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CMS: Meaningful Use Payments Tops $25.7B

by Jasmine Pennic 12/11/2014 Leave a Comment

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As of December 1st, CMS has paid more than $25.7 billion in meaningful use payments to eligible hospitals and professionals, according to the latest CMS data. Elisabeth Myers, head of CMS' Office of eHealth Standards and Services made announcement on Tuesday during a Health IT policy Committee meeting.  MU Registation and Payment Data CMS data reported 505,641 active participants in the meaningful use incentive program through October 2014 broken down by:  October-14 Program To
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Top 5 Concerns for Hospital CFOs in 2015

by Fred Pennic 12/11/2014 Leave a Comment

Hospital CFO_New Financing Program Minimizes Impact of ICD-10 Revenue Delay for Private Practices_revenue cycle management

Continued meaningful use expenses for EHR, HIE, analytics, portals and mobile apps are hitting today's hospitals hard as changes in payment models based on patient compliance, pricing transparency, and population health demand even more capital. For chief financial officiers (CFOs) working at hospitals that are struggling financially, the outlook looks increasingly bleak.  According to a recent Black Book report, 94 percent of hospital CFOs self-identified as “struggling”, reported that delayed
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Can Public APIs Unlock True Health IT Interoperability?

by Edmund Billings MD 12/09/2014 1 Comment

Can Public APIs Unlock True Health IT Interoperability?

 Do we finally have the spark? Interoperability is the current health IT buzzword because it’s the essential ingredient in creating a system that benefits patients, doctors and hospitals. Almost everyone in healthcare is pressing for it and is frustrated, though probably not surprised, that Meaningful Use did not get us there. The ONC says within three years we’ll have a roadmap for providing interoperability “across vendor platforms,” which should probably elicit a collective groan.
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EHR Usability for Ongoing Optimization

by Dr. Stephen Beck 12/08/2014 Leave a Comment

ePatient Movement_Clinical Decisions at the Point of Care

Dr. Stephen Beck, CMIO at Mercy Health (formerly Catholic Health Partners) discusses how his organization is approaching EHR usability to deliver improvements in efficiency, care quality and provider satisfaction.  Nearly every day I read a new article about physician dissatisfaction with EHRs. There seems to be many reasons for this attitude. Part of it is the need for better data collection tools to ensure ongoing optimization to keep pace with changing regulations. For example, an October
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ONC Issues Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

by Fred Pennic 12/08/2014 Leave a Comment

Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020

Today the ONC has issued the Federal Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020, a coordinated and focused effort to appropriately collect, share, and use interoperable health information to improve health care, individual, community and public health, and advance research across the federal government and in collaboration with private industry. The Strategic Plan, which is open for 60 day comment period serves as the broad federal strategy setting the context and framing the Nationwide
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ONC Report: 26 Trends Driving Physician EHR Adoption

by Jasmine Pennic 12/05/2014 1 Comment

ONC Physician EHR Adoption Graph 1

The need to share patient information with other providers and the use of financial incentives are key drivers in why many providers adopt and use health information technology tools like EHRs, according a data brief released today from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC). ONC Report Overview The new data brief details why physicians decided to adopt – or not adopt –EHRs, and it helps to explain how financial incentives drive physician EHR adoption. Additionally, data
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Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA President Dr. Robert Wah

by Our Thought Leaders 12/05/2014 11 Comments

Coalition for ICD-10 Responds to AMA President Dr. Robert Wah

  The Coalition for ICD-10 has published the following response to recent remarks made by AMA president Dr. Robert Wah, in which he compared the AMA's opposition to ICD-10 to the movie Star Wars.  In his recent speech to the AMA House of Delegates, AMA president Dr. Robert Wah characterized the planned implementation of ICD-10 as analogous to the dark forces controlling the galaxy in the movie Star Wars: “If it was a droid, ICD-10 would serve Darth Vader… For more than a
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Fremont Family Care Selected as 2014 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award Recipient

by HITC Staff 12/04/2014 Leave a Comment

HIMSS Enterprise Davies Award Recipient

Fremont Family Care (FFC) of Fremont, Neb., has been named a 2014 HIMSS Ambulatory Davies Award recipient. Since 1994, the HIMSS Nicholas E. Davies Award of Excellence has recognized outstanding achievement of organizations that have used health information technology to substantially improve patient outcomes while achieving return on investment. The Davies Awards program promotes electronic health record-enabled improvement in patient outcomes through sharing of case studies and lessons learned
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PwC: Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2015

by HITC Staff 12/04/2014 1 Comment

PwC: Top 10 Healthcare Industry Issues to Watch in 2015

PwC's Health Research Institute releases the top 10 healthcare industry issues to watch in 2015.  In its annual Top health industry issues of 2015 report, PwC’s Health Research Institute (HRI) anticipates that the $2.8 trillion U.S. healthcare sector will start feeling like a true market. HRI’s report explores the top 10 trends that are expected to shape the sector in 2015, including the expansion of do-it-yourself healthcare, how industry will adapt to the newly insured, and consumers’
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JASON Releases Data for Individual Health Report

by Jasmine Pennic 12/03/2014 Leave a Comment

Report Top 20 EHR Vendors by Market Share

In a blog post yesterday, the ONC National Coordinator Karen DeSalvo, MD references a new JASON report titled Data for Individual Health that focuses on "how to create a health information system that focuses on the health of individuals, not just the care they receive." JASON is an independent group of scientists and academics that has been advising the Federal government on matters of science and technology for over 50 years. The report commissioned by the HHS was done in partnership with the
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