Healthcare IT Today

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Because providers can become accustomed to the workarounds required when using separate systems across their locations, they are often reluctant to replace them. However, they’ve inadvertently made systems that function but have not created systems to meet their organization’s needs.

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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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Healthcare IT Today

JUNE 7, 2023

In the comments that we will submit to ONC on HTI-1, we’ll also be encouraging ONC and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to work more closely together to address the misalignments that frequently occur between when ONC tells software developers to deploy new certified versions and when CMS requires providers to be using them.

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Health IT EHR Interoperability Health Information 93

Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

" The establishment of an online health community around a specific health issue (weight loss, for example), scaled up by deploying custom apps, incorporating gamification and "nudging" for motivation and combining "digital sidewalks" for virtual community meetings, are one way forward.

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Meaningful Use Public Health Connected Health Patient Experience 143

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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Meaningful HIT News

MARCH 12, 2014

Tavenner: 2014 is your last chance for a hardship exemption for Meaningful Use 2 (Feb. DeSalvo meets and greets – briefly – while Tavenner keeps her distance at HIMSS (March 3). HIMSS crowd skeptical of promise for flexibility on MU2 hardship requests (Feb.

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Meaningful Use Interoperability HIE EHR 28

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. While companies like Microsoft launched PHR platforms such as HealthVault a number of years ago, most of these PHRs were not linked to EHRs.

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Medicine and Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

These formal training programs will result in the development of a cadre of HIT workers who can help rural hospitals and clinics implement and maintain systems, such as electronic health records (EHR), telehealth, home monitoring and mobile health technology, and meet EHR meaningful use standards.

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Health System CIO

AUGUST 7, 2013

If you can adopt and change your practice and how you document and how you order, we’ll meet you halfway and try to make the process as easy as we possibly can. A lot of larger organizations have a team of people that are dedicated just to focus on Meaningful Use. Bold Statements. I don’t have that luxury.

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HIE Meaningful Use Nursing Primary Care 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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Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 113

Docnotes

MAY 31, 2017

Recently, there have been renewed calls for scaling back the certification program and its many criteria, citing the maturation of the EHR incentive programs (meaningful use) and the fact that some of the certification criteria define capabilities that are not invoked by the incentive programs. ” I disagree.

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eHealth

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

There were several other chapter meetings, chapter leader institute, meaningful use meeting and the Nursing Informatics Institute, all well delivered HIMSS events. In June, I had the opportunity to speak at the Northern Ohio HIMSS conference on the Value of Patient Engagement.

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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. This means you can streamline your whole office using TheraNest because all your employees will have access to the software without increasing your overhead!

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Mental health EHR Private practice Meaningful Use 61

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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use 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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use 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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use 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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use 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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use 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.

Interoperability 60

Interoperability HIE Meaningful Use Healthcare Innovation 60

Healthcare Exchange Standards

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

I have influenced USA regulations such as HIPAA, and Meaningful Use; as well as regional regulations globally. It appears I am going to miss the September HL7 meeting in Baltimore. I was a member of the HIT Standards - Privacy and Security workgroup, Direct, HITSP, and CCHIT before that.

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Interoperability FHIR HIE eHealth 40

care innovations

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

In a military offensive, you are thinking through the subsequent actions and what strategies and tactics you will use to meet those episodic events. Quite a bit of this is inspired by ONC’s Meaningful Use, telehealth reimbursement models, and new CMS programs mandating effective change.

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Docnotes

JANUARY 27, 2020

I wasn’t very involved with this team, but due to my ownership of many of the clinical decision support initiatives, I started getting invited to meetings we had with pharmaceutical companies. Such conversations were not uncommon – it is valuable for ONC leaders to meet with the companies we regulated.

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Docnotes

AUGUST 15, 2016

ONC’s annual meeting – an event that costs several hundred thousand dollars and attracts the same participants every year – adds rather little to the nation’s progress toward improved health through the strategic use of health IT. Why was this?

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EHR Meaningful Use Health IT 45

Chilmark Research

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Taking a pulse of the folks we met with here, virtually everyone is looking beyond Meaningful Use for future product development. We held meetings with a number of them, and when asked about their primary buyer within an HCO, more than one said they’re seeing a shift towards joint-decisionmaking by the CFO, CIO, and other leadership.

