Who’s Who on the #HIT100 List
3rd Annual HIT100 List and Our First Degree of Separation The #HIT100 list was started by Michael Planchart, The EHR Guy, @theEHRGuy. People vote on…
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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…
NIH Commits $24 Million Annually for Big Data Centers of Excellence
Efforts will harness power of complex datasets to improve health, aid discovery, reduce duplication The National Institutes of Health will fund up to $24 million…
Health IT Business News – Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Today’s Business News On August 16 and 17, the 3rd annual Meaningful Use of Complex Medical Data (MUCMD) Symposium is returning to The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los…
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…
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…
Lawmakers Look to Expand Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Eligibility
MITECH Act Reintroduced to Expand Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Last week lawmakers reintroduced efforts to expand meaningful use incentive payments to certain clinics and safetey-net providers…
CMS Releases Updated Data on EHR Adoption
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data that demonstrate that doctors and hospitals are using electronic health records (EHRs) to provide more…