December 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The University of Kentucky has created a model for electronic health record (EHR) reporting of cancer cases to the state’s cancer data registry, it recently announced, while touting the link as the first effort of its kind in the nation. According to the researchers responsible for the model, it allows Kentucky oncologists and other providers to feed clinical data to the Kentucky Cancer Registry in real-time.
December 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a report from researchers at the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), which is affiliated with the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of office-based physicians using electronic health records (EHRs) has risen steadily since the 2009 enactment of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH). The report, “Use and Characteristics of Electronic Health Record Systems Among Office-based Physician Practices: United States, 2001-2012,” says that 72 percent of office-based physicians used any electronic medical record (EMR) or EHR systems, up from 48 percent in 2009.
November 21, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
Pediatricians are not as up to par in the usage of EHRs as some of their fellow doctors, a recent survey led by researchers at Seattle Children's Hospital and East Carolina University with accompanying data from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), revealed. According to the researchers, pediatricians are up to two years behind the overall rate of EHR adoption, while those that have systems are without basic functionality.
November 19, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
Less than a week after the National Basketball Association announced plans to use Cerner’s EHR for the foreseeable future, the National Football League (NFL) and eClinicalWorks have publicized a similar arrangement. The sports league will reportedly (Source: The Boston Globe) be paying $7-10 million to use an EHR from the Westborough, Mass.-based software provider up to at least 10 years.
November 16, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has released the beta version of certification tool, Cypress, which tests EHRs and EHR modules in calculating Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). ONC says its certification program "provides a defined process" to ensure certificated EHRs meet the adopted standards and criteria of meaningful use.
November 15, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The National Basketball Association (NBA) is going to use an integrated electronic platform from the Kansas City, Mo.-based health IT vendor Cerner, the company recently announced. The platform will aim to centralize the medical record for every athlete in the league and allow for the league’s trainers and doctors to integrate an athlete’s personal health information into one cloud-based location.
November 15, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
A new study from the Commonwealth Fund and Harris Interactive has found that physicians from the United States have made progress in adopting EHRs when compared to similarly developed countries. The study compared the attitudes and thoughts of primary care physicians from the US, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
October 29, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
article
News broke last week during CHIME’s Fall Forum that the HHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) had circulated a survey to hospitals that had demonstrated Meaningful Use. The OIG's review of the incentive program and potentially inappropriate Medicare payments related to EHR use are both included in its recently issued fiscal 2013 work plan, according to public officials.
October 27, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
Ronald N. Riner, M.D., chief medical officer of Health Management Associates, a hospital management company that manages smaller community hospitals and physician practices in 15 states, reflects on the challenges and opportunities inherent in moving forward on practice management and EHRs across a widely diffuse nationwide health system
October 23, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
At the MGMA Annual Conference, speakers embedded an implicit acknowledgement of the critical role of healthcare information technology and analytics into their discussions of everything from ACO development to HIE participation.
October 16, 2012 Joe Bormel
blog
More than 214 people have been diagnosed with meningitis after receiving a tainted injection. The drug was contaminated with a fungus. Meanwhile, there's been another contamination event going on in the media related to healthcare IT. The writers of two articles conclude the benefits of HCIT are wildly overblown and represent a fanciful initiative that should be shut down. We look into this meningitis outbreak and its HCIT implications to help disprove their conclusions.
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