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EHR Meaningful Use Leadership Nursing 60

David Chou

MARCH 5, 2019

The new CIO must make sure he or she is recognized as the go-to person for help on integrating technologies, ensuring they meet corporate policies and getting the right price, rather than the leader of complex vendor selections for specific business units.” Helping the provider or health system organize and make the best use of its data 3.

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EHR Meaningful Use Digital Health Leadership 40

Healthcare Exchange Standards

AUGUST 10, 2016

If as a Secure Node, I want to only allow certificates know to me and reject the rest, is that counted as not meeting IHE spec? Testing ATNA Secure Communications Direct addresses- Trusted vs Trustable Identity - - Proofing Securing RESTful services IHE Encryption choices Healthcare use of X.509

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Chilmark Research

MARCH 6, 2014

There is no one-size fits all approach to patient engagement, which is the ultimate shortcoming of the portal approach espoused by the Meaningful Use program. One promising trend is that more of these new “startups” seem to be run by seasoned veterans, doctors, and technologists than in previous years.

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HIE EHR Meaningful Use Primary Care 60

HIStalk Interviews

APRIL 10, 2019

The big EMR push, Meaningful Use, and even ICD-10 took people’s attention away from the post-acute care side. You take a look on the tablet at their quality scores and decide which three to visit because they meet the criteria. I’m having the time of my life running this small company.

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Nursing Meaningful Use EMR Primary Care 48

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. See my note about layered NPPs, above.

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HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Health Blawg

JANUARY 16, 2019

In the 1996 HIPAA statute (which covered a lot of other ground), Congress gave itself one year to legislate standards for health data privacy and security, and decreed that if it were to fail to meet that deadline, HHS would have to create regulations from whole cloth. See my note about layered NPPs, above.

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HIPAA Health Data Accountable Care Meaningful Use 60

Redox

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Unfortunately, despite this good news, there are still major technological and logistic hurdles between now and us all meeting up at HIMSS 2021 like “Wow, what a year that was, huh?”. Functionally, this type of tool is called an immunization registry , and, luckily for us, it has existed for decades.

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Meaningful Use EHR Public Health Medicare 52

Healthcare Exchange Standards

JANUARY 16, 2013

This defines the purpose of a security Audit Log, the uses of this audit log information, including how it is used to provide patients with accounting of disclosures. This specification has been leveraged by many regional initiatives including in the USA the Meaningful Use Stage 2.

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Healthcare IT News - Telehealth

OCTOBER 12, 2020

And so that's why we started interoperability years before meaningful use required it. And so, finally, we had a CEO give a talk at our users group meeting who said that his CIO came in and handed him a piece of paper and said, "Sign this, I need some software." They were afraid to.

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Interoperability Telehealth Meaningful Use FHIR 183

Digital Health Today

JANUARY 28, 2021

Having spent over a decade reinventing the EHR to meet the needs of underserved healthcare providers at my company Azalea Health , I believe the answer is yes. In the psychiatric hospital setting, there is no regulatory requirement currently around meaningful use that is driving technology adoption.

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EHR Meaningful Use Digital Health Leadership 98

Redox

APRIL 13, 2023

This is actually a recording from a recent internal all-hands team meeting at Redox. We often invite customers to these so we can learn more about how they’re using Redox, collect feedback, and better understand the impact that they’re making in the industry. That was Cheryl Rodenfels, CIO of US Heart and Vascular.

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EHR Interoperability Meaningful Use Digital Health 52

CMS.gov

MARCH 7, 2013

CMS has worked with partners and representatives from industry to identify and finalize a set of unified quality measures which meet the requirements of multiple programs, such as the Physician Quality Reporting System (PQRS) and Physician Value-Based Modifier, in addition to meeting EHR Incentive Programs requirements.

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eHealth EHR Meaningful Use Accountable Care 32

Docnotes

JANUARY 30, 2022

Here goes: the front-loading of the DSRIP program caused dollars to go to PPS sponsors for setting up the program and for checking boxes (literally – “we had a meeting with so-and-so”) to satisfy reporting requirements and subsequent payments. This is likely the paragraph that will get me in the most trouble.

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Primary Care Telehealth HIE Public Health 52