Meaningful Use

 
Among the first healthcare providers to have money in the bank -- thanks to the federal government's electronic health record (EHR) incentive program -- are two Texas hospitals, Stamford (Texas) Memorial Hospital and Hemphill County Hospital, Canadian, Texas.
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June 7, 2011
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SuccessEHS client Mississippi Family Medicine received their Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive check on May 23 after successfully attesting to Meaningful Use on April 26.
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June 7, 2011
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NorthShore University HealthSystem is one of the first health systems in the country to be recognized by the federal government for demonstrating meaningful use of its electronic medical record system in a way that improves patient care and safety.
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June 6, 2011
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Pacifica Women’s Health Care has chosen to use the 2011 Waiting Room Solutions Web Based Family Practice Electronic Health Record and Practice Management V4.0 software. The practice, which has two busy clinics, looks forward to using this software.
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June 6, 2011
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athenahealth, Inc., today announced that the first Medicare Meaningful Use incentive payment dollars have been issued to its physician clients using athenaClinicals, the company’s EHR offering. This marks the first step in the fulfillment of the Company’s Federal Stimulus Bonus Payment Guarantee Program.
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May 27, 2011
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NextGen Healthcare Information Systems, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Quality Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: QSII) and a leading provider of healthcare information systems and connectivity solutions, announced today that its client, Springfield Center for Family Medicine, Inc., is among the first providers to receive payment for demonstrating Meaningful Use under the Medicare incentive program.
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May 26, 2011
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Sage Healthcare Division, a unit of Sage North America, announced today that its client, Dr. Moore & Associates, a primary care practice in Brooklyn, NY, is among several of the company's clients to successfully attest to Stage 1 meaningful use under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program.
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May 25, 2011
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The Federal Health Architecture (FHA), under management of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) in the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has awarded CGI Federal Inc. (CGI), a wholly-owned U.S. operating subsidiary of CGI Group, Inc. (NYSE: GIB) (TSX: GIB.A), a one base year contract worth US$5.7 million. The contract includes four one-year options that can be executed to support FHA's CONNECT Nationwide Health Information Exchange (NHIE) Gateway Solution.
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May 24, 2011
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The modernization of medical records with electronic health data management has expanded the involvement of digital media and information in the practice of medicine. Growing interest in the academics necessary to build a career in the use, management and distribution of this data has spurred the introduction of Ashford University's Bachelor of Arts in Health Informatics.
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May 23, 2011
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e-MDs, a physician-lead nationwide provider of electronic health records (EHRs), announced that their client, Dr. Jen Brull, of Plainville, KS, has become the first physician in Kansas and one of the first in the nation to be federally certified for Meaningful Use of electronic health records and has received a full incentive payment.
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May 23, 2011
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athenahealth, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHN), a leading provider of cloud-based practice management, electronic health records (EHR), and patient communication services to medical groups, today announced that Health Information Technology Extension Center for Los Angeles (HITEC-LA) has selected athenahealth as one of its preferred vendors to offer certified EHRs to solo, small group, and clinic health care providers.
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May 20, 2011
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Medicity, the industry standard for health information exchange (HIE), announced recently its collaboration with Delta Health Alliance, one of 17 sites nationwide selected by the federal government to serve as a Beacon Community for the pioneering use of health information technology.
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May 18, 2011
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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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Delivering what founder and president Jason Grumet described as "one of the most challenging projects we've undertaken," the Bipartisan Policy Center on Thursday put forth what it hopes will be "a viable political plan to reign in the spiraling costs" of healthcare while also improving quality. At the center is a recommendation to prioritize electronic sharing of information among providers.
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April 19, 2013
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At the annual TEDMED conference on April 16, speakers in the opening session shared stories and innovative ideas on how big data could influence the future of medicine.
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April 18, 2013
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Citing a lack of progress on interoperability, billing increases sometimes associated with EHR adoption, patient privacy concerns and issues with regard to funding sustainability, six GOP senators have written a white paper "re-examining the strategies" of federal health IT initiatives.
