State HIE News and Updates – 11-3-15
Improving the quality, safety and efficiency of health care delivered in their states. Here are updates being reported from Vermont, Colorado, Georgia, Arizona, Arkansas, and California.
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AMA and MedStar Health Partner to Drive Improvements in EHR Usability
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.
GA Completes Connection with AL to Support State-to-State Exchange
Georgia Health Information Network (GaHIN), Georgia’s statewide health information exchange, and Alabama’s One Health Record announced the success of an electronic connection between the two networks.
Meaningful Use in the Rear View Mirror
By Jim Tate – The rear view mirror. Now that’s one handy tool. Helps us keep an eye on things that might be gaining on us. Almost as good as having eyes in the back of our heads. Things can creep up on us and before we know it what we have may have forgotten is demanding our attention.
CMS Issues Updates on EHR Incentive Questions
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.
A Brief Summary of the CMS Meaningful Use Final Rule
By John Halamka MD – I’ve been asked to summarize the 752 page CMS Meaningful Use Final Rule. Although it is a final rule, it has a 60 day comment period, so there is still is an opportunity to modify some of the criteria.
This Week in #HealthIT
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.
HIE Rundown 10-22-15
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.
First National Meeting of SHIEC Produces Key Initiatives and 2015-2016 BOD
The first annual meeting of the recently formed Strategic Health Information Exchange Collaborative produced several key initiatives and elected the 2015-2016 SHIEC Board of Directors. SHIEC is a national consortium and trade association of regional and community HIEs formed in late 2014.