By Russel S. Krengel – The home care industry, in its various forms, represents an $82 billion market with a population of potential customers that is growing by the minute. In fact, within the next five years, 20 percent of Americans will be eligible for Medicare services and many of them will avail themselves of home health services that will be funded by Medicare.
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By Matthew Swain/Program Analyst, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Analysis , Kory Mertz/Challenge Grant Director , and Kristina Celentano/Project Officer, Office of Programs & Engagement We…
By Tony Panjamapirom, PhD – The industry news is full of disparaging talk about the health of the EHR Incentive Programs (i.e., meaningful use), particularly the low number of Stage 2 attestations. While some statistics show that only 35% of the nation’s hospitals have met Stage 2 meaningful use requirements, further analysis reveals a different story.
Last March, the ONC HIT Policy committee submitted recommendations for Stage 3 of the EHR Incentive programs. Just hours before the new year, HHS/CMS submitted…
Say what you will about the pains of implementing an EHR or meeting the requirements for Meaningful Use. I’ll grant you that there are hiccups, roadblocks, stumbling points on the path to going digital. No doubt. But, you can’t deny that data doesn’t lie and when we measure data, we can manage it.
Here is what is happening to make health information exchange happen. Santé and Encore connect with Inofile Kno2. e-MDs is first EHR to connect to Kansas registry. SHIN-NY joins with Healthix for patient alert system.
The Meaningful Use (MU) dice are rolling and tumbling right now and they just might come up “box cars” (double sixes). The odds are starting to look good for a reprieve for those eligible providers who are hoping to get a roll back on the full year requirements for MU in 2015. I put the odds at greater than 50%.
Meaningful Use (MU) audits will increase in 2015 and a growing area of concern for eligible hospitals and professionals is just now surfacing after 4…
By John Halamka – 2014 was quite a year. Thinking back to December 2013, I cannot believe that so much has happened. Let’s take a look at the major HIT events that shaped 2014 and what they portend for 2015.