May 8, 2012 David Raths
blog
Consumer queries about the accuracy and completeness of patient records are only expected to grow. Some health systems are working on ways to include patient feedback, but no standard approach has yet emerged.
May 7, 2012
news
The Chicago-based Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) has submitted its comments to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in response to the proposed rule of Stage 2 of Meaningful Use. Among the organization’s numerous comments is a request that the government incorporate a 90- to 180-day reporting period for Year 1 of Stage 2 in 2014.
May 4, 2012 David Raths
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On May 17, a group of 80 stakeholder organizations will come together in Washington, D.C., for a two-day meeting to discuss plans for a nationwide learning health system. “This meeting could be for healthcare what the Dumbarton Oaks meeting was for the United Nations,” said Charles Friedman, Ph.D., director of the Health Informatics Program in the University of Michigan Schools of Information and Public Health & former chief scientific officer for the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
April 18, 2012 Jennifer Prestigiacomo
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On April 17 at New York Ideas 2012: Questions For America in a Year of Choice, industry leaders agreed that regardless of whether or not if the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is ultimately struck down by the Supreme Court, reform would have to take place on both the payment and delivery sides of healthcare to remain sustainable. New York Ideas is a day-and-a-half long forum in New York City that assembles a wide variety of leaders to take on issues like the economy, education, global politics, and healthcare through interviews, discussions, and debates.
April 17, 2012
news
At the ICD-10 Summit, sponsored by the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA), Dr. Doug Fridsma, director of the Office of Standards and Interoperability of the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) remarked how the percentage of doctors using EHRs has doubled over the past two years.
April 9, 2012
blog
.....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 5, 2012 Eric Mueller, Services President, WPC
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Healthcare IT leaders may well be under a misapprehension about their executed business associate agreements, believing that those agreements will protect them in the event a patient's personal health information is compromised by outside parties. Their confidence is ill-founded, given that the HITECH Act's HIPAA revisions place the onus firmly on providers for any breaches caused by their business associates or by those business associates' subcontractors.
March 19, 2012 David Raths
blog
The patient engagement measure that requires that 10 percent of patients actually have to look at their data, download it, or transmit it to others isn't sitting well with providers.
February 24, 2012 David Raths
blog
Even though organizations have known that patient portals were going to be required, this ups the ante quite a bit. I think providers are gong to be unhappy with the requirement that makes them responsible for making sure that 10 percent of patients view or download health information.
February 22, 2012 Mark Hagland
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Amid the usual swirl of the HIMSS Conference, the false-alarm rumor Wednesday morning that Farzad Mostashari, M.D., the national coordinator for health IT, was set to release the proposed rule for stage 2 of meaningful use, caused confusion and at least mild panic among many. As it turned out (see “BREAKING: Mostashari Highlights Stage 2 Meaningful Use Requirements”), Dr. Mostshari offered his audience the broad outlines of stage 2 this morning, without formally releasing the rule. It was in some ways a typical HIMSS Conference day, I suppose!
February 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
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During the Monday session on performance measurement and CDS, Paul Tang, M.D., vice president and chief medical officer of Palo Alto Medical Foundation and is vice chair of the federal Health IT Policy Committee, gave his perspective on the approach taken with Stage 1 meaningful use, and the direction for future stages.
February 21, 2012 John DeGaspari
blog
Listening to the sessions on performance measurement on Monday, I was impressed by the central role that performance measurement plays in care improvement. Charlene Underwood, chair of the HIMSS Board of directors, who also serves as director of government and industry affairs at Siemens Healthcare, acknowledges that the challenge of applying data to improver care is a difficult one, but she also believes that health providers are up to the task.
