EHR Incentive Audits to Escalate
EHR Incentive Audits, Now Pre-Payment by Jim Tate Twitter: @JimTate The calls keep coming in. Hospitals, providers, vendors, consultants, and of course the occasional journalist….
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Getting More Health Out of Health IT
COMMENTARY by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn Twitter: @healthpopuli How can we get more health out of health IT? Getting more patients involved in their own health will…
AHIMA Calls for Set of National Guidelines for Visit Code Reporting
Comments on CMS’ Proposed Payment Systems and Quality Reporting Programs Implementation of national guidelines for reporting hospital outpatient clinic visits would lead to standardized and…
Patient Portals and EHRs: Generating Reports
Ask Joy: This Week –Â Patient Electronic Access Measures Some of the details of Meaningful Use Stage 2 are proving to be quite tricky. This week…
Health IT Business News – Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Today’s Business News Quality Systems, Inc. announced it has acquired Mirth Corporation, a global leader in health information technology that helps clients achieve interoperability. The acquisition…
ONC Launches Patient Matching Initiative
Lee Stevens /Â Policy Director, State HIE Program As part of our ongoing effort to improve patient matching across disparate systems, we are beginning a collaborative…
AMA Offers Physicians Help Complying with Revised HIPAA Regulations
Provides Documents for Updating Existing HIPAA Policies The American Medical Association (AMA) announced it is offering a new toolkit to help physicians navigate the sweeping…
Electronic Health Records Linked to Improved Care for Patients With Diabetes
Study part of Kaiser Permanente’s ongoing work to better understand how EHRs affect clinical care The use of electronic health records in clinical settings was…
Is Meaningful Use Stifling Innovation in Health IT?
COMMENTARY Keith Boone, Healthcare Standards Twitter @Motorcycle_Guy I write this post after reading Margalit Gur-Arie’s excellent post on Alternative Health IT. Â She’s one of those…