Guest post by Steve Emery, Director of Product Management at HealthPort
The Meaningful Use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule Making is out and it would bring sweeping changes to how hospitals and eligible professionals release records and other information to patients.
Essentially, CMS is dropping three Stage 1 reporting criteria and replacing them with a core requirement for patient online access to medical records. CMS’s goal is to move the release of information (ROI) process from labor
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HIT Interoperability with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst Pt. 2
In this second part interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst provides an overview of their several offerings as part of their integrated HIT platform. This is part 2 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer.
Part 2 Key highlights include:
Medication Reconciliation overview
Patient Innovations overview
EPCS Gold 2.0 Overview
Partnership with EHR Advisor
Interoperability vs. Fragmentation in the HIT Industry
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HIMSS 2012 in Retrospect – From Patient Engagement to Big Data. Viva Las Vegas or Tumbling Dice?
The following is a guest post from Jane Sarasohn-Kahn's Health Populi blog reflecting her thoughts on last week's HIMSS12:
The record attendance at HIMSS12, in terms of both attendees (numbering some 38,000) and exhibitors, illustrated just how hot health information technology has become in the 20 years since I first began attending this meeting — when it was only a few thousand hospital computer geeks and materials managers picking up pocket protectors and calculators
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The Proposed Rule for Stage 2 Meaningful Use NPRM Now Available
The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage of meaningful use for the Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs, which are administered by CMS.
CMS has developed a fact sheet to give providers an overview of the rule and how Stage 2 expands upon Stage 1 of meaningful use. The fact sheet can be found on the EHR Incentive Programs website
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Interview/Podcast:HIT Interoperability with Cameron Deemer, President at DrFirst Pt. 1
Previously, DrFirst has been primarily known as a leader in the e-prescribing space and the only certified solution to e-prescribe controlled substances with their EPCS Gold 2.0 product. Over the years, DrFirst Inc. has evolved into a more integrated HIT platform with their approach of promoting interoperability in integrating EMR/PMS and other health IT technology. Most importantly, DrFirst strongly believes in putting the DrFirst.
In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks
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Thought Leadership:The Total Cost of Ownership of EHR in a Meaningful Use World
When it comes to EMR and PM system implementation, every practice is asking, "What's this going to cost me?" Download the whitepaper The Total Cost of Ownership of EHR in a Meaningful Use World for ways to make the answer, "As little as possible."
Learn how you can assess and minimize the total cost of ownership for an EMR and PM system in your practice:
What costs to expect over the lifetime of your EMR and PM system
How to use TCO in your EMR and PM system selection process
How
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Epic Dominates in Number of Meaningful Use Attestations in 2011
The domination of Epic Systems continues according to a Meaningful Use Top 10 report released by the Institute for Health Technology Transformation leading all vendors with almost 28% (6,330) of Meaningful Use attestations in 2011. The report was compiled by vendor, state, and provider specialty based on the analysis of the most current data sets provided by the following:
CMS (Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services)
Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Program attestations with the
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Video: Tips for Overcoming the Gray Areas of Meaningful Use Stage 1 for Safety Net Providers
This webinar provides tips and guidance of how safety net providers, such as health centers, critical access hospitals, and rural health clinics can overcome common gray areas of meeting Meaningful Use Stage 1 objectives. Gray areas are objectives within the final rule that are still not clear to providers.
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Interactive: A Status Report on Health Information Technology in the States
This map above provides a status report on where states stand in distributing Medicaid incentive payments for adoption of health information technology based on the latest data that was provided by CMS October 2011.
The 2009 economic stimulus law signed by President Barack Obama contained $27 billion in federal funds for eligible health providers who install electronic health records and follow government “meaningful use” guidelines to improve patient care. This portion of the law — known as
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Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Delayed to 2014
Today, the Department of Health and Human Services has moved the start date for Stage 2 of the electronic health records meaningful use program from 2013 to 2014. The department released the following statement regarding their decision:
"Input from the vendor community and the provider community makes clear that the current schedule for compliance with stage 2 meaningful use objectives in 2013 poses a nearly insurmountable timing challenge for those who attest to meaningful use in 2011. With
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