Patient Centered Health IT as the Solution to Universal Health Identifiers
Robert Rowley, MD Twitter: @RRowleyMD The effort to build health IT products that are patient-facing, and able to pull together all the health information about…
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New Report Finds Health IT Tools Improve Patient Outcomes
AHRQ Presents Insights on Use of Health IT Tools in Ambulatory Settings The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency…
Retention versus Loyalty
Loyalty is about Maximizing Long Term Value COMMENTARY Chandresh Shah, Follow him @chandresh27 Visit his site: ChandreshShah.com email: chandresh@chandreshshah.com I have frequently talked about differentiators in…
STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and…
Big Bang Live is DOA without Proper Implementation
Big Bang Live COMENTARY Adam Nason Consultant, Medsys Group With Meaningful Use coming at hospitals like a meteor headed straight for Earth, some hospitals are…
PQRS Program Milestones
Physician Quality Reporting System Important Dates Providers considered eligible and able to participate in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Physician Quality Reporting…
Meaningful Use Stage 2 Questions and Answers
Ask Joy: This Week on Meaningful Use Stage 2 This week, we’ll be answering questions about some of the specifics of Meaningful Use Stage 2….
Safety Event Reporting by Patient Safety Organizations
Curious Health IT Safety Suggestions COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author The federal…
Data Exchange Growing through EHR Adoption
New Study Finds More Data Exchange with EHR Adoption New research, published in Health Affairs, from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…