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Healthcare Innovation Funding – Regulations and Disrupting Traditional Models

Healthcare IT Today

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S.

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API mania misses the point on healthcare interoperability

Import Immunity

My plan was to just go quietly into the night, but looking through the recently-released Meaningful Use 3 requirements convinced me that I really ought to put this out there. When I first testified at a FACA meeting in 2009 (six years ago!) — I talked about the “Connectathon” problem. The Connectathon Problem.

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HIStalk Interviews Helen Waters, EVP, Meditech

HIStalk Interviews

Expanse for us represents the development over several years of an EHR that we designed for the post-Meaningful Use era. We had recognized the need for an ambulatory system that would be built and driven by us in an integrated fashion. We’ve built a robust interoperability strategy. The IPad came out in 2010.

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What Duplicate Patient Notes Reveal About Health Care and Its Records

Healthcare IT Today

Most hospitals are not set up share their records; interoperability is still limited. Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information. Follow the money.

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Welcome Back Kotter: New York’s next 1115 Waiver

Docnotes

Exhibit 2: SDHN Structural and Funding Diagram. Social Care Data Interoperability Exchange. We’ve seen this movie before: in 2009, the HITECH Act, part of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, funded incentive money for medical providers and hospitals to invest in information technology.