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ONC’s HTI-1 Places Undue Burdens on Healthcare Providers, Health IT Developers

Healthcare IT Today

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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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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Apple Health app will link to your medical records (thanks to FHIR)

Medicine and Technology

Apple recently announced that its mobile Health app will link to electronic health record (EHR) systems. This will allow patients/consumers access to their personal health record (PHR). Empowering patients with their own health information is one of the first steps to fixing health care in this country.

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Rural Health IT Workforce Program

Medicine and Technology

Want to improve health care in rural communities? Be a part of the Rural Health IT Workforce Program. Apply at Grants.gov by April 15.

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All my HIMSS coverage in one place

Meaningful HIT News

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo: True EHR interoperability – and a national HIE – is possible by 2017 (Feb. DeSalvo meets and greets – briefly – while Tavenner keeps her distance at HIMSS (March 3). Related posts: Podcast: HIMSS CEO Steve Lieber, 2014 edition.

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Short Takes at #HIMSS18 – Harlow On Healthcare

Health Blawg

We spoke a bit about the TEFCA — the interoperability framework proposed by ONC under the 21st Century Cures Act — which is intended to create a framework of trust that will ensure that healthcare records can be transferred and used in creation of longitudinal records for everyone.

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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.” The core of the criminal action was something inevitable: the tension between better health and better profit. ” Criminal action.