Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

One example from USDA : Turning Point for Meat Inspection In 1905, author Upton Sinclair published the novel titled The Jungle , taking aim at the poor working conditions in a Chicago meatpacking house. The argument is that ONC has no place creating certification criteria for capabilities that aren’t part of “meaningful use.”

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With past initiatives such as Meaningful Use (MU) stage 2 patient portal requirements only requiring 5% of patients to view, download, or transmit their health record , the bar was already set low. For example: wanting to send patient education documents electronically rather than printing.

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Chilmark Research

JANUARY 17, 2014

For many, the delay of Stage 3 of the Meaningful Use program evoked a collective sigh of relief, providing a much-needed extra year to focus on the challenging requirements for patient engagement and interoperability. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components. In a word, no.

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 24, 2013

Technology mandates and quality healthcare have finally come together in a way that we’ve never seen before, and in response, we’ve created specific content around the coming trends in 2013, with a particular focus on meaningful use, mobile health and consumer engagement.” HIMSS 2013 is coming up March 3-7 in New Orleans.

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

Insights Condition (EHR Reporting Program) In addition to a timeframe that is too short to adequately prepare, recruit clients, execute, and submit reports, the proposed Insights measures harken back to the early days of the meaningful use program but without incentives for providers to cooperate.

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Lloyd Price

NOVEMBER 17, 2019

Living Badly Average life expectancy in the US is declining for the first time since 1918, and if you look at the top causes—drug overdoses, suicide, and liver disease—it can be pretty easily argued that we’re dying younger not because we can’t cure disease, but because we’re not living well. Meaningfully use data to improve outcomes 5.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

One recent example is the Clinic’s collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company). Ed highlighted one Clinic example where this was reduced to two or three years, and another where a physician was able to leverage technology to address a problem and apply a solution within about a year. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Health Blawg

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

One recent example is the Clinic’s collaboration with Oscar (the health insurance company). Ed highlighted one Clinic example where this was reduced to two or three years, and another where a physician was able to leverage technology to address a problem and apply a solution within about a year.

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Medicine and Technology

AUGUST 13, 2013

The Summit will feature: A summary of recent and upcoming policy and regulatory changes that are strengthening patients' rights and ability to access their health data electronically, including Meaningful Use and HITECH modifications to HIPAA.

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American Well

JUNE 23, 2016

Meaningful use and payer incentives for adoption (13%). Today’s healthcare ecosystem is filled with references to and examples of telemedicine and telehealth – in some cases, the two terms are used interchangeably. The biggest drivers for expediting adoption of telehealth were: Increase patient volumes and loyalty (29%).

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

To be sure there exist professional and regulatory guidelines for the use of social media for providers, vendors and other healthcare stakeholders. Examples are Treatment Diaries, patientslikeme , and WEGOHEALTH. Social media open platforms in healthcare have proven successful for patients, caregivers and others.

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Docnotes

AUGUST 15, 2016

Because the 2011 certification criteria and Stage 1 meaningful use requirements were too vague about the data that would be used to measure quality. For example, a quality measure might express that patients with “severe congestive heart failure” would be expected to be on a certain class of medications.

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TheraNest

AUGUST 4, 2019

As of 2015, certain mental health practices (mostly psychiatrists’ offices) had to begin meaningfully using EHR to be eligible for incentive payments. For example, can the exact words that patients use be entered? To allow you to accept credit card payments from your clients? How much detail can be recorded on the system?

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

APRIL 26, 2015

But the attacks are not that hard to achieve, and we have seen examples where this kind of attack has happened. For example the attacker could 'spoof' the DNS , thus giving the Client a wrong IP address to connect to; thus causing the Client to connect to their malicious Server.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Examples of things that will still be considered medical devices include: software programs that are intended to process or analyze medical images. patterns acquired from a processor like an electrocardiogram that use analytical functionalities to make treatment recommendations. signals from in vitro diagnostic devices.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

the person or entity who translated the intervention from a clinical guideline into electronic form, for example, Company XYZ or University ABC); funding source of the intervention development ; and release and, if applicable, revision date of the intervention. You can see a list of all of the CDS that Practice Fusion (it seems) here.

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David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

For several years, CIOs focused on implementing EHRs and meeting Meaningful Use requirements, she says. Helping the provider or health system organize and make the best use of its data 3. “It For example, Nigrin’s IT department works closely with Boston Children’s innovation and digital health accelerator program.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example: Adopting the HITECH Act time limits for responses to requests for records — say, two or three days, rather than 30 to 60 days, seems eminently reasonable in our digital age. Thus far, I’ve argued against making changes, bet there are certainly some improvements I’d like to see.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

For example: Adopting the HITECH Act time limits for responses to requests for records — say, two or three days, rather than 30 to 60 days, seems eminently reasonable in our digital age. Thus far, I’ve argued against making changes, bet there are certainly some improvements I’d like to see.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Predictive risk models can extract data regarding social determinants of health, which can be used in conjunction with structured data. For example, Linguamatics can flag a report of a pulmonary nodule overnight and trigger needed follow-up the next day. The Harlow Group LLC. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 30, 2018

Predictive risk models can extract data regarding social determinants of health, which can be used in conjunction with structured data. For example, Linguamatics can flag a report of a pulmonary nodule overnight and trigger needed follow-up the next day. The Harlow Group LLC. Health Care Law and Consulting.

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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. I made the Karen's Cross observation about the NPRM , but I seemed to have failed to make it clear. It is a service specification. It is NOT a transport specification.

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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. Perhaps more importantly, Meaningful Use spurred adoption on the provider side, requiring that providers use certified EHRs to receive Medicare and Medicaid funds. It also converged on HL7 2.5.1

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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Yet regional governments – county departments of health for example – lack the funding, staffing, and experience managing matters that the HERO is imagined to curate. For example, one MCO might invest in food, and another in housing. More on what I think will work North of Yonkers after we consider the SDHN….

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” He also partners with journalists (like the folks at ProPublica , for example) — to get data out to the public in a useful manner.

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Health Blawg

MARCH 5, 2018

Fred’s shorthand definition: “Using FOIA requests and other sorts of collaborations to get covered-over data out of the realm of the useless and into the realm of the useful.” He also partners with journalists (like the folks at ProPublica , for example) — to get data out to the public in a useful manner.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

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. Nick Hayes also suggests using analytics to check for and remove duplication. Follow the money. A starting point for dealing with deduplication.

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LinkousThink

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Our knowledge, the practice, and the tools used in healthcare constantly evolve and new lessons are being learned. For example, the history of medicine, from the use of stethoscopes to the deployment of video services has proven that we can no longer equate mere physical proximity to the patient with higher quality health care.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

For example, eligible professionals may submit through a data-submission vendor or submit reports generated from their certified EHR technology directly to CMS. Choosing the submission method most suited to their unique needs.

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Redox

APRIL 13, 2023

And I’ll give you some examples. We’re backed by a private equity firm right now, and what we’re doing is we’re acquiring practices that were really mom-and-pop practices, and what we’re trying to do is modernize care.

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mHealth Insight

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

An obvious example of how such limited thinking comprises your ability to see the opportunity is demonstrated by how Dr Sim has presented the concept that mHealth is somehow limited by adoption of smartphones. That said, integration with the electronic health record (EHR) is currently extremely challenging and costly.

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