November 5, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The ONC's deputy national coordinator for programs and policy repeatedly emphasized the links between the requirements under the meaningful use program and the federal government’s broader goals for healthcare reform and population health.
October 26, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) posted the final Clinical Quality Measures (CQMS) for 2014 on its website, the government agency reported. CQMs will change in 2014 for providers, and those that are eligible for meaningful use, either Stage 1 or Stage 2, will have included the new criteria in their EHRs, CMS says.
October 18, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
In a letter to Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, four Republican senators expressed concerns over several issues related to the adoption of EHRs through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office for the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC)’s meaningful use program. This comes only a few weeks after House Republicans penned a letter to Sebelius asking for a suspension to the Meaningful Use program until
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
blog
Perhaps the thought was inescapable in the context of the current presidential election campaign going on right now; after all, the second presidential debate, in which a very engaged pair of presidential candidates had sparred very intensely over a wide range of topics, had just taken place the night before. But I couldn't help thinking about Farzad Mostashari, M.D., as speaking like a political leader when he appeared at the CHIME Fall forum on Wednesday, Oct. 17-and I mean that in a good way.
October 17, 2012 Mark Hagland
article
The National Coordinator for Health IT uses the opportunity to speak to CHIME Fall Forum attendees to exhort his audience forward in the meaningful use process under the banner of reforming the healthcare system for the benefit of patients, families, communities, and the broader society.
October 16, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
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CHIME members voiced their concern this week with congressional proposals to “immediately suspend” EHR incentive payments. In an Oct. 4 letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Ways & Means Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI-4), Energy & Commerce Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI-6), Ways & Means Health Subcommittee Chair Wally Herger (R-CA-2) and Energy & Commerce Health Subcommittee Chair Joe Pitts (R-PA-16) voice concern that the incentive payments were being wasted because many providers continue to lack interoperability.
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.
October 9, 2012 Jeff Smith, Assistant Director of Advocacy at CHIME
article
This week, the Federal Advisory Health IT Policy Committee heard from a handful of workgroups and the Privacy Tiger Team about their thoughts on Stage 3 Meaningful Use, set to hit the streets sometime in 2016. For those of you who might think it a little premature to think about Stage 3, the Corner believes there’s no time like the present.
October 5, 2012 Gabriel Perna
news
Recently, House Republicans sent a letter to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking her to suspend the payments related to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Electronic Health Record (EHR) Meaningful Use Incentive program. The House republicans say HHS is “squandering taxpayer dollars by asking little of providers in return for incentive payments.”
October 3, 2012
news
The National Library of Medicine (NLM), the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), have announced that the trio of government agencies will soon launch the NLM Value Set Authority Center (VSAC). This will provide downloadable access to all official versions of vocabulary Value Sets contained in Clinical Quality Measures that support Meaningful Use Stage 2.
October 3, 2012 David Raths
article
The federal Health IT Policy Committee met Oct. 3 to fine-tune some meaningful use Stage 3 recommendations as it prepares to seek comments from stakeholders in November. Providers and health IT vendors will have until Dec. 21 to offer feedback on the feasibility of adopting the measures in healthcare settings.
September 28, 2012 Joe Bormel
blog
In Part 1 of this blog, we discussed the fact that the approaches we used to achieve Stage 1 of Meaningful Use may not be sufficient to move forward to achieve Stage 2. Here in the final installment, I’ll provide some detailed examples of why scalability will be a key to success in Stage 2. And in the end, the most important factors will be understanding and communicating your own local practice experience.
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