Tag: Meaningful Use
HIT Policy Committee Gives Update on EHR Incentive Program Progess
Latest EHR Incentive Program Data Released At last week’s HIT Policy Committee meeting Robert Anthony, deputy director of the Health IT Initiative Group at CMS’ Office of E-Health Standards and Services, reviewed the most current data on CMS EHR Incentive Program participation. The HIT Policy Committee makes recommendations to the National Coordinator for Health IT on a policy [...]
HHS Reports Providers’ Use of Health IT Doubles Since 2012
More than half of America’s doctors have adopted electronic health records HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced that more than half of all doctors and other eligible providers have received Medicare or Medicaid incentive payments for adopting or meaningfully using electronic health records (EHRs). HHS has met and exceeded its goal for 50 percent of [...]
HIMSS EHRA Responds to Meaningful Use ‘Reboot’
Vendor-led Association Comments on GOP Senators Concerns Responses to the release last month of a public letter and white paper from a group of six Republican Senators continue to make news. Last week HIMSS Electronic Health Record Association (EHRA) released public comments addressing the five major concerns outlined in the Senators’ white paper, Reboot: Re-examining the Strategies Needed to [...]
Official Resources for Meaningful Use
Know the Federal Entities Supporting Meaningful Use Chuck Penoza Director, Data Consulting Group (DCG), Detroit. Health IT stakeholders such as EHR Developers, clinicians, researchers, and policy-makers have an overwhelming number of places to find information regarding Meaningful Use in general, and the Objectives and Clinical Quality Measures specifically. Some of these sources are official, but [...]
HL7 Standards for Meaningful Use
HL7 Spring Meeting in Atlanta Health Level Seven (HL7) International is an organization that develops standards for exchanging electronic health information. The organization is ANSI accredited. ANSI is the American National Standards Institute which oversees the creation and use of guidelines that impact most business sectors. ANSI also accredits standards developing organizations. You can find [...]
How to Use EHRs to Create Patient Problem Lists
Patient Problem Lists for Meeting Meaningful Use The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an agency operating under Health and Human Services (HHS) with a primary goal of improving access to health care services for the uninsured, isolated, or medically vulnerable. HRSA provides leadership and financial support to providers in every U.S. state and [...]
EHR Incentive Program Status Report
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 4/1/2013 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – March. Active registrations of those completed totaled [...]
ONC Says ‘Refresh’ Their Health IT Dashboard
Dashboard.HealthIT.Gov Adds 100,000+ New Data Points The ONC’s Health IT Dashboard presents key information and data to enable collaborative monitoring of the impact of federal policies, programs, and research activities related to health IT. Datasets and statistics are updated regularly and includes summary information about all of ONC’s HITECH grant programs. The Health IT Dashboard also includes provider [...]
New Survey Suggests Health IT Improvement Tied to Meaningful Use
Survey also reveals that challenges still remain in fulfilling meaningful use requirements Health IT (HIT) will most likely achieve its most significant improvements over the next 12 months by meeting meaningful use, according to a survey conducted among HIT senior management and executives by Stoltenberg Consulting at last month’s HIMSS13 conference in New Orleans, LA. While a majority of respondents [...]
CMS, ONC Report on Progress of Health IT Adoption
Record Progress to Date on Adoption of Health IT Initiatives CMS and ONC yesterday posted a joint fact sheet breaking down progress made to date in health IT adoption since the passing of the HITECH Act. The fact sheet includes the latest EHR adoption number for eligible professionals and hospitals as well as rates of [...]
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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