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SPM’s comments on important proposed CMS interoperability rules

Society for Participatory Medicine

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The regulations do this by altering how a hospital gets paid based on how well their data moves out of their computers.

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The The Five Biggest Areas of Opportunity for Digital Health

The Digital Health Corner

According to most recent statistics from the Office of the National Coordinator, use of EHRs has increased from 20% in 2004 to 87% in 2015. Increasing healthcare consolidation of hospitals has exacerbated the problem of lack of interoperability. EHRs were designed as documentation centers for billing and regulatory purposes.

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Three Big Questions for Stage 3 & Patient Engagement

Chilmark Research

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. The final rule is expected to drop sometime in Q1-Q2 of 2015 – just one year away.

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What is MHD beyond XDS-on-FHIR?

Healthcare Exchange Standards

Mobile Access to Health Documents (MHD) - Revised 2015-03-12 I am not going to go into deep details, but take the perspective here that the reader is a FHIR expert, and wants to understand this MHD profile. Security and Privacy As with any Interoperability API dealing with Healthcare information, Security and Privacy are important.

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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. The program(s) – often described as the “Meaningful Use Incentive Programs” – or “MU,” provided incentive dollars for medical providers who made meaningful use of certified EHR technology. Too many. .