Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

These regulations are a big deal for participatory medicine – they’re the successor to the Meaningful Use rules that have governed patient access to their chart, among other things. The focus is specifically on patient access to the personal health information sections.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 30, 2017

The “Meaningful HIT News” name itself has become dated, given that the Meaningful Use program from which this blog takes its name has evolved and kind of fallen out of favor. The Meaningful Use program remains unchanged for hospitals.

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The Digital Health Corner

JUNE 14, 2017

There are hospitals within the same healthcare system in many places with disparate EHRs which do not talk to each other or exchange information. Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been woefully underfunded and have fallen short of their vision. Sixty percent said social media improves the care they deliver.”

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Medicine and Technology

JANUARY 30, 2018

Tethered PHRs became available when patient portals were launched by hospitals, health systems, and clinics to meet the CMS Meaningful Use requirements. They're doing to start by fixing health care for their own employees, but I'm sure other large organizations will watch them closely and adopt key lessons from their successes.

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Xealth

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

So, how can health systems accomplish this goal? 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. Current State of Patient Engagement Programs.

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Healthcare IT Today

JULY 6, 2022

healthcare providers’ initiative or, should we say, their need to comply with Meaningful Use. patients to improve their engagement and independent health management. In fact, the wave of patient portal deployment wasn’t caused by patients’ interest. In fact, it was. Stage 2 requirements. Patient portals. It’s patient education.

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Health System CIO

JUNE 2, 2015

The Department of Mental Health for the state, the mental health clinic in the county, we’re also hosting for them. We’ve set parameters regarding information sharing in that area, because it’s a sensitive area. Back in 2010, we established a community health information exchange.

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Medicine and Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Areas of discussion will include: Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange, Telehealth, Accountable Care, mHealth, Cloud Computing, and more. iHT2 Health IT Summit in New York City, NY Sept 17-18, 2013 Learn more here: [link].

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Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

A Sponsored Post by Azalea Health. 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.

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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.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

He became disillusioned with the “system” when the HITECH Act mandated meaningful use of certified EHRs and he saw computer-aided efficiencies supplanted by check-the-box operations that made his work less efficient and was unrelated to promoting good clinical care.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

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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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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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Chilmark Research

APRIL 3, 2013

Stage 2 meaningful use is requiring a deeper level of patient access to their records via view, download and transmit requirements and there is even a requirement for some email messaging between provider and patient. For starters at least, this includes: Allscripts, athenahealth, Cerner, Greenway, and McKesson’s RelayHealth division.

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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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Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have worked closely with product development teams working on small medical devices, big medical devices, health information systems, and cloud workflows combining all. I have influenced USA regulations such as HIPAA, and Meaningful Use; as well as regional regulations globally.

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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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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

He became disillusioned with the “system” when the HITECH Act mandated meaningful use of certified EHRs and he saw computer-aided efficiencies supplanted by check-the-box operations that made his work less efficient and was unrelated to promoting good clinical care.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

He became disillusioned with the “system” when the HITECH Act mandated meaningful use of certified EHRs and he saw computer-aided efficiencies supplanted by check-the-box operations that made his work less efficient and was unrelated to promoting good clinical care.

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Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

He became disillusioned with the “system” when the HITECH Act mandated meaningful use of certified EHRs and he saw computer-aided efficiencies supplanted by check-the-box operations that made his work less efficient and was unrelated to promoting good clinical care.

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Primary Care EHR Healthcare Innovation Meaningful Use 60

Health Blawg

DECEMBER 25, 2017

He became disillusioned with the “system” when the HITECH Act mandated meaningful use of certified EHRs and he saw computer-aided efficiencies supplanted by check-the-box operations that made his work less efficient and was unrelated to promoting good clinical care.

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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. NantHealth launches Clinical Operating System – biggest of big data startups – with $1B (Feb. Body + biology + behavior: Intel exec explains how technology is making N=1 care possible (Feb.

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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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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Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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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HIE Interoperability EHR Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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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HIE Interoperability EHR Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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.

HIE 60

HIE Interoperability EHR Healthcare Innovation 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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.

HIE 60

HIE Interoperability Healthcare Innovation EHR 60

Health Blawg

APRIL 2, 2018

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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Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Had PPS been required to have broader governance – including community-based organizations, health plans, faith-based organizations, Health Information Exchanges, and other nonprofits, we would have had more balanced governance decision-making that would have supported the policy goals of the program more consistently statewide.

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CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

Stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The next step on the path of meaningful adoption of health information technology (HIT) for providers—will launch later this year for hospitals and next year for eligible professionals. By Patrick Conway, MD, MSc.

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Healthcare Exchange Standards

MARCH 16, 2015

For More information User Identity and Authentication Patient Privacy Controls Access Control (including Consent Enforcement) Audit Control Secure Communications Document Sharing Management (Health Information Exchange - HIE) Patient Identity mHealth Meaningful Use The Direct Project

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

Fast forward a few years and I was at ONC, writing the text of what would become the 2014 Edition of the Certification Criteria for health Information Technology. But I wondered about smaller, hungrier companies. Could they resist? I wondered how we could prevent pharmaceutical companies from tempting EHR companies to do such things.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

The HIPAA regulations are, for the most part, an extraordinarily flexible set of standards that have managed to remain relevant and useful even as the nature of the generation, storage, use and transmission of health information has undergone a sea change in the years since they were first promulgated.

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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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Society for Participatory Medicine

JUNE 27, 2018

Not surprisingly, however, the AHA did approve of CMS’s proposal to drop from hospital “Meaningful Use” rules various requirements, such as having at least one patient view, download or transmit their information electronically. What does “health information” mean?

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