Does CDS Need a Regulatory Carve Out?
House Bill to Clarify FDA Regulation on Software COMMENTARY William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author…
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7 HIPAA Compliant Assumptions That Can Trip Up IT
IT Teams Do the Heavy Lifting to Ensure HIPAA Compliance Are you or aren’t you? Compliant, I mean. Seems like an easy enough question to…
CMS and ONC Propose New Timeline for EHR Incentive Program
Industry Reacts to Proposed Changes In a joint statement from CMS and ONC last Friday, they laid out the proposal for changes to the EHR…
The Paradox of Innovation – Overcoming Resistance to Change
The Health Management Academy Meeting By Tom Hills, Executive VP Eastern US, PerfectServe I regularly cross paths with hospital executives looking to integrate the latest and…
ECRI Names Top 10 Health Technology Hazards for 2014
Data Integrity Failures in EHRs and other Health IT Makes Annual List The Emergency Care Research Institute (ECRI) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing applied…
Soap Operas and the Security Risk Analysis
Security Risk Analysis Timeline By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate, eMail: audits@emradvocate.com “Like sands through the hourglass, so are the…
Hospital EHR Participation and Payment Adjustments
Learn How Your Eligible Hospital’s EHR Participation Affects Upcoming Payment Adjustments Subsection (d) hospitals that are eligible to participate in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program…
ICD-10: Less Than One Year Out
Less than one year to implement ICD-10…so let’s talk. By Matthew Albright, Director, Administrative Simplification Group for CMS No matter where you are in your…
Quality Measurement 2.0
Clinical Quality Measures a Problem Spot in Certification By John Halamka, MD I’ve written several posts about the frustrating aspects of Meaningful Use Stage 2…