Weekly Broadcast on Meaningful Use and Health IT. MU Live! is a 30 minute internet talk radio show hosted by HITECH Answers. Register below to receive notification on how to participate and listen in. May 22, 2 pm Eastern: This week we welcome Gregg Masters, CEO of XanateMedia.com and founder of ACO Watch. Gregg joins us to [...]
Healthcare IT industry and API’s Don Rosenthal LinkedIn Profile My medical data should move with me as easily as my music or photo library…Part II There are currently over 500,000 apps for the iPhone. Apple has written only a handful of those. How many would there be if Apple had to write a custom interface [...]
Guide to HIPAA Privacy and Security of Health Information ONC’s Office of the Chief Privacy Officer (OCPO) has released a new guide for providers and their staff to help understand HIPAA privacy and security when it comes to electronic health records (EHRs) and meaningful use. “Guide to Privacy and Security of Health Information” is a [...]
e-Prescribing Program Penalties begin January 1, 2013 In 2008, the Medicare Improvements for Patients and Providers Act (MIPPA) established a five-year incentive program that began in 2009, to promote the adoption and use of electronic transmission of prescriptions (e-Prescribing). The Act also outlined a penalty phase from 2012 to 2014 for those who do not [...]
Comment Period Ends for HHS Proposed Rule Comment period for the HHS proposed rule published on 4/17/12 come to an end today. The proposal among several other things, proposes to change the compliance date for the International Classification of Diseases, 10th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-10-CM) for diagnosis coding, including the Official ICD-10-CM Guidelines for Coding [...]
It’s Never Too Late: Process Improvements After EHR Implementation Michael Crosnick, Blog: MikeOnHealthcare.com LinkedIn Profile or Twitter: @MichaelCrosnick It has become widely accepted that electronic health record systems have the capacity to improve quality in the healthcare industry by reducing or eliminating errors. For this to be successful requires clinicians and staff become proficient and effective users [...]
Join a NeHC Workgroup The National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC) defines itself as a public-private partnership that enables secure and interoperable nationwide health information exchange to advance health and improve health care. NeHC was established through a grant from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to build on the accomplishments of the [...]
Health Information Exchange (HIE) as a Discipline Consultant/Founder at HealthTechture Linkedin Profile If we’re going to cement health information exchange as a way of conducting business in the delivery of health care to patients, we need to further define Health Information Exchange (HIE) as a discipline that applies to the practice of exchanging health information [...]
Public Comment Period on Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN) The Public Health Service Act Section 3001(c)(8) requires the National Coordinator to “establish a governance mechanism for the nationwide health information network.” The nationwide health information network is defined as a set of standards, services, and policies that enable secure health information exchange over the Internet. [...]
HIT Policy Committee needs new Patient Advocate Established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA), the Health IT Policy Committee is one of three that makes recommendations to the ONC on standards, implementation specifications, and certifications criteria. It has been instrumental in the framework of defining meaningful use of certified technology. The HIT [...]
Super Moon Impacts Health Data Protection . . . well, maybe. David Finn, Health IT Officer at Symantec LinkedIn Profile I do a lot of talking about Health IT. And mostly about security, privacy and compliance. I get to talk to providers, to other technology and software vendors – – many that service the healthcare industry, [...]
This week’s posts on ONC Health IT Dashboard, HIPAA Security Guidance and more… CMS EHR Incentive Program Report It has been one year since the first Medicare EHR incentive payments were issued. The following EHR Incentive program data comes from the CMS March program status report. Over 255,700 [...]…» … National Nurses Week, Preview of SIIM Meeting, [...]
CMS EHR Incentive Program Status Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of May 11th It has been one year since the first Medicare EHR incentive payments were issued. The following EHR Incentive program data comes from the CMS March program status report. Over 255,700 [...]
National Nurses Week, Preview of HIIM Conference and Health IT News Round UP Dr. Nick van Terheyden Voice of the Doctor #VoiceoftheDr LinkedIn Profile, Twitter: @drnic1 This month on Voice of the Doctor: National Nurses Week, News Round Up and a Preview of SIIM Meeting. Tune in Friday’s at 2:30 Eastern. For show information visit Voice of [...]
Health IT Dashboard Tool Summarizes Information The ONC has launched its newest website that presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs, and research activities related to health IT. The Health IT Dashboard currently provides summary information about all ONC HITECH grant programs, and detailed data from [...]
Delivering Interoperability in Healthcare Don Rosenthal LinkedIn Profile My medical data should move with me as easily as my music or photo library… I made this statement in a recent TweetChat on healthcare information technology. It spread like wildfire, retweet after retweet, around the world, reaching as far as Sweden, Japan, and Mumbai. Clearly, it [...]
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