Meaningful Use

 
In the Black
"Concerned, but not panicking," is how John Bosco, chief information officer (CIO) at North Shore Long Island Jewish Health System, Allscripts' biggest customer, described his reaction to the electronic health record (EHR) vendor's Dec. 19 announcement that CEO Glen Tullman would be stepping down after 15 years at the helm - and that former Cerner executive Paul Black would now be steering the ship.
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January 30, 2013
Bernie Monegain
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Feelin' fines?
"I don't do risk assessments; I assess risk," said Sharon Finney, corporate data security officer at Adventist Health System, speaking Thursday at the Healthcare IT News/HIMSS Media Privacy & Security Forum in Boston.
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January 30, 2013
Mike Miliard
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Movin' on up
"I would characterize this past year as an accelerating year," says John Hoyt, executive vice president of HIMSS Analytics.
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January 30, 2013
Mike Miliard
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Healthcare IT News announces results of 2013 H.I.T. Men and Women Awards
Healthcare IT News has announced the results of its fourth annual H.I.T.Men and Women Awards, honoring top leaders in healthcare information technology.
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January 29, 2013
Healthcare IT News Staff
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ONC offers HIE guidance
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has published research to help professionals with policy, technical and business-related challenges to health information exchange. These include query-based exchange, push notification, provider directories, master data management, consumer engagement and more.
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January 29, 2013
Mary Mosquera
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EHRs help cut Medicaid costs, study says
Tracking Medicaid beneficiaries who frequently use emergency departments and adopting electronic tracking systems to exchange patient information is among one of the ways states can cut Medicaid costs, according to a new report by the Washington Health Care Authority.
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January 28, 2013
Diana Manos
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HL7 sharpens focus on clinical quality
Standards group Health Level Seven International (HL7) has formed the Clinical Quality Information Work Group. HL7 plans to offer more education to providers and the new work group will offer leadership in the development of standards artifacts and educational content to all stakeholders involved in quality measurement efforts.
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January 25, 2013
Bernie Monegain
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New era of health data security begins
The enhanced set of protections finalized in the omnibus HIPAA privacy and security rule released Jan.17 now becomes the new baseline for anyone who handles health information. It doesn't change meaningful use requirements, but combined, the two may drive more providers to protect patient data, according to privacy and security experts.
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January 22, 2013
Mary Mosquera
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Community health centers land $4.25M
Neighborhood Health Plan (NHP) and Partners HealthCare will award a total of $4.25 million in a first round of grants through the Partnership for Community Health to all 49 community health centers (CHCs) that are members of the Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers to fund healthcare IT, meaningful use training, medical coding training and performance improvement.
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January 21, 2013
Bernie Monegain
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Room for improvement in EHR quality measurement, says Weill Cornell study
A new study by Weill Cornell Medical College spotlights the need for improving quality measurement from electronic health records, showing that both technology and process changes could increase the accuracy of EHR reporting.
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January 16, 2013
Mike Miliard
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PCE Systems to partner with Michigan HIE
The Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services (MiHIN) has announced that PCE Systems, a provider of electronic health record (EHR) solutions to Michigan's behavioral health organizations, has executed the legal data sharing agreements to become a virtually qualified data sharing organization (VQO) through MiHIN.
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January 15, 2013
Diana Manos
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AMA, CHIME air 'concerns' about Stage 3
The American Medical Association and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives have both submitted comments to the Office of the National Coordinator, laying out their concerns about -- and suggestions for -- Stage 3 meaningful use.
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January 14, 2013
Mike Miliard
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How to design next-generation EHR data models
Today’s reality of patient management is “disjointed care” and most of the collaborators in a patient’s care team don’t know what each other is doing for the patient in real time. Knowing all the different participants in the patient’s care team and coordinating and integrating their electronic activities is what successful EHRs must handle with ease.
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June 7, 2012
Shahid Shah
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Integrating information -- not just systems -- achieves meaningful use
Looking ahead, it’s clear that achieving true meaningful use requires us to move beyond simply integrating systems to the more complex task of integrating information.
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June 5, 2012
George T. Schwend
Brian Levy, MD
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Integrating information -- not just systems -- achieves meaningful use
Looking ahead, it’s clear that achieving true meaningful use requires us to move beyond simply integrating systems to the more complex task of integrating information.
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June 5, 2012
George T. Schwend
Brian Levy, MD
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Like it or not, MU is underway
No matter how you feel about the federal incentive program to drive the adoption of healthcare it, the numbers speak for themselves.
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May 18, 2012
Diana Manos
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National Nurses Week: Making meaningful use of meaningful use
Due to their influence in patient outcomes and patient satisfaction scores, health facilities are developing key positions of influence for nurse leaders, who are playing major roles in health IT decisions.
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May 9, 2012
Chad Johnson
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Blowing the Social Whistle on Patient Acquisition
I try to keep my eyes open for new healthcare technology to report on, and I have to admit that I have a soft spot for any sort of healthcare IT related to social media.
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April 30, 2012
Jennifer Dennard
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Promoting Patient Engagement in Meaningful Use
The proposed rule for Stage 2 Meaningful Use has a strong emphasis on patient engagement. This is certainly a good thing, and I am very glad to see the focus put on this area.
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April 17, 2012
Brian Ahier
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Cool Technology of the Week: HIPAA-Compliant Public Cloud
Healthcare organizations have avoided the use of "public cloud" because of HIPAA/HITECH privacy concerns, lack of breach indemnification/data integrity guarantees, and the unwillingness of many cloud providers to sign business associate agreements.
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April 13, 2012
John Halamka
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2012: The Year of Meaningful Use
Health IT plays a central role in building a 21st Century health care system -- where care is safer, better coordinated, and patient-centered, where we pay for the right care, not just more care.
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March 29, 2012
Farzad Mostashari, MD
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What I learned at HIMSS about developments in health IT for the rest of 2012
Like many of you, I made the annual pilgrimage to the HIMSS Conference last month but I didn’t write much publicly about it. Here’s what I learned while I was in Vegas and my takeaways for the rest of the year.
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March 27, 2012
Shahid Shah
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Patient engagement is a two-way effort in meaningful use Stage 2
Engagement is a two way street. It takes both parties to create engagement, not just one or the other.
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March 21, 2012
Keith W. Boone
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Now there are five
Jon Huntsman, one of the Republican candidates with a background of instituting new healthcare measures, dropped out of the presidential race Jan. 16.
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January 17, 2012
Tom Sullivan
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