Searching for Creative Patient Portal Solutions
By Joy Rios, Health IT Consultant at Ask Joy Health IT Consulting Twitter: @askjoyrios This year, as you may already know, both hospitals and physician…
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ONC Issues Draft Nationwide Health IT Interoperability Roadmap
The ONC released Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A Shared Nationwide Interoperability Roadmap Version 1.0. The draft Roadmap is a proposal to deliver better care and result in healthier people through the safe and secure exchange and use of electronic health information.
CMS Intends to Modify Requirements for Meaningful Use
By Patrick Conway MD – CMS is pleased to announce our intent to engage in rulemaking to update the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs beginning in 2015. These intended changes would help to reduce the reporting burden on providers, while supporting the long term goals of the program.
Healthcare CIOs Praise ONC for Standards ‘Playbook’
Building on the announcement from HHS, pledging much-needed changes to the Meaningful Use program, healthcare IT leaders praised the release of the Office of the…
Preparing for ICD-10
By Ric Sinclair – ICD-10 is often described in scary terms—a potential disaster, a perfect storm, an angry attacker bent on destroying your practice. OK, maybe not that last one. But as you ready your organization for ICD-10, consider applying some of the principles of Krav Maga.
2015 EHR Incentive Program Changes to Come
Breaking News: The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) intends to engage in rulemaking this spring to help ensure providers continue to meet meaningful…
Free Live Physician CME Webinar
To qualify for Meaningful Use, improve patient engagement, and prepare for value-based reimbursement, nearly 40% of all physicians are looking to switch EHRs. Many have put it off because this big switch is very challenging.
The Experience of Interoperability Thus Far
By John Halamka, MD Twitter: @jhalamka As I travel across the country and listen to CIOs struggling with mandates from Meaningful Use to ICD-10 to…
Meaningful Use Pain Point for Hospitals: Transition of Care
By Jim Tate – The transition for Eligible Hospitals (EH) from Stage 1 to Stage 2 Meaningful Use (MU) certainly has challenges. Six months ago I had imagined that patient engagement requirements would be the troublemaker. After all, getting patients to come to the hospital patient portal was a whole new ball of wax.