Protecting Patient Information
How would Your Practice Protect Kim’s Information? By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions Recently, several employees of Cedars Sinai Medical Center were fired for improperly accessing…
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Our Week of Patient Engagement
Recapping our Week of Patient Engagement While we will continue to bring you news and resources on stage 2 meaningful use and patient engagement, here…
Patient Engagement Resources
Patient Engagement: What’s your Plan? We have been highlighting patient engagement this week in our daily posts and on our radio station. Stage 2 of…
Explore and Give Feedback to Next.Data.Gov
Next Generation of Data.Gov Earlier this month President Obama talked about the importance of opening government data to the American people, so entrepreneurs and business…
AHRQ Publishes Guide on Patient Engagement
Hospital Guide on Patient Engagement The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is the lead Federal agency under the Department of Health & Human…
Massachusetts Docs Await MU Licensing Requirements
By Anthony Brino, Associate Editor Government Health IT Starting in 2015, doctors in Massachusetts will have to show health IT meaningful use proficiency as a…
Patient Engagement Through Social Media
Engaging Your Patients Using Social Media Stage 2 of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs will begin in 2014 for those Eligible Professionals (EPs) who have…
Applying Structured Change Management to EHR Implementations
Change Management and EHR Implementations The value of Electronic Health Records (EHR) seems obvious to most of us. With our vast progress in technology, it…
ONC Releases Updated Progress Report on Health IT Adoption
ONC Assesses Achievements to date on Five Year Health IT Plan Last week the ONC released a report detailing progress to date on the five…