Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Digital Health Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

The FDA had a digital health banner day on December 7, announcing one final guidance and two draft guidance documents (with a 60-day comment period). FDA has done a very good job of moving the ball forward, though there is certainly room for improvement, and there is opportunity for comment on two of the three guidance documents announced.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. If you can adopt and change your practice and how you document and how you order, we’ll meet you halfway and try to make the process as easy as we possibly can. Bold Statements. Our biggest challenge was getting CPOE up and running.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

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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Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

EHRs Look Inward. EHR vendors are at last developing moderate to advanced functionality with their portals (refills, secure communication, education, scheduling), with improved UX/UI that is starting to conform to consumer tech standards. HIEs Look Backward.

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Since the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed in 2009, healthcare has digitized rapidly, with electronic health records (EHRs) now ubiquitous across medical practices – except for within behavioral health. Why EHRs Haven’t Caught On in Behavioral Health.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 27, 2012

The transport identified in Meaningful Use 2 as (b) is NOT a transport, it is a functional specification for a service that converts Direct to/from XDR. It isn't a specification that EHR technology would implement. So there is no need to use such specification pointing gymnastics. It is a service specification.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

I am however happy to use IHE-ATNA as the marketing tag. This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This goes up another layer and explains how one would apply the very same standards above to an EHR.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

OCR has done a bang-up job elucidating the regs through a series of sub-regulatory guidance documents , and I would urge both regulators and the regulated community to start with the regs and those guidance documents and see whether any changes are really needed, or whether the problem is with communication and education.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The American Medical Informatics Association began a project to reduce patient documentation to 25% of its current volume by 2025. This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Bloat in patient notes has been alarming doctors for some time.

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Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

These historic events need to have the full context of them, which is what a Document model provides. The good news is that FHIR has a Document model, and the FHIR Document model has a directly convertible data model A FHIR Document travels an HIE easily CDA will fade, but never disappear. Today the GP drives everything.

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HIStalk Interviews

JUNE 4, 2018

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. Very different.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

I’ve cut/pasted selected sentences from the DOH document to make it easy to follow here – but (of course) the full document has more detail/explanation. So with this too many/too few framework – let’s parse the Kotter Edition and see how we are doing. HERO, therefore, opens the door to the same challenges we had with DSRIP.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

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.

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