Healthcare IT Today

JULY 17, 2019

Just as the Meaningful Use (MU) EHR Incentive program brought potential audits to providers, so it will be with the MIPS program. Administration Ambulatory C-Suite Leadership EMR-EHR Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System Regulations EMR Advocate Guidehouse Jim Tate meaningful use Meaningful Use Audit Medicaid Medicare MIPS MIPS Audit MIPS Consulting MIPS ScoreThe following is a guest blog post by Jim Tate, Founder of EMR Advocate & MIPS Consulting.

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 16, 2022

Meaningful use” punctuated nearly every conference a decade ago in the health tech space. Similar in spirit to the early days of Meaningful […]. The following is a guest article by Bryan Schnepf, Vice President of Marketing at Caregility.

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 25, 2018

VA: Jackson in or out? Opioids bills chug along

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Mobi Health News

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

DrChrono has announced that its EHR, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, has attained ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3. The company believes it is the first to obtain that certification for a mobile-based product

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Mobi Health News

APRIL 25, 2018

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to their electronic health records on the day they leave the hospital

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Morning eHealth

MAY 30, 2018

athenahealth’s Jonathan Bush admits to assault of ex-wife — Puerto Rico’s hurricane death toll larger than originally tallied

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 10, 2022

I was recently able to attend a press briefing with LeanTaaS and a couple CIO and Chief Transformation officers.

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FierceHealthIT

AUGUST 8, 2018

A disclosure buried in Community Health Systems' latest financial filing says the company has received a civil investigative demand "relating to the Company’s adoption of electronic health records technology and the meaningful use program

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FierceHealthIT

JUNE 6, 2019

Coffey Health System will repay $250,000 of the $2.2 million it received in incentive payments as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice over alleged False Claims Act violations

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hea!thcare innovation - Clinical IT

JUNE 10, 2019

The amount paid is a portion of the $2.2 million in federal incentives that Coffey Health System received in 2012 and 2013

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These financial arrangements caused healthcare providers to submit false reimbursement claims for pathology services, along with false claims for Meaningful Use incentives arising from the use of ModMed’s technology.

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Healthcare IT Today

MARCH 4, 2022

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Healthcare IT Today

MAY 3, 2021

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Healthcare IT Today

JANUARY 29, 2021

Administration EMR-EHR Health IT Company Healthcare IT IT athenaClinicals athenahealth Community Health Systems DoJ Fines DOJ Settlements EHR Kickbacks False Claims Act meaningful use Practice Fusion US Department of JusticeEHR developer athenahealth has agreed to pay $18.25

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

What do you know about Stage 2 Meaningful Use around Transitions of Care? From the ONC: Reflecting our continued commitment to expand the Stage 2 / 2014 Edition meaningful use education portfolio beyond webinars and speaking events, today ONC is launching a a brand new self-paced education module on the "transitions of care" interoperability criteria. CMS education meaningful use ONC

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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 15, 2021

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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.

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Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 6, 2018

The agency also plans to overhaul the Meaningful Use program to place more emphasis on interoperability Seema Verma announced two new initiatives from CMS aimed at giving patients access to their health data by opening up claims data to app developers.

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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. Ambulatory Clinical EMR-EHR Healthcare IT IT Role Health IT Digital Divide MACRA meaningful use Medicare MIPS Physician MU Attestation SK&A

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Electronic Health Reporter

MAY 17, 2018

Federal healthcare organizations, such as CMS, have spent billions of dollars over the years trying to bridge the gap between medical data and quality patient care with interoperability requirements and data integration, the mesh used to try and bridge the gap. Editorial EHRs Inpatient Prospective Payment System interoperability Long-Term Care Hospital Prospective Payment System meaningful use Thanh Tran Zoeticx

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Ambulatory Healthcare IT Hospital - Health System IT LTPAC Regulations ACA Bill Kotraba BJ Boyle Chris Gervais Health IT Leadership Health IT Year-in-Review Luke Bonney meaningful use Rasu Shrestha

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Healthcare IT Today

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Government Regulations – Meaningful Use. 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.

