By Frank Fortner – In October of 2014, I attended the CHIME fall conference and had the privilege of listening to Dr. Peter Diamandis. He brings an optimistic message about the value created through the exponential growth of certain technologies — that starts after they become “digitized,” yielding exponential leaps forward rather than small, linear steps.
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The AMA and MedStar Health’s National Center for Human Factors in Healthcare have developed a comparative EHR User-Centered Design Evaluation Framework that shows a lack of focus among regulators and industry on user-centered design and usability testing.
By Bill Hersh – The week of October 1st was a busy week in the health IT/informatics world, as the US government released a flurry of rules and documents around health IT. As I tell my students, it is great to be living in this ever-changing part of the history of our field.
From time to time more guidance or rule changes occur to necessitate updated answers in the CMS FAQ database. Here are some of the latest updates to questions in the EHR Incentive Program category.
This weeks highlights from our Storify. October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, ONC survey on EHRs, our top guest posts, and World Congress 13th Annual Health Information Technology Summit.
Healthcare is undergoing its biggest transformation in decades. Payment models are shifting away from volume to a focus on value. Providers more engaged in population health management. Consumers are becoming more active in their care choices, and more.
Health information exchange is happening all around. This week’s HIE rundown includes: Mobile Heartbeat partners with CDW, three health information organizations join PA Patient & Provider Network, & NATE transfers Provider Trust Bundle to CAHIE.
The AMA took a significant step toward its goal of accelerating digital medicine into clinic practice with the foundational meeting of an AMA-sponsored workgroup charged with facilitating the integration of the latest technological advances in telehealth services into the Current Procedural Terminology code set.
By Richard Kronick PhD – The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, or AHRQ, an agency within HHS, is the lead Federal agency charged with improving the safety and quality of America’s health care system.