CMS Adds Resources to Help Providers Prepare for an EHR Incentive Audit
What Providers Need to Know about EHR Incentive Audits The following is a communication sent out today from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services…
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Advances in Speech Recognition Technology for Use in the EHR Environment
It’s not your father’s dictation machine. In the 1960s and 1970s you most likely found your doctor at the end of the day in their…
Boosting Physician Productivity in Context of the EHR
Speech recognition and other technologies can improve physician productivity in EHR adoption Dr. Andres Jimenez CEO of ImplementHIT My team recently conducted an in-depth analysis on…
Health IT Business News Recap – April 7, 2013
This Week’s Health IT Business News At HIMSS13 in New Orleans last month one of the biggest stories, if not the biggest, was the announcement…
Privacy Trust Framework Outlines Key Principles for Protecting Patient Data
Patient Privacy Rights Framework Publishes Set of 75 Auditable Criteria Austin, TX – Patient Privacy Rights (PPR) has released the publication of its Privacy Trust…
DirectTrust, EHNAC to work with ONC to advance direct exchange of health information
Exemplar HIE Governance Entities Announced In the fall of 2012 the ONC decided that now is not the time for regulations on health information exchange governance. They…
Senate Confirmation Hearing for Acting CMS Administrator Tavenner Set
Scheduled Hearing Set for Tuesday The Senate Finance Committee has announced it has scheduled a hearing next Tuesday on the long-awaited confirmation of acting CMS…
Is new EHR vendor-led coalition looking to replace HIEs?
HIT Policy Committee Questions CommonWell Goals By Diana Manos, Government HealthIT At a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on April 3, National Coordinator for Health…
Could New Cancer Care Database Be a ‘Game Changer’ for Medicine?
by Kate Ackerman iHealthBeat Managing Editor Experts say an announcement made last week by the American Society of Clinical Oncology could have significant implications for…