Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine has agreed to pay $45 million to the federal government to settle a whistleblower suit alleging that the vendor engaged in varied kickback schemes as well as causing its provider customers to submit false claims. The lawsuit was filed in 2017 by law firms Phillips and Cohen LLP and Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC.

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Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

If I were to map out the phases of EMR, it would look like this: EMR Adoption. Rapid EMR adoption and implementation fueled by the generous government incentive program (Meaningful Use) EMR Consolidation.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For the 26th episode of the Healthcare IT Podcast, and we’re taking a look back at the last decade of Health IT. Hard to believe that it’s almost 2020, but as we enter the new decade join us as we look back. Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2020

Practice Fusion, a San Francisco-based EHR vendor with a controversy-rich history, has agreed to pay $145 million to settle allegations that it engaged in a kickback scheme designed to increase opioid prescriptions and issues with their meaningful use EHR certification. This had been […].

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 26, 2023

We’ve only seen a few times where something has dramatically changed the EHR product roadmap. The first time this happened was when the HITECH act and associated $36 billion of stimulus money was included to stimulate adoption of EHR software. In order to get access to that stimulus money, you had to use a certified EHR.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

They are no longer paper pushers (literally) and are now stewards of healthcare data. Healthcare IT Today sat down with Jennifer Mueller, AHIMA President and the Vice President & Privacy Officer at the Wisconsin Hospital Association Information Center ( WHAIC ) to the explore the past, present, and bright future of HIM professionals.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

While the EHR Association has long supported the goals of the proposed rule, called Health Data, Technology, and Interoperability: Certification Program Updates, Algorithm Transparency, and Information Sharing Proposed Rule (HTI-1), we have a number of real concerns about the impact it would have on the industry if finalized as proposed.

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

EHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25 In its complaint, the US Justice Department claimed that athenahealth violated the False Claims Act and Anti-Kickback Statute by running questionable marketing programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 29, 2019

In retrospect, we probably should have predicted that once Meaningful Use was put into place, some physicians would be better situated than others to take advantage of the program.

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Healthcare IT Today

AUGUST 20, 2019

It seems like an eternity that we’ve been writing about government regulations like Meaningful Use, HITECH, MIPS, MACRA, and a bunch of other abbreviations that many would like to forget, but can’t because they’re still a part of many organizations’ daily lives.

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Meaningful HIT News

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

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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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. Google Glass startup expecting third healthcare client in less than 6 months (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. Related posts: Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition.

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The following is a guest article by John D’Amore, President and Chief Strategy Officer, Diameter Health. Almost every article on the 10 years since the passage of the HITECH Act mentions the over $35 billion spent to incentivize the implementation of electronic health records. Most go on to conclude either “We failed!”

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This seems to me a reasonable way to identify duplicates, although one can question what happens when an EHR automatically generates text. Several respondents say that government regulations from the Meaningful Use era, starting in 2009, make it hard to comply without loading each note down with duplicate information.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

The healthcare staffing crisis is also putting severe margin pressure on organizations. We are passionate and dedicated to working with healthcare partners, RCM leaders and clinicians to put our extensive pool of primary-sourced data to meaningful use. Inovalon is a proud sponsor of Healthcare Scene. Good timing.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 14, 2014

As I alluded to earlier, I was leaving the press room one afternoon at HIMSS14, and there I see former national health IT coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari hanging around Gregg Masters and Dr. Pat Salber of Health Innovation Media.

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