May 8, 2012
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Along with the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS), the American Hospital Association (AHA), and the American Medical Association (AMA), the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) have submitted its comments on the proposed rule of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS).
May 8, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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Despite a fairly constant flurry of news clippings regarding federal efforts to combat fraud in Medicare and Medicaid, prominent Senators want more “tangible results” from CMS to improve program integrity...Comments filed with both the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) identified concerns related to the proposed Stage 2 EHR reporting period as well as CMS’ varying approach to clinical quality measures (CQMs).
May 8, 2012
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The Chicago-based American Medical Association (AMA) officially submitted its comments this week on the proposed rule for Stage 2 of the Medicare/Medicaid meaningful use electronic health record (EHR) program. Overall, the association said it was supportive of widespread adoption and meaningful use of EHRs by physicians, but thought the Stage 2 proposal was too cumbersome and would make successful physician participation extremely difficult.
May 1, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Tucked away inside President Obama’s proposed fiscal 2013 year budget are some hopeful statistics around electronic health record adoption, particularly recent figures around office-based physicians' EHR adoption, and the assist that doctors are getting from the federal government's regional extension centers (RECs). Are we reaching an important turning point on the long journey towards the new healthcare?
April 26, 2012 David Raths
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About a year ago, researchers at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School launched an intriguing research project to study what would happen if patients had regular access to their primary care physicians’ notes about their visits. On April 25, the investigators discussed some of their findings during a National eHealth Collaborative webinar.
April 24, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has published corrections to its Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposed rule in the Federal Register. Several of the changes are clerical corrections and do not substantively change the proposed measures and objectives. During a hearing this week, the first Congress has held since before Easter, the Senate Health, Education, Labor & Pensions Committee, introduced the Food and Drug Administration Safety and Innovation Act.
April 24, 2012
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A recent poll from KPMG, an audit, tax and advisory services firm, suggests many business administrators at hospitals and health systems are expressing doubt on whether or not they can meet the new Stage 2 meaningful use requirements of EHR compliance standards. Less than half of those surveyed (48 percent) in the KPMG poll last month said they were confident in their organization’s level of readiness to meet Stage 1 meaningful use requirements.
April 18, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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One of healthcare’s greatest mysteries these days is patient engagement. It’s a term that’s been thrown around by providers, government agencies, insurers, and pretty much any stakeholder involved in the improvement of the industry. Yet, even though Meaningful Use Stage 2 is loaded with patient engagement initiatives, some, like David Chase, CEO of Avado.com, a start-up out of Bellvue, Wash.
April 9, 2012
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.....only clinician involvement can orchestrates the process by which clinicians are “integrated” in the process of delivery of quality-centered care. An obstructionist clinician team can derail an otherwise successful HIT adoption project and/or your EHR application implementation.
April 9, 2012
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has posted the clinical quality measures for Stage 2 under meaningful use of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act/Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (ARRA/HITECH). This comes approximately one month after CMS posted the proposed rules for Stage 2 around the HIMSS12 conference.
April 5, 2012 David Raths
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The Health IT Policy Committee plans to submit its response to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ meaningful use Stage 2 Notice of Proposed Rule-Marking (NPRM) by May 7. At its April 4 meeting it heard from several of its work groups about suggested tweaks and recommendations. Paul Tang, M.D., of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, and Columbia University’s George Hripcsak, M.D., co-chairs of the meaningful use work group, addressed several key issues.
April 4, 2012
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I find it ironic that after investing money and effort in an EMR implementation, many organizations are still handing out paper forms to collect history, insurance updates and HIPAA acknowledgements.
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