By William Hersh MD – The HIT world was shaken to its core by Andy Slavitt, Acting Administrator of CMS, who announced that the CMS Meaningful Use program was over. More precisely, he stated, “The Meaningful Use program as it has existed, will now be effectively over and replaced with something better.”
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By Karen B. DeSalvo & Lucia Savage – In order to effectively manage their health, individuals need to be able to access and use their health information when, where, and how they want, including sending it to the people and tools helping them become or stay healthy.
By Matt Fisher – With the start of a new year, it seems like a good time to take stock of privacy of healthcare information, which is currently a very hot topic. As was discussed in great detail, 2015 saw a continuing explosion of breaches concerning healthcare information, which put both privacy and security in the limelight.
Now that the holidays are behind us and the new year is upon us, we can settle in to what’s in store. Healthcare costs, interoperability, EHRs, and patient engagement are not going anywhere and will continue to be in the spotlight. Here are what some of the the leaders in the industry are expecting this year.
This week’s HIE rundown includes: eHealth Technologies & Baystate Health announce expansion of HIE Services, drchrono partners with ZocDoc to sync medical records & online appointment booking, and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles achieves electronic medical records milestone.
By Steve Spearman – Once upon a time, all a healthcare organization needed to do to ensure that its vendors and subcontractors would keep data secure was to require it in their contractual agreement. However OCR’s recent efforts to strengthen what it believes could be the weakest link in HIPAA compliance and PHI security: vendors and subcontractors.
A letter from organizations to HHS on January 14, 2016. On behalf of the organizations, we are writing to express our concerns with the Meaningful Use (MU) program and the current state of electronic health records (EHRs).
By Robert Rowley, MD – Medicine is often described as both an art and a science. One might think that the “science of medicine” should be fairly straightforward, driven by findings from clinical studies and evidence-based protocols derived from such findings.
Findings from the 2016 HIMSS Health Information Technology (IT) Value survey found that 88 percent of organizations with advanced EHR environments identified at least one positive outcome from their use of an EHR, with 83 percent reporting benefits in Clinical Staff Quality Performance.