Healthcare IT Today

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

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

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Join us as we discuss the biggest topics of the last decade and also the hot topics for 2019. Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. Here's a summary of some of the top topics we discuss: Last Decade. Cloud Acceptance. Cybersecurity Explosion. Healthcare Consolidation. Physician Burnout. * Big Tech Entering Healthcare.

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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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Health System CIO

JUNE 17, 2015

In this interview, she talks about how Cook Children’s is partnering with vendors to make EHR systems more pediatric-friendly, what they’ve done to dramatically increase portal usage, and the groundbreaking work her team is doing with medical homes. We see a good opportunity to follow up with kids for specific disease states at home.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 14, 2023

At a recent EHR user conference, I was talking with their interoperability expert and he acknowledged that the government support for interoperability pushes that standard forward in a powerful way. Maybe we should call it meaningful data sharing? (Is Is that too soon or are we recovered from the scars of meaningful use?)

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 2, 2023

government introduced the meaningful use program as part of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in 2009, LTPAC organizations – notably nursing homes – and the vulnerable patients they serve have been left behind. Since the U.S. Since the U.S.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

He reminds us that we need to keep our work in perspective: Our children and grandchildren will look back at it and think it’s pretty primitive. by Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Good stuff — did Ed have perspective on who wins out when.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

He reminds us that we need to keep our work in perspective: Our children and grandchildren will look back at it and think it’s pretty primitive. by Ed Marx, Cleveland Clinic CIO – Harlow on Healthcare - HITECH Answers: Meaningful Use, EHR, HIPAA News Good stuff — did Ed have perspective on who wins out when.

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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.” Mature companies with strong clinical leadership didn’t succumb to these temptations. I wondered how we could prevent pharmaceutical companies from tempting EHR companies to do such things.

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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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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

Besides focusing on EHR optimization, organizations see automation as a way to become more efficient and cut costs, Chou adds. Chan School of Public Health’s Leadership Strategies for Information Technology in Health Care program, works with IT leaders who want to reach beyond the traditional role in their organizations.

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Chilmark Research

OCTOBER 1, 2014

A related issue emerging on the delivery system side is the backlog of dashboard style tools, which were part of nearly every clinically oriented demo or slidedeck we saw, from EHR to analytics vendors, not to mention the mushrooming number of care coordination plays out there. EHR Vendors: Mixed Reviews.

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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 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 Exchange Standards

DECEMBER 30, 2017

Up to now we have focused on getting EHR to publish or simply make available the data they have. Second, most patients are not feeling well, so it is hard to take leadership. It is just way too hard to get right. The future will be more about automating the consumption. This first step is critical to Interoperability.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 30, 2022

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. I think it’s worth just noting too the fear of losing your job…it’s important to make the distinction and good communication at the leadership level.

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