AHRQ Announces Interest in Research on Health IT Safety
AHRQ has published a Special Emphasis Notice (SEN) to support projects to generate new evidence on health information technology (IT) system safety. The standing R01…
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Upcoming HHS Agency Events
Mark your calendars and don’t miss these upcoming events for the agencies of HHS including CMS, AHRQ, and ONC.
EHR Incentive Program Status Report December 2014
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – December.
EHR Patient Outcomes Just Got Real
By Rich Rutherford – Aligning incentive and quality programs with existing Accountable Care Organization (ACO) agreements is essential to improving patient outcomes and confidently negotiating private payer risk-based contracts. I started installing EHRs in 1999 with expected benefits of prescription legibility and reduced chart pulls.
EHR Incentive Program Deadlines
Keep up with the important dates and deadlines for the CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Use the CMS Interactive Timeline to stay informed on all their eHealth programs which also include quality measurement, administrative simplification, and patient outcomes/payment reform.
Interoperability at HIMSS 15
HIMSS15 will be in Chicago this year for a week of dynamic education, networking and the latest technology solutions. The theme is transforming health – through the power of information – through innovation, engagement, leadership, connectivity and more. Like the past few years interoperability at HIMSS will play a big part in the event.
5 Significant Health IT Trends for 2015
By Justin Barnes – While MU, EHR interoperability, ICD-10 readiness, patient safety and mobile health will all continue to trend upwards with great importance, the five areas that I strategically see growing rapidly in 2015 are focused on the consumerism of healthcare, personalization of medicine, consumer-facing mobile strategies, advancements in health information interoperability including consumer-directed data exchange and finally, innovation focused on tele-health and virtual care.
Michigan REC Reaches 3700 Goal on Assisting Eligible Professionals
The Michigan Center for Effective IT Adoption (M-CEITA), Michigan’s REC, has reached its original grant-funded goal of helping 3,724 eligible professionals to Meaningful Use of electronic health record (EHR) technology. This Altarum Institute–led program was initially funded in 2010 by the ONC.
Advance Interoperable Health IT Services to Support HIE
On February 3, ONC released the Advance Interoperable Health Information Technology Services to Support Health Information Exchange Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA), one of the three FOAs.