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EHR Incentive Programs: Moving into the Next Stage

CMS.gov

Growing EHR Adoption and Meaningful Use. In January, we passed the 210,000 mark for the total number of providers, including nearly 200,000 eligible professionals, who received a Medicaid or Medicare incentive payment for successfully adopting, implementing, or upgrading or meeting meaningful use of EHR technology.

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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. I thought / hoped we solved this problem in 2012. Quality measures are still proposed without consideration for the data that EHRs have captured. Why was this?

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When sponsored CDS is a crime …

Docnotes

Today, The Department of Justice issued an announcement that was “the first ever criminal action against an EHR vendor.” I wondered how we could prevent pharmaceutical companies from tempting EHR companies to do such things. ” Criminal action. There were certification requirements for clinical decision support.

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Gearing up for Immunizations

Redox

Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades. Immunization administration was a key workflow within the EHR; therefore, sharing that to the registry automatically seems like a no-brainer to reduce the burden on providers. The government thought the same.

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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. There are major established players in the EHR space.

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

mHealth Insight

Back in 2008 at 3GDoctor we started offering the ability for Patients to use their mobiles to provide their own history to Doctors prior to a documented video consult: [link]. “Integration of Sensor, Smartphone, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) Data for Patients and Clinicians. “Digital Therapeutics and Diagnostics.