December 27, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Happy New Year! In this Healthcare Informatics podcast, Jason Fortin, senior advisor at Impact Advisors, talks about Stage 2 of meaningful use. Fortin discusses talks about what should be at the top of providers’ checklist when it comes to stage 2 at the beginning of the year.
December 20, 2012 John DeGaspari
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Hospitals and health systems are only somewhat confident in their organization’s level of readiness to meet meaningful use Stage 2 standards for electronic health records (EHR), and most see training and change management efforts as their biggest compliance challenge, according to the results of a poll conducted by KPMG LLP. The results reflect responses from more than 140 hospital and health system administrators.
December 19, 2012 Rajiv Leventhal
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The United States Healthcare Information Knowledgebase (USHIK) has added recently published information on meaningful use clinical quality measures and their associated value sets as well as the meaningful use core and menu objectives.
December 18, 2012 Mark Hagland
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On Dec. 17, the federal Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) released the Final 2014 Test Method containing the processes and tools for testing electronic health records as part of the meaningful use process under the HITECH Act.
December 14, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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According to a report from the federal Government Accountability Organization (GAO), acute care hospitals were 1.7 times more likely and children's hospitals were 1.6 times more likely to have been awarded a Medicaid EHR incentive payment for 2011, when compared to critical access hospitals. The report compared the various hospitals that have received meaningful use payments in 2011, finding overall 1,964 hospitals and 45,962 professionals were awarded a total of approximately $2.7 billion in Medicaid EHR incentive payments for 2011.
December 12, 2012 David Raths
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Kicking off the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT’s (ONC) third annual meeting in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 12, Farzad Mostashari, M.D., told attendees that despite all the progress they have made to transform the healthcare system, the journey is really just beginning.
December 6, 2012 Mark Hagland
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The federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced modest changes to some of the technical requirements under Stage 2 of the meaningful use process under the HITECH Act. In an interim rule set to be published Dec. 7, CMS announced that it was replacing a small number of standards with new versions, and changing or exempting some meaningful use measures to allow providers to fulfill them in a more flexible way.
November 28, 2012 David Raths
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Among key meaningful use challenges for physician offices are vendor product nuances, workflows that must be redesigned, and staff roles that needed to be redefined.
November 20, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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A House subcommittee on Science, Space and Technology held a hearing this week on Meaningful Use. The focus on Meaningful Use was to ask the question, "has the program truly been meaningful?" The response from all witness, which included ONC National Coordinator Dr. Farzad Mostashari and Intermountain VP & CIO Marc Probst, was a resounding "Yes."
November 20, 2012 David Raths
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Despite the budgetary and work force challenges rural hospitals face, they are making steady progress on health information technology adoption. Between 2009 and 2011 the rural provider EHR adoption rate more than doubled, and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has set an ambitious goal of 1,000 rural hospitals becoming meaningful users of health IT by the end of 2014.
November 9, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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Stage 2 Final Rule is barely in the books, and already there is one committee from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) that is looking ahead to Stage 3. The Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC), a federal advisory committee that aims to advise the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on federal HIT policy issues, recently released its recommendations for Stage 3 of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR meaningful use (MU) incentive program.
November 6, 2012 Gabriel Perna
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The Office for the Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) has released an updated version of its “quick reference grids," which aim to help providers understand what they have to do successfully attest to meaningful use by putting the objectives in one place. ONC released two separate 2014 Meaningful Use Quick Reference Grids; one for Stage 1 and one for Stage 2.
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