By Vaishali Patel & Jordan Everson – The information blocking regulations at 45 CFR Part 171 began to apply to health care providers, health IT developers of certified health IT, health information exchanges, and health information networks on April 5, 2021, per ONC’s recent interim final rule.
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By Baha Zeidan – Numbers don’t lie; according to a recent Mayo Clinic Proceedings article, a cross-sectional survey of nearly 900 US physicians from all specialty disciplines assessed the useability of their EHRs using the System Usability Scale, and the mean SUS score was an appalling 45.9 out of 100.
By Art Gross – You know that your data is valuable. It might not be in the obvious way, and you might be unaware that it is the collective data that provides hackers with more power over you. Proposed changes to the HIPAA Privacy Rule might lead to an inadvertent way of exposing that patient data.
By Eric Demers – In the quest to make administrative work automated, payers and intermediaries for years have been developing their own homegrown systems to get closer to fully electronic processes for provider data management and revenue cycle management.
By Bryan Dickerson – Over the past year and a half, reactivity in all areas of operations within the healthcare system has had significant impacts to both the nurse and patient experience. One of the areas hit the hardest during the pandemic have been the nurses themselves.
By Dr. Leo P. Langlois – Chronic disease management continues to be one of the greatest healthcare challenges for providers. As chronic diseases continue to overwhelm our health system, providers are now looking at ways they can improve their efforts in a way that the quality of care being delivered is not negatively impacted.
By Steven Posnack MS MHS – Over six years ago, ONC embarked with all of you on an ambitious initiative to create a shared, nationwide interoperability roadmap (the Roadmap). In typical fashion, we produced a draft, many of you shared your comments (about this time in 2015), and we released the final Roadmap in October, 2015.
By Noam N. Levey – The federal government must aggressively bolster primary care and connect more Americans with a dedicated source of care, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine warn in a major report that sounds the alarm about an endangered foundation of the U.S. health system.
By Matt Fisher – Terms that emerge together in healthcare can often be thrown around interchangeably without fully appreciating the differences and nuances between each of the terms. Equating concepts in this way (consider electronic medical record and electronic health record, they are different) leads to confusion inside and outside of the industry.