Meaningful Use and Vital Signs Sometimes things are not what they seem. What can appear simple can become complex upon closer examination. Lately I’ve been getting lots of good questions about one of the most cut and dried of meaningful use objectives, Vital Signs. The documentation of vital signs is a required core measure for [...]
Deadline Approaches to Register and Attest to Meaningful Use The word ‘deadline’ is aptly constructed. It usually means the death of an opportunity. This is especially true in the world of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs. For both Eligible Hospitals and Critical Access Hospitals one of these is fast approaching. November 30, 2011 is the [...]
Doubtful Meaningful Use Reporting It was just a matter of time before it was said out loud. The ability of ONC-ATCB certified EHRs to accurately generate meaningful use data is being brought into question. A complete EHR must be able to “electronically record the numerator and denominator and generate a report including the numerator, denominator, [...]
Clock is ticking on EHR Incentives There is one intriguing question about EHR adoption that everyone from vendors to officials at CMS has been asking. When will providers start actually buying EHRs? The early adopters got on board years ago but when will the ‘middle class’ bite the bullet? The clock is ticking on the [...]
Question Two from Specialists about Meaningful Use Last week we took a look a the most common question from Specialists about meaningful use. This week we hope to put the final nail in the coffin of the second most common question I have received from specialists about meaningful use. “If I can exclude Meaningful Use [...]
Number One Question from Specialists about Meaningful Use There are two questions from Eligible Professional specialists about the CMS EHR Incentives that I’m asked over and over again. Today, let’s answer one of them and hopefully put it to rest. ”Do specialists have to meet all of the required Core Set Meaningful Use objectives? We don’t [...]
Cart Before the Horse? Register after achieving Meaningful use? We all know (hopefully) that the ABCs of the CMS EHR Incentive Program are: Registration – Meaningful Use of Certified EHR Technology – Attestation. After attestation you hope to get a check so you can go buy your second iPad and a few other toys. Maybe take [...]
Could Apple Develop an EHR? I wasn’t going to write a post on Steve Jobs because it seems everything has been said. But here I go anyway. I was just talking on the phone with a friend and asked him his reaction to the passing of Steve Jobs. Without hesitation he said there has been [...]
Progress of HIEs Last week I attended the annual conference of the North Carolina Healthcare Information & Communications Alliance, Inc. (NCHICA) in Asheville, NC. NCHICA is a “nonprofit consortium of over 240 organizations representing the many sectors of the healthcare industry” with a mission to assist “in accelerating the transformation of the U.S. healthcare system through the [...]
How Do We Report Meaningful Use? What would the Dali Lama do? In the past week I have run across numerous examples of confusion and misinformation about the CMS EHR Incentive Programs. Last week this question was received: “To whom and how do we report our meaningful use?” The questioner obviously needs quite a bit [...]
StartUp Health Less Can Be More I spent last week in San Francisco attending the DC toVC HIT Startup Showcase and the StartUp Health Roundtable. I made a pilgrimage to the Computer History Museum and humbly paid my respects to the first Pong machine. It had a wooden case and when it was placed in [...]
CMS EHR Incentives – Defining ‘Seen by and EP’ Most of the questions I receive about the CMS EHR Incentive Programs fall into fairly predictable categories. Who is eligible? What is the timeline? How do I calculate Medicaid percentage thresholds? Lots of questions about the basic issues related to certified EHR technology and meaningful use. [...]
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