By Matt Fisher – Advisory Opinion 15-02, issued by the Office of the Inspector General (“OIG”) for the Department of Health and Human Services on February 13, 2015 offers some, albeit minimal, relief for providers excluded from participation on Medicare and other federal healthcare programs.
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By Catherine Costa – Matching EHRs does not involve just matching technology performance; it also involves the data quality, process proficiency and policy restrictions (federal, state and organizational).
By Edmund Billings, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Medsphere Systems Corporation Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a…
By John Halamka, MD – I have long believed that social networking concepts, mobile devices, analytics, and cloud are key tactics for the success of any IT organization.
By Justin Barnes – There is talk in the medical industry of helping providers practice at the maximum of their licensure. One reason for this is that we don’t have enough primary care physicians, and, in part, can address this gap with physician assistants, nurse practitioners, registered nurses, and a myriad of non-traditional team members like pharmacists and health coaches.
By William Hersh – As in all complex endeavors, the push for a healthcare system underpinned by structured and interoperable electronic health record (EHR) data has turned out to be more complicated than we might have anticipated when acceleration of EHR adoption was begun about a decade ago.
By Steve Spearman – For EPs and EHs, attesting to Meaningful Use can have a huge financial impact. When an organization attests, they are required to satisfy a number of objectives and associated measures demonstrating the meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
By John Halamka – BIDMC has self-developed its core clinical information systems for many years. We certified all our applications for the 2011 and 2014 ONC criteria, attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 in every appropriate year. BIDMC has hundreds of person-years invested in our web-based, cloud-hosted in-patient and out-patient applications.
By John Halamka, MD – The February HIT Standards Committee was a joint meeting with the HIT Policy Committee to align the policy and technology work ahead in 2015.