Massachusetts Docs Await MU Licensing Requirements
By Anthony Brino, Associate Editor Government Health IT Starting in 2015, doctors in Massachusetts will have to show health IT meaningful use proficiency as a…
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Patient Engagement Through Social Media
Engaging Your Patients Using Social Media Stage 2 of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs will begin in 2014 for those Eligible Professionals (EPs) who have…
Applying Structured Change Management to EHR Implementations
Change Management and EHR Implementations The value of Electronic Health Records (EHR) seems obvious to most of us. With our vast progress in technology, it…
ONC Releases Updated Progress Report on Health IT Adoption
ONC Assesses Achievements to date on Five Year Health IT Plan Last week the ONC released a report detailing progress to date on the five…
Clarification With Major Impact: A Safety Net for Meaningful Use Attestation Success
by Naomi Levinthal and Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom Republished from iHealthBeat.org Eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals (EHs) participating in the CMS Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs…
Patient Engagement is an Important Focus of MU Stage 2
What are you doing about Patient Engagement? In a medical practice these days categorizing your patients is common. You have active patients that come to…
Data Scientists Must Also Be Research Methodology Scientists
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor I had the chance recently to attend a conference in Singapore, Big Data and Analytics…
HIPAA Compliance & Meaningful Use Tech Tips (part 2)
COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting HIPAA Compliance Tech Tips Part 2 (for the first of this 2-part series click here) More critical components of a HIPAA compliant…
WEDI and OCR Summer Webinar Series on HIPAA Omnibus Continues
Webinars Offer Guidance to Small Healthcare Providers on Implementing HIPAA Omnibus The Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange (WEDI) is a non-profit organization established in 1991…