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Healthcare Informatics
“The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) announced today the launch of new CCHIT Certified programs for electronic health records (EHRs) in behavioral health, both as an optional addition to ambulatory EHR certification and as a standalone behavioral health EHR used in other outpatient settings, dermatology, and long-term and post-acute care, which also includes optional add-on certifications for EHRs used in skilled nursing facilities and home health.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCHIT, Certification
Mary Mosquera, Healthcare IT News
“Finding a durable business model to keep afloat financially is one of the biggest challenges facing health information exchanges as the federal and state grants that funded their startup and early development expire.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Sustainability
Smart Healthcare
“Burns said Scotland’s experience of EHRs, with a system for use in emergencies covering almost the entire population, shows that they are worth introducing in England.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News, UK EHR | Country: UK | EHR: EHR, EHR UK | Tags: Opt out, Ownership, summary-care-records
Ideaworks
“A new study has shown that the internet can be a valuable slimming aid. The findings, which stem from one of the longest weight loss trials in U.S history, showed that people who used a weight management website achieved the most success in keeping off the pounds.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Internet, Obesity
Brad Waugh, NaviNet
“Last week during the CMS and ONC press briefing on meaningful use, we had the privilege to listen to Regina Holliday’s courageous and powerful story of losing a loved one while having to deal with a healthcare support system not properly equipped to fully care for patients.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Meaningful Use
Emily Lu, Medicine for Change
“Last Wednesday, I attended the Health 2.0 NYC Meetup on Social Media, bringing together twitter-savvy health care providers, healthcare media consultants and healthcare tech leaders to discuss what effect social media has had on the healthcare industry so far and what more can and should be done to leverage social media to better the healthcare industry.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Patient, Social Media
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Suffice to say, when John Glaser speaks, the healthcare industry should listen. Even as Glaser moves from the healthcare provider and policy areas of the industry to the vendor side, he remains a respected authority on healthcare IT.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Health Information Exchange
EHR Bloggers
“When you use social networking such as Twitter and Facebook, the very use of those tools implies that you want to connect socially with friends and business partners through social media platforms. But, how can you keep the worlds of business and socializing separate, especially if you work in the healthcare field?
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: facebook, Provider, Social Media, Twitter
Sam Wertheimer, Justmeans
“Last week the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced new requirements for implementation of electronic health record (EHR) systems in physician offices throughout the U.S. These directives – revised since an initial list was circulated months ago – emerged to mixed reviews.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Meaningful Use
Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat
“With the final rules on “meaningful use,” standards and certification criteria and the temporary electronic health record certification program all released, many health care providers are starting to scramble to ensure that they can qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments beginning in 2011.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Meaningful Use, Mental Health
EMR Daily News
“The past 10 days have been monumental for Electronic Medical Records (EMR) system providers and users.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, Efficiency, Implementation
Healthcare Informatics
“The eHealth Initiative has identified and collected information on 234 active health information exchange initiatives (HIEs) in the country in its annual survey. Of the 234 known initiatives, 199 groups responded to and qualified for inclusion in the 2010 Annual Survey on Health Information Exchange.
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27 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Health Information Exchange, Sustainability
John, EMR and HIPAA
“Is it necessary to get CCHIT certified vendor just because you want to qualify for incentives or regardless you MUST go for a certified solution?
Because I make the case that one should go with the one that provides the most amount of value.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: CCHIT, Certification, Meaningful Use
Paul Roemer, Healthcare IT Strategy
“Seth Godin wrote about the “Perfect Problem.”
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Implementation, Meaningful Use
Marianne Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek Healthcare Blogs
“Hospital executives aren’t just worried about having their own organizations meet the federal government’s meaningful use requirements; they’re also concerned about their affiliated and owned doctor practices achieving the goals.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Hospitals, Meaningful Use, Physicians
Nicole Lewis, InformationWeek Healthcare
“While there is widespread use of the Internet among Americans — 74% of Americans 18 and older go online, according to the Pew Research Center — a recent survey from Forrester Research shows that communication between physicians and patients via the Internet is still struggling to gain traction.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | Tags: Communication, e-Health, Online, Physician-Patient Relationship
Margalit Gur-Arie, On Healthcare Technology
“Can you buy an ONC Certified EHR, or EHR module, and discover to your chagrin that no matter how hard you try, Meaningful Use is not within reach?
While the spotlights were shining brightly on CMS and ONC as the final definitions of Meaningful Use (MU) and EHR certification criteria were being released, NIST quietly posted its (almost) final definition of EHR testing procedures for certification.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Certification, e-prescribing, lab results, Medication History
John Halamka, Life as a Healthcare CIO
“As we all implement Meaningful Use stages 1, 2, and 3 from 2011-2015, we will increasingly share data among payers, providers and patients.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Data Sharing, Meaningful Use, Privacy
Fred Trotter
“As clinicians, doctors and other healthcare providers are the stewards of their patients data. But what happens when they lose control over that healthcare data? Most people focus on what happens when that private data becomes too available. But far more commonly healthcare data becomes trapped. Far too often, it becomes buried in one way or another, lost forever and useless to patients.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Cloud, Encryption, Open Source
Patty Enrado, EHRWatch
“Many hospitals and physician offices are beginning to embark on the journey to implement and derive meaningful use out of EHRs. The Beacon communities will demonstrate how health IT can improve clinical outcomes, drive efficiencies and increase patient safety. Early adopters of EMRs and EHRs will also serve as role models in terms of where to find value and ROI. There has to be a business case for any IT investment, and finding multiple business cases for EHRs will only increase adoption.
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26 July 2010 | No Comments »
Categories: News | Country: United States | EHR: EHR, EHR USA | Tags: Adoption, registry
