CMS shut down the Medicare & Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Registration and Attestation System to correct an error that is preventing eligible professionals (EPs) from claiming an exclusion for Measure 1 of the Patient Electronic Access Objective (referred to as 8A in the attestation system).
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By Irv H. Lichtenwald – Imagine you’re living in Brooklyn and you have a medical emergency. If the hospital nearest you, say Lutheran Medical Center, were to close, you could go to Maimonides or New York Methodist a short taxi or ambulance ride away. Not so in rural US.
By Robert Freedman – In 2015, the OIG recovered more than $3B in audit and investigative receivables as a result of their oversight activities. That’s great news for taxpayers but not so wonderful for the many hundreds of provider organizations that had to dip into their shrinking revenues to come up with these repayments.
By Robert Rowley MD – The recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine, “Time for a Patient-Driven Health Information Economy?” presents a good overview of the need for, and hurdles in achieving, a unified patient-centered data platform that can be accessed from everyone taking care of the patient.
By William Hyman – Usability, or lack thereof, has been one of the significant complaints about EHRs throughout the Meaningful Use era. Too hard to get information in, too easy to get wrong information in, too disruptive to work flow, too hard to see what information is there, excessive pop-ups, etc.
By Lucia Savage & Aja Brooks – This post summarizes the new ONC fact sheets on HIPAA Permitted Uses and Disclosures for exchange (Treatment and Health Care Operations), developed in conjunction with the Office for Civil Rights.
By Amy Helwig MD & Edwin Lomotan MD – Health information technology (HIT) has been shown to improve patient safety, especially with processes and applications that improve clinicians’ decisionmaking, documentation, and communication.
By John Halamka MD – As I have written about previously, CIOs across the country are telling me that expectations for IT delivery are at an all time high. More must be delivered faster, cheaper, and with greater usability.
This week’s HIE rundown includes: Cal INDEX and Orion Health ‘Future Proofing’ first ever payer-led HIE, Jitterbit releases healthcare interoperability platform and solutions designed to improve patient care, and Stanford Health Care launches custom android MyHealth mobile app.