MU Audits Are Coming
Ask Joy: This Week – Meaningful Use Audits – Prepare Yourself One of the most common questions I hear from doctors is when they’re getting ready…
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ICD-10 GEM May not be Flawless
But it’s Still Highly Valuable Chris Schremser, Chief Technology Officer, IT Enterprise Infrastructure, ZirMed. With the mandatory ICD-10 deadline little more than a year away, healthcare…
Scanning and Your EHR Implementation
Scanning is an Important Part of an EHR Implementation For small practices, moving from a paper medical record system to an electronic medical record system,…
Gastroenterology: Advice for Climbing the MU Mountain
Ask Joy: This Week – Gastroenterology: Advice for Climbing the MU Mountain Meaningful Use Stage 1 This week’s question comes from in from a Practice…
Are You Getting Good Advice from Your Clinical Decision Support Systems?
Electronic Bad Advice COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Meaningful Use requires the…
New Report Shows Hospitals Ready to Meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use
HIMSS Analytics Report: More Than 60% of US Hospitals Ready to Meet Stage 2 Meaningful Use in 2014 According to data collected through June 2013…
Patient Consent for Electronic Health Information Exchange
HealthIT.gov Add Meaningful Consent Tools HHS announced the launch of an online resource to help health care providers effectively engage patients in choosing how they want their…
CMS Celebrates National Health IT Week
CMS Events this Week The 8th Annual National Health IT Week this year will be September 16–20, 2013. The week raises awareness of Health Information Technology’s power…
Patient Portals and EHRs: Generating Reports
Ask Joy: This Week – Patient Electronic Access Measures Some of the details of Meaningful Use Stage 2 are proving to be quite tricky. This week…