Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have influenced USA regulations such as HIPAA, and Meaningful Use; as well as regional regulations globally. I am a member of the Wisconsin HIE technical advisory committee, and provide technical advice to the USA national eHealth Exchange. It appears I am going to miss the September HL7 meeting in Baltimore.

Interoperability 40

Interoperability FHIR HIE eHealth 40

CMS.gov

MARCH 4, 2013

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.

EHR 26

EHR Meaningful Use HIE Medicare 26

eHealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There were several other chapter meetings, chapter leader institute, meaningful use meeting and the Nursing Informatics Institute, all well delivered HIMSS events. In June, I had the opportunity to speak at the Northern Ohio HIMSS conference on the Value of Patient Engagement.

mHealth 48

mHealth Meaningful Use Patient Experience Nursing 48

CMS.gov

MARCH 5, 2013

The process can sometimes seem chaotic, even to those of us who are intimately involved in effecting the outcome. CMS Launches eHealth. As we more closely integrate our many efforts using the infrastructure of EHRs, we will be looking at some of the challenges presented in areas such as information exchange and coding.

eHealth 30

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 30

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

CMS has worked with partners and representatives from industry to identify and finalize a set of unified quality measures which meet the requirements of multiple programs, such as the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Physician Value-Based Modifier, in addition to meeting EHR Incentive Programs requirements.

eHealth 32

eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. This is likely the paragraph that will get me in the most trouble.

Primary Care 52

Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52