t really a million consumer health apps available for smartphone users.
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October 26, 2011
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Yesterday we floated a question about the proper role of government in facilitating system-wide change.
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October 25, 2011
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One time-honored question in policy circles goes like this: Should government prescribe specific solutions, or just point to the goal and let industry stakeholders figure out how to get there?
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October 24, 2011
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Naturally, when it comes to the number of providers signing up for the HITECH incentive program, HIT policymakers would like to be able to report a banner first year.
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October 20, 2011
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If you had to choose the one idea driving the HIT transition, it would probably be along the lines of, “Information is good, and more information is better.”
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October 19, 2011
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One of the unpleasant truths of legislative initiatives is that, more often than not, policymakers get more than they bargained for.
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October 18, 2011
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