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March 11, 2013The meaningful use Stage 2 standards are expected to reduce some of the confusion associated with health information exchange. Some of that confusion, including questions over a public or private exchange model, consent management, structured data use and challenges to … Continue reading
Posted in Health Information Exchange | Tagged CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIE, HIE Standards, Meaningful Use, Patient Experience, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentHIMSS13 Update – OCR Director Discusses HIPAA/HITECH Compliance
March 8, 2013It’s about the patients, it’s about safeguarding privacy, and it’s about trying to avoid making the same mistakes twice, said Office for Civil Rights Director Leon Rodriguez to hundreds of HIMSS13 attendees Monday morning at “A Dialogue On HIPAA/HITECH Compliance: … Continue reading
Posted in HIPAA Complicance | Tagged CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, OCR, PHI, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security, PHI Security | Leave a commentUS Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Incentive Program
March 6, 2013The fiscal trap that members of Congress and the president set for themselves will punch a 2% hole in one of the federal electronic health-record incentive payment programs under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, a federal official has confirmed.The … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases February 2013 EI Connections Newsletter
February 28, 2013Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its February 2013 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: February 2013 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter? Click on this link to … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC, Patient Experience | Leave a commentSurvey Finds Disparity Among Physicians About HIE’s
February 25, 2013What does the average American doctor think about available health information exchange technologies several years into the meaningful use program? To answer that, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT conducted surveys of providers HIE perspectives and the … Continue reading
Posted in HIE | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, HIE, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentAHRQ Study Shows CPOE Reduces Medication Errors
February 22, 2013A new report, supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, demonstrates that processing prescriptions through computerized physician order entry can cut drug errors in half, and could avoid more than 17 million adverse incidents annually. The authors of … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT | Tagged CPOE, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services, HIT, Meaningful Use, Patient Experience | Leave a commentHealth IT May Eliminate Healthcare Disparities
February 21, 2013The use of health IT could not only help to improve the quality of care, but also eliminate disparities in care among communities of color, according to a new report released today at a White House Summit hosted by the … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Study, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services, HIT, Meaningful Use, ONC, Patient Experience | Leave a commentECRI Publishes Top 10 C-Suite Hospital Technology Issues Watch List For 2013
February 20, 2013Healthcare reform, accountable care organizations, readmissions and reimbursement rates are just a few of the challenges facing today’s healthcare leaders, according to a new report from ECRI Institute, a non-profit evidence-based practice center. Balancing costs and savings potential for new … Continue reading
Posted in Health IT | Tagged CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIT, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentEHR Usability Becoming More Of A Focus For The ONC & NIST
February 19, 2013Electronic health records (EHRs) have to be usable and useful by physicians and integrate with hospitals’ or practices’ other systems to benefit providers or else the money spent on them is just wasted. A Physician Focused, Patient Driven®approach to EHR … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentONC Working To Fix EHR Stage 2 MU Testing Tool
February 15, 2013The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology at HHS is acknowledging that some snags on its end are creating a bottleneck in its program to ensure that electronic health record systems used by hospitals, office-based physicians and … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Health IT Standards, Meaningful Use, ONC, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a comment ← Older posts Newer posts →
