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Does the HIMSS conference have you thinking about other conferences to consider this Spring? Check out some great upcoming events. 18th Annual Wharton Health Care Business Confernce, February 16-17 in Philadelphia, PA A leading health care business forum for industry professionals, academics, and students. This year’s theme is “Innovation in a Changing Health Care Environment” [...]
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a key part of EHR adoption and achieving the goals of the HITECH Act. The exchange must be secure and between authorized stakeholders in the healthcare community. The goals are to improve the delivery of patient care by removing the communication barriers between the stakeholders with a single sign on [...]
CMS Reminders on EHR Incentive Program Dates CMS has issued a reminder on important upcoming dates in the EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals. The reporting period ended on December 31, 2011 for EPs who participated in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2011. If you participated in the program this means you completed 90 [...]
HITECH Act mandates audits of health care providers to determine HIPAA compliance By William O’Toole O’Toole Law Group HIPAA privacy and security audits are not looming out there on the horizon, they are happening now. The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) mandates audits of health care providers to investigate [...]
2014: Stage 1 Meaningful Use and Stage 2? I thought as we moved deeper into Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU) the questions would get easier. This is not always the case. A topic came up this week that drove me all the way back to the Final Rule. That’s right, I had to get a step ladder, [...]
What if everyone opts out? America has a love hate relationship with the Internet. On the one hand we love getting our information right now, on the other we can’t stand the invasion of privacy that comes with it. If you are paying attention to more than Google’s doodles these days you are aware of [...]
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, the ONC, West Wireless Health Institute, and Health Affairs co-hosted last week’s Care Innovation Summit. This first of its kind summit was conceived to bring together and begin a dialogue with the marketplace on transforming healthcare delivery. The featured speakers for the day included the CEO of West [...]
CMS EHR Incentive Program Update Calling 888-734-6433 will connect you to the CMS EHR Information Center Interactive Voice Response System (IVR) System. CMS has announced upgrades and new features to this system to assist you with topics like registration and attestation. The upgrades will enable EHR Incentive program participants to obtain information on the program [...]
In December 2010 the America Competes Act was passed in response to President Obama’s call for agencies to “increase their ability to promote and harness innovation by using policy tools such as awards and competitions”. The Act allows agencies to create and initiate competitions that invoke innovation and award prizes. Through this Act the ONC [...]
Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Author: Keys to EMR/EHR Success Why Are Patient Portals More Important Than You Think? Patient portals facilitate the exchange of information between patients and physician practices. What was once considered a nice option for your EHR is becoming a necessity. Unfortunately, not all patient portals offer the same features. Failure to [...]
Does Meaningful Use require the physician be the one to enter patient data into a certified EHR? One intriguing Meaningful Use question arrived by email last week. The question boiled down to this: “Does the Eligible Professional have to actually be the one that enters data into their Certified EHR to receive the CMS incentives? [...]
Marni Anderson Health IT Specialist, Wisconsin Health Information Technology Extension Center (WHITEC) www.whitec.org Wisconsin launched its Medicaid EHR Incentive Program in August 2011. In the last several months I’ve had the opportunity to work with many small, independent practices and solo providers as they sort through the specifics of the program in our state. Time [...]
There is a new dimension, beyond that which is known to physicians. It is a dimension as vast as any medical clinic and as timeless as your patient records. It is the middle ground between implementation and meaningful use. It is an area which we call The EHR Zone. Coming in February…the debut of The EHR [...]
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