May 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
blog
An opinion piece from Jonathan Bush, the CEO, President, and Chairman of the Board of athenahealth Inc. recently caught my attention. Bush was advocating for better venture capital investment in healthcare IT and made a pertinent point about how fee-for-service models of reimbursement have stifled innovation.
May 17, 2013 Gabriel Perna
news
According to a recent report from the Orem, Utah-based research firm, KLAS, pressures from meaningful use under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) as well as other regulatory changes are prompting providers to pull back on extensive IT outsourcing (EITO), as they seek greater control over IT systems within their organization.
May 16, 2013 Gabriel Perna
article
This past year has been a roller-coaster ride for one of the industry’s best-known EHR vendors. Can new CEO Paul Black re-stabilize Allscripts in 2013 and beyond? The company is moving ahead with a focus on population health management, interoperability, and open architecture, in an effort to make sure the answer to that question is a resounding yes.
May 14, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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A bipartisan call came from the Senate Finance Committee this week, asking healthcare providers for input on how to fix the “broken” Medicare payment system. “The current Medicare physician payment system is inefficient and needs to go,” Senator Max Baucus (D-Mont.) said.
May 13, 2013 Mark Hagland
blog
The May 6 announcement that the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) was calling for a one-year extension of Stage 2 of meaningful use has pushed the association deeper into the waters of policy and regulatory development. Can CHIME avoid becoming involved in partisan politics in its new push on MU?
May 12, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
On April 25, the Washington, D.C.-based center for Studying Health System Change (HSC) released a new policy analysis, entitled "Hospital Quality Reporting: Separating the Signal from the Noise," written by two HSC researchers. The primary goal of the researchers was to help healthcare purchasers look at what has been effective in outcomes measurement in healthcare. But the implications for CIOs, CMIOs, and other healthcare IT leaders are many.
May 8, 2013 Jeff Smith, Director of Public Policy at CHIME
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A bill was introduced this week in the House of Representatives that would “prohibit the Secretary of Health and Human Services replacing ICD-9 with ICD-10 in implementing the HIPAA code set standards.” Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) has previously lambasted the cost, bureaucracy and redundancy of ICD-10, but this is the first legislative bill introduced since an August 2012 final rule set an Oct. 1, 2014 compliance date.
April 25, 2013 John DeGaspari
blog
The findings of a comprehensive data breach report released by Verizon this week suggests that no industry is immune to cybercrime, and that the experiences of other affected industries can provide lessons for healthcare providers to safeguard their data.
April 24, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
The lead medical informaticists in hospitals, medical groups, and health systems are juggling an unprecedented number of "menu" items on their to-do lists these days. Which are the most strategically important? And do the CMIOs in those positions have what it takes to deliver the goods? Healthcare Informatics asked a virtual roundtable of industry-leading CMIOs for their perspectives.
April 23, 2013 Mark Hagland
article
At a time when virtually everyone in healthcare and healthcare IT is incredibly busy, Fletcher Allen's Chuck Podesta is still busier than most. Podesta's role is evolving forward, as his organization expands, establishes an ACO, and participates in two regional HIEs. What lessons are being learned at an organization at the vanguard in healthcare transformation?
March 14, 2013 Gabriel Perna and Mark Hagland
news
According to a study, recently appearing in an issue of the journal Health Affairs, implementing an electronic health record (EHR) could to lead to revenue loss. The authors of the report studied 49 community practices in a large EHR pilot through the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative, and found that the average physician lost $43,743 over five years and just 27 percent of practices would have achieved a positive return on investment.
March 12, 2013 Mark Hagland
news
On Wednesday, March 6, in an appearance at the HIMSS Conference in New Orleans, Marilyn Tavenner, R.N. , acting administrator of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) revealed during a presentation at the conference that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)/Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) would delay the release of a preliminary rule for Stage 3 of meaningful use under HITECH until after the end of calendar year 2013, in order for CMS and ONC officials to be able to “digest” input and feedback from healthcare leaders on lessons being learned in Stage 2 of MU. What do you think? Please take our poll!
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