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Culture Interviews Leadership/Staff Management Meaningful Use Mentoring Patient Engagement Telemedicine Albert Oriol Rady Children's HospitalFor Albert Oriol, effective leadership comes down to four basic steps: setting the right vision, connecting the dots, listening to the team, and removing any obstacles in the way.

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Morning eHealth

JUNE 30, 2015

SCOTUS hears health data sharing case

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FierceHealthIT

MARCH 7, 2018

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says the flu season has peaked; the Joint Commission releases its 2017 sentinel event data; plus more healthcare news from around the web

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Health System CIO

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

In this interview, Rawlings provides her honest take on Meaningful Use — and why it’s much more challenging for community hospitals, and the strategy she employs when introducing change. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. So many of the patients who would use this technology are younger and they’re not chronic patients. Meaningful Use works great if you’re working in a big city with a bunch of organizations in it.

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Health System CIO

JUNE 17, 2015

LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. So we’re really excited about what telehealth can bring to that population, and hopefully that will begin to allow more and more use of that technology. We saw Meaningful Use as something we were already striving for before the regulations came out, so for us it’s more about being prepared, and if there are penalties that begin with the Medicaid population, then we will be prepared for that.

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Health System CIO

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

In this interview, he talks about the multi-year Phoenix Project at U of C, what it’s like to be work in a translational research environment; and where his team stands with Meaningful Use. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. What I mean by that is, as things happen and we have that data on the bus, it allows us to repurpose it and use it in a real-time way.

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Health System CIO

JUNE 2, 2015

LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. Gamble: At this point, you’re exchanging information with both the employed and affiliated practices, and NextGen is primarily being used among the employed physician practices? About 25 percent of the providers using the NextGen platform are employed. So we have quite a few independent physicians, one very large practice, and a lot of small practices in the community using it.

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FierceHealthIT

APRIL 24, 2018

The Trump administration maintained its focus on reduced reporting burdens and greater price transparency as part of its annual Medicare payment proposal. Hospitals were generally supportive of the proposal, but are pushing back on mandatory technology upgrades

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Health System CIO

APRIL 9, 2013

Claire’s journey from best-of-breed to an integrated system, the organization’s three-pronged approach to Meaningful Use, the ACO path it is pursuing with Bon Secours Health System, and its involvement in the Northern Kentucky RHIO and the Kentucky HIE. LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. ACOs HIE Meaningful Use Telemedicine Meditech Podcast Randy McCleese St.

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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. The language used thus far raises much speculation about what exactly this inclusion will mean when it hits the front lines. Each of these use cases brings with it a unique set of programmatic and technical components.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

LISTEN NOW USING THE PLAYER BELOW OR CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR iTUNES PODCAST FEED. A lot of larger organizations have a team of people that are dedicated just to focus on Meaningful Use. Meaningful Use Stage 2 Quality Measures Telemedicine Workflow/Usability Albemarle Health Epic Meditech Podcast Stephen ClarkCPOE roadblocks — “The technology gets in the way.” “At-the-elbow

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Morning eHealth

APRIL 29, 2019

CMS audit turns up more inappropriate meaningful use payments — Early lessons on patient generated health data

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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. 17:20 Progress on Meaningful Use so far.

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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. Interoperability Showcase uses car crash to show how connected data really can improve patient care (March 5). The last of my 10 MedCity News stories from HIMSS14 has been posted. It’s a nice mix of news, features, analysis and commentary. Here are links to all of them, in chronological order.

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Medicine and Technology

MARCH 3, 2013

Let me highlight a few key points and reflections I jotted down as I sat through several presentations about Meaningful Use (MU) and the future of clinical informatics: Health IT is about improving clinical workflow efficiency and patient care. Or, are we putting too much emphasis on achieving Meaningful Use? We've seen many physicians and hospitals achieve Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 1. I am in New Orleans attending the 2013 HIMSS conference.

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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 14, 2014

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