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April 18, 2013
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The Premier healthcare alliance, which includes 2,800 hospitals and 93,000 other provider and payer organizations across the country, has partnered with Phytel to automate population health services in order to help its members scale their efforts to improve patient care in a rapidly changing healthcare system.
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April 18, 2013
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A study earlier this year from the University of Missouri showed that most patients took a dim view of doctors who make use of clinical decision support technology.
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April 15, 2013
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At the daylong RFID & RTLS in Healthcare Symposium this past month at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans, experts discussed how wireless technology is transforming how some hospitals operate - and made the case that it has an even more pivotal role to play in the hospitals of the future.
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April 15, 2013
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There was no shortage of big news made - or announced - at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans last month. Also, to capture the imagination, was a star-studded slate of keynote speakers - not Hollywood celebrities, but healthcare IT luminaries - among them an eloquent former president, an innovation visionary, a newly minted CEO who led his New Orleans healthcare system, and the nation's health IT chief - each dispensing inspiration and hope for a bright healthcare future.
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April 15, 2013
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When it comes to your organization successfully adopting electronic health records, it's not just a matter of "going live" with the technology, says Don Harrison, co-leader of the March 3 symposium titled "Solving the Healthcare IT Adoption Dilemma," at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition.
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April 15, 2013
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Kentucky, a state with roughly four million people has achieved what many much more populated states have not yet been able to accomplish, according to its regional extension center leaders.
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April 15, 2013
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A packed house at the Meaningful Use Symposium held March 3 at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition couldn't help but inspire awe and possibly conjure a little concern in the hearts of those attending.
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April 15, 2013
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Microsoft Office 365 brings together online versions of Exchange, SharePoint and Lync along with our familiar Office Professional Plus suite. It is designed to help meet healthcare organizations’ need for patient-centered collaboration, robust security and adherence to privacy regulations, including full support for a HIPAA Business Associate Agreement. Microsoft Office 365 provides the user experience, productivity, and IT management capabilities that healthcare enterprises have come to know and trust for mission-critical applications while affording decision-makers the flexibility in meeting challenging business scenarios through implementation and licensing options.
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April 25, 2013
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In this webinar you will learn how Sutter Health pioneered the integration between Epic EMR and RightFax. Brett Reed, Sr. Engineer at Sutter Health, will review the Epic and RightFax integration and how RightFax streamlined their outbound faxing needs by moving to a fax server.
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April 9, 2013
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Molina Healthcare providers managed healthcare services for over 4.3 million people in 16 states. Rajendra Kadam, IT Director at Molina Healthcare,will review the process of doctor authorizations at Monila and the improved efficiencies in implementing a fax server.
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April 9, 2013
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In this webinar you will learn about the healthcare information exchange and how fax plays a vital role in all healthcare organizations. Greg Horton, Program Development at OpenText, will review how suppliers, providers, payers and pharmacy organizations implement RightFax in order to keep documents secure and costs down while remaining compliant.
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April 9, 2013
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In today’s healthcare environment, there is increasing internal and external pressure to improve outcomes, reduce costs and maximize reimbursement for patient care. All parts of the hospital have a stake in meeting these pressures. To maximize results, an integrated strategy to map detailed clinical information and supply clinicians’ timely and efficient navigational tools at the point of care, can allow teams to identify the highest opportunities and drive meaningful change and improvement. Learn how in this informative, interactive webinar.
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April 9, 2013
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Health and Life Sciences (HLS) organizations are leveraging Microsoft Office as a clinically relevant platform that creates and optimizes a collaborative and securely connected healthcare ecosystem. With Microsoft’s commitment to enabling regulatory and mandated compliance our cloud services and solutions enable HLS organizations to reduce the costs of infrastructure, maintenance, and development; to eliminate complexity; and to increase productivity.
