Tag: EHRs
HHS Sets Goal of 50% of Physicians Using EHRs by Year End
2013 Agenda to Focus on Improving Care through Health IT Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., announced HHS’s plan to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) and build a seamless and secure flow of information essential to transforming the [...]
CMS Launches EHR Incentive Participation Timeline Tool
New EHR Incentive Resource and other CMS Updates The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the Federal agency under the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) which administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program. The CMS EHR Incentive programs are currently open programs for eligible professionals and hospitals to [...]
AMIA Paper Looks to Reduce EHR-Related Medical Errors
AMIA Position Paper Makes 10 Recommendations for Improving EHR Usability The American Medical Informatics Association (AMIA) is a non-profit membership and scientific association providing leadership in the transformation of healthcare through informatics. The organization has just issued a paper calling for the reduction of EHR-related medical errors by improving usability. Enhancing patient safety and quality of [...]
CHIME Raises Concerns Over CQM Reporting Harmonization
CHIME Says Technology, Workflow Burdens Impacting Reporting The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving the needs of CIOs and other senior executive healthcare leaders. The organization has 1,500 members. On Monday, CHIME sent a letter to Marilyn Tavenner, Acting Administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), voicing [...]
Researches Identify Ways to Improve Quality of Care from EHRs
New Study Shows Ways Quality of Care Measures can be Improved for EHRs Health care providers and hospitals are being offered up to $27 billion in federal financial incentives to use electronic health records (EHRs) in ways that demonstrably improve the quality of care. The incentives are based, in part, on the ability to electronically [...]
EHR Adoption by Family Physicians Likely To surpass 80% in 2013
EHR Adoption Accelerating Among Family Physicians The Annals of Family Medicine is a non-profit, peer-reviewed research journal with a mission to advance the improvement of healthcare delivery among primary care physicians. Its publication is a collaborative effort among seven leading medical association that includes the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), American Board of Family Medicine (ABFM) and [...]
National Coordinator Looks to Vendors for Improving Patient Safety
HHS Stops Short Of Calling For Safety Regulations By Jay Hancock Kaiser Health News The Obama administration last Friday urged cooperation between software companies and caregivers to prevent patient harm caused by faulty electronic records. But it stopped short of calling for regulation or a federal requirement to report computer mistakes that pose a risk to patients. [...]
Electronic Health Records and Natural Disasters
Electronic Health Records – Lessons Learned from Sandy In the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy that hit the east coast this past October, what have we learned about our electronic health records and health IT? We can find many that are sharing their experiences and just what they have learned. But in the end it [...]
Electronic Health Records vs. Patient Privacy: Who Will Win?
Patient privacy being challenged as patient records are digitized by Rick Kam, ID Experts Does your dermatologist need access to your reproductive health history? Can you limit access to the psychiatric notes in your chart once they have been entered into your provider’s new electronic health record (EHR) system? It sounds absurd, but the adoption [...]
Health IT and EHRs Mean Better Healthcare
Study Says: Positive Correlation Between EHRs and Quality of Healthcare If you’re looking for a way to improve the quality of care that you provide to your patients, all you may simply need to do is adopt electronic health records (EHRs) if you haven’t done so already. That’s because according to a new study, physicians who [...]
Providers working towards HIE and interoperability face the challenge of bringing connectivity to scale to take advantage of the data being generated by EHR adoption. This paper seeks to demonstrate that connectivity at scale can be accomplished. 
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