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A new focus: How to become empowered patients

Meaningful HIT News

The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. The Meaningful Use program remains unchanged for hospitals.

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Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition

Meaningful HIT News

Lieber reiterated HIMSS’ position that the federal government should extend the attestation period for Meaningful Use Stage 2 by one year. 3:10 New ONC EHR certification proposal and continued questions about Meaningful Use Stage 2. 9:05 Remember “macro objective” of Meaningful Use.

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Parsing eCW’s $155M payment to the government

Docnotes

I was on the developer side of this work from ~2006 – 2010 during the when CCHIT was the only certification path, and then for ONC’s first iteration of certification (2010 – 2011). Indeed, the imperfection of the program was a motivating factor for me to join the government in 2011. ” I disagree.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

However this solution is very hard to use if one is using programming tools more common on lightweight systems such as Mobile. So back in 2011 I wrote the first profile in IHE that was targeting ‘ease of use by lightweight application platforms such as Mobile Health Applications”.

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Advice to the new National Coordinator

Docnotes

Because the 2011 certification criteria and Stage 1 meaningful use requirements were too vague about the data that would be used to measure quality. Why was this?

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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 saw an opportunity in 2011 and 2012 to build a brand new EHR, and in particular, emphasize the provider experience. We started with the ambulatory system. We had a lot of great choices then.

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Review of Mobile Devices and Health by Ida Sim in the NEJM

mHealth Insight

43 A recent development may offer hope: the federal government’s “meaningful use” requirements for EHR certification are calling for greater interoperability through an emerging data-exchange standard called Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR). “Actions for Stakeholders in Mobile Health.