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…
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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.
By Bakul Patel & Jeffrey Shuren – Engaged patients! Quantified self! Lifelogging! These buzzwords describe an exciting technology-based, patient-centered approach to living healthier. The myriad of systems that record, share, and use personal and health data have become a significant help for many of us by putting information at our fingertips to use when and where we think it might help promote a healthy lifestyle. The ultimate goal of these products is to improve our quality of life.
By Matt Gretczko – There has been a lot of dialogue lately regarding CMS’s potential expansion of a star rating system to providers. Not surprisingly, it is being rather heavily opposed.