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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 commentCIO’s Say Security Personnel Shortage Is Increasing Threat of PHI Data Breaches
February 25, 2013The sixth Global Information Security Workforce Study, conducted by (ISC)² shows that a shortage of information security professionals is having an adverse impact on healthcare and other industries, even as vulnerabilities such as mobile devices and social media are on … Continue reading
Posted in PHI Data Security | Tagged Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, PHI, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security, PHI Security | 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 commentCMS To Rollout New Records System For Long Term Hospital Care
February 20, 2013The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will develop a new records system that will facilitate quality reporting for long term hospital care, according to Federal Register notice posted on Wednesday, February 6, 2013. Specific quality metrics quantifying the care … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Patient Experience | 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 commentStudy Finds EHR’s Help Reduce Medicaid Costs
February 14, 2013Tracking Medicaid beneficiaries who frequently use emergency departments and adopting electronic tracking systems to exchange patient information is among one of the ways states can cut Medicaid costs, according to a new report by the Washington Health Care Authority (HCA). … Continue reading
Posted in Electronic Health Records | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Study, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services, Patient Experience | Leave a commentThe ONC Releases National Health IT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan
February 13, 2013Acknowledging that new health information technologies can create patient-safety risks, HHS’ health IT office invited healthcare providers, vendors and the public to comment on its recently issued national Health Information Technology Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan.“Just as health IT … Continue reading
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