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April 9, 2013
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The change from traditional fee-for-service payments to risk-based and value-based arrangements disrupts the traditional business model for providers, hospitals, and health systems. A new white paper explores how financial modeling can address serious challenges affecting revenues.
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April 4, 2013
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Accountable care offers the nation’s ailing health care system new hope — but it isn’t a new idea. For the past decade, health systems, payers, and providers across the country have been practicing accountable care principles through initiatives such as the Collaborative Payer™ Model, a care delivery innovation jointly developed by a payer and provider that approximates an accountable care organization.
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April 4, 2013
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Many provider organizations are relying on a variety of technologies to improve the physician experience with using an EHR. As part of Providence Health and Services’ enterprise-wide Epic deployment, clinician and IT leadership are providing Dragon Medical as a recommended tool. Several thousand physicians have already been trained on Dragon Medical in support of what will be over 30 hospitals and several hundred clinics live on Epic. This presentation will review Providence’s strategy to optimize the physician.
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April 3, 2013
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The business model of most hospital and independent laboratories will be challenged by Meaningful Use Stage 2 (MU2). Each laboratory will need to think beyond its traditional role of a simple outreach and revenue center. MU2 raises the bar for lab data and clinical laboratories must play a significant role in coordinated care and decision support. Further, MU2 stands to change the nature of EHR-LAB connectivity in the U.S., with much tighter integration being required. Many laboratories may find that they lack the skill set and tools for LOINC, and that their LIS is not up to the task. As a result, laboratories will need start working immediately to take a much more active role in leading, defining, and participating in coordination EHR efforts within their community.
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February 28, 2013
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Atlantic Health System is leading the way in connecting healthcare providers with one another and with patients to help improve care coordination and patient engagement. Increasing levels of clinical connectivity in parallel with improved financial connectivity are driving better care and better financial outcomes. Read Atlantic Health’s story to learn about the incremental steps taken to establish the Jersey Health Connect HIO and about revenue cycle process improvements to improve financial performance via a relationship with RelayHealth.
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February 27, 2013
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A conversation with Darby Dennis, Division CIO, about the value of integrating patient monitoring solutions throughout the University Hospitals system.
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February 26, 2013
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Federal HIT policymakers have dedicated themselves to moving the healthcare sector away from paper and into the digital future.
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October 17, 2011
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Yesterday we highlighted testimony from a recent meeting of ONC’s Meaningful Use working group in which stakeholders described the difficulties some providers are having meeting the MU requirements.
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October 14, 2011
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At a recent meeting of ONC’s Meaningful Use workgroup, healthcare stakeholders reported that many providers are successfully grappling with MU requirements, but problems remain.
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October 13, 2011
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Federal officials have been quick to note the rising number of providers signing up for HITECH incentives, but a recent analysis suggests they may want to pay a little more attention to making sure the program is working the way it was intended.
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October 12, 2011
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While many providers have decided to transition from paper records to EHRs, many others have not, and cost seems to be one of the main reasons for the reluctance.
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October 11, 2011
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One of the questions long underlying the HIT transition is the “field of dreams” question: If you build EHRs, will the people come?
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October 7, 2011
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Since at least the creation of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, it’s been quite clear that the federal government was going to play a major role in the evolution of health IT across the country.
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October 5, 2011
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Ask just about any health IT proponent and you’ll likely be told that HIT is intended, among other things, to help doctors improve their clinical decision-making.
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October 4, 2011
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So you’ve finally decided to take the health IT plunge. Now what do you do?
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October 3, 2011
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HIMSS recently gave the University of California San Diego Health System (UCSD) an award for reaching the highest level of advancement in electronic health records.
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September 29, 2011
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What’s the role of a strategic plan?
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September 28, 2011
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A new report from PwC's Health Research Institute suggests the healthcare sector is falling behind when it comes to protecting patient data, even "as new uses for digital health data emerge and access to confidential patient information expands."
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September 27, 2011
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