By Irv H. Lichtenwald – None of us would have the jobs we currently occupy without some ability to focus on details. Running a company, developing IT systems, managing a hospital, seeing patients and evaluating their concerns—all require the ability to dig deep and identify root causes and effective solutions.
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By Alex Tate – If you are considering a program to help you with your electronic health records then you will most likely be doing some research. You are going to find that there are a number of programs available. Therefore, it can be difficult to determine which one will actually be the very best choice.
By Steve Spearman – Earlier this summer, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a paper titled Impact of the HITECH act on physicians’ adoption of electronic health records, that analyzed how well HITECH has incentivized doctors to make the leap into EHR.
The path to transitioning to ICD-10 to minimize practice disruptions and claim denials will not be easy. We reached out to ZirMed, to ask them to give us some tips to help providers make a successful transition. You can check out their nine tips,
The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses what our industry may look like going forward post the HITECH era.
By Paul J. Rosenbluth – It Could Come Back to Bite You in Your Bottom Line! Automating extraction of data from EHRs is an excellent idea. Done right, it can provide a complete data set, something not possible with the sampling methods used in the current labor-intensive hand extraction used for reporting many hospital quality measures.
Health Catalyst and Partners HealthCare have established a $30 million initiative to enable the development of innovative population health management strategies and facilitate the transfer of the knowledge generated to other health care providers.
ONC released new version of the Health IT Strategic Plan 2015-2020. This is the new blueprint to improve the health IT infrastructure to help transform health care delivery, improve individual and community health and support a responsive, evolving health IT ecosystem that puts individuals at the center of care.
By Samantha Sawdon – Electronic Health Records (EHRs) were originally created for the purposes of charting and practice management coordination. However, the combination of expanding practice needs and increasing federal mandates has forced the EHR market to evolve.