Senate Bill to Expand Medicaid Eligibility for HITECH
MITECH Act Introduced in Senate Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts has introduced the Medicaid Information Technology to Enhance Community Health (MITECH) Act in Senate bill…
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Electronically Exchanging Sensitive Health Information
Data Segmentation for Privacy Initiative Demonstration An S&I Initiative focuses on an a single issue with goals and outcomes that will improve healthcare delivery through…
HIE End Goal – Implementation and Interoperability
Health Information Exchange: From Standards to Practice By David Muntz, MBA / Principal Deputy National Coordinator for Health IT The recent release of the Stage 2 Meaningful…
Certification Criteria Test Procedures Available for Public Comment
2 Waves Now Released for Public Review and Comment On Tuesday, September 4th, the Health Information Technology: Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic…
Nationwide Health Information Network and Exchange
NwHIN vs NHIN The nationwide health information network known as NwHIN is a set of standards, services and policies that enable secure health information exchange…
Nationwide Health Information Network Comes of Age
Healtheway to support eHealth Exchange By Brian Ahier, Healthcare, Technology& Government 2.0 The Nationwide Health Information Network Exchange (NwHIN Exchange, or just Exchange) has been…
Stage 2 Final Rule: Standards and Certification
Digesting the ONC Standards and Certification Final Rule My Friday post contained an error (see this post below). Like Icarus I flew too close to the…
Health Information Exchange Criteria Stage 2 Meaningful Use
HIE in Stage 2 On MU Live! this week our hosts, Jim Tate and Roberta Mullin, interviewed John Tempesco. John is a subject matter expert…
Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) in Stage 2
Dissecting Stage 2 of EHR Adoption The new CMS rule for the EHR Incentive Programs defines the new objectives as the program moves into stage…