ONC begins work on Stage 2 meaningful use requirements
Date: Dec 22, 2010 While healthcare entities are still trying to change the Stage 1 meaningful use criteria, the Health IT Policy Committee has begun fleshing out the Stage 2 criteria.
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How will Berwick impact health IT adoption?
Date: Jul 09, 2010 While Congress was in recess, President Obama appointed Donald Berwick, MD, to lead the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, which has been without an administrator since 2006. Let's forget the usual politics for a moment and focus on the impact this appointment will make on health IT adoption.
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KLAS report examines EMR decision making
Date: Apr 08, 2010 A new KLAS report reveals that physicians who are choosing an EMR system within the next two years are considering a larger pool of software vendors. That’s made possible because the market has grown so much.
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Reducing meaningful use criteria a good move
Date: Feb 17, 2010 The meaningful use workgroup, which reports to HHS' Health IT Policy Committee, recommended a reduction in the number of measures providers would need to meet in order to qualify for federal incentive funds under CMS. From the overall feedback CMS has received since the meaningful use criteria was released at the end of December 2009, it's the right thing to do.
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Will meaningful use drive technical standardization among IT vendors?
Date: Oct 20, 2009 Surescripts announced it will adopt a technical standard that will allow physicians to e-prescribe and access prescription information from pharmacies and health plans through electronic health records software. Federal regulators are recommending that the standard be used as one of the ways to demonstrate meaningful use of EHR adoption and implementation.
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Change management for quality improvement
Date: Oct 19, 2009 Quality reporting for performance measurement and provider feedback is the backbone of meaningful use of health IT, David Blumenthal, MD, National Health IT Coordinator, told attendees of a National Quality Forum conference last week.
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Careful planning will serve CIPA’s EHR implementation well
Date: Aug 31, 2009 With a $1 million grant from the Medical Society of the State of New York
Make room for open-source EHRs
Date: Aug 24, 2009 Mainstream support for open-source electronic health records is gaining ground. And that's a good thing for physicians.
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