By William Hersh – As in all complex endeavors, the push for a healthcare system underpinned by structured and interoperable electronic health record (EHR) data has turned out to be more complicated than we might have anticipated when acceleration of EHR adoption was begun about a decade ago.
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By Steve Spearman – For EPs and EHs, attesting to Meaningful Use can have a huge financial impact. When an organization attests, they are required to satisfy a number of objectives and associated measures demonstrating the meaningful use of certified EHR technology.
By John Halamka – BIDMC has self-developed its core clinical information systems for many years. We certified all our applications for the 2011 and 2014 ONC criteria, attesting to Meaningful Use Stage 1 and 2 in every appropriate year. BIDMC has hundreds of person-years invested in our web-based, cloud-hosted in-patient and out-patient applications.
By John Halamka, MD – The February HIT Standards Committee was a joint meeting with the HIT Policy Committee to align the policy and technology work ahead in 2015.
By Bakul Patel & Jeffrey Shuren – Engaged patients! Quantified self! Lifelogging! These buzzwords describe an exciting technology-based, patient-centered approach to living healthier. The myriad of systems that record, share, and use personal and health data have become a significant help for many of us by putting information at our fingertips to use when and where we think it might help promote a healthy lifestyle. The ultimate goal of these products is to improve our quality of life.
By Matt Gretczko – There has been a lot of dialogue lately regarding CMS’s potential expansion of a star rating system to providers. Not surprisingly, it is being rather heavily opposed.
By John Halamka, MD – CMS announced their intent to update the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs for 2015 and beyond. ONC released the Interoperability Roadmap and the Standards Advisory. A busy week. What does it all mean?
By Beth Kelly – Now that the 2015 Consumer Electronics Show is over, the tech world is buzzing over the latest and greatest products that were debuted and displayed there by companies big and small. One trend that has only grown in recent years at CES is the presence of health technology at the show and it’s slowly becoming a part of mainstream consumers’ everyday life.
By Tricia Lee Wilkins & Meghan Gabriel – Over the past couple of years, EPCS – the electronic prescribing of controlled substances – has increased dramatically. This has potential benefits for both patients and health care system costs.