Patient Engagement is an Important Focus of MU Stage 2
What are you doing about Patient Engagement? In a medical practice these days categorizing your patients is common. You have active patients that come to…
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CMS Releases Updated Data on EHR Adoption
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data that demonstrate that doctors and hospitals are using electronic health records (EHRs) to provide more…
Why Healthcare Must Operationalize Data Breach Response
COMMENTARY Rick Kam, President and co-founder ID Experts Over the last decade, the scope of identity theft has widened from credit card and financial fraud…
What are Your EHR Plans for the Next 12 Months?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The next twelve months present serious EHR scheduling challenges to medical practices. You need to manage and consider the critical…
National Pilot Program Launched to Advance Protected Health Information, PHI
Program to Focus on PHI in Electronic Request for Medical Records The Standards and Interoperability (S&I) Framework was launched to work with healthcare stakeholders in…
ONC to Provide Annual Guidance on Surveillance as Part of EHR Certification Process
EHR Certification and Surveillance William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author Last week’s ONC Health…
Investment in Digital Health on the Rise
EHRs, Big Data Emerging Trends in Digital Health On Monday, start up incubator Rock Health released its midyear report on the state of digital health. The report reflects…
Final HHS Health IT Safety Plan issued
The Joint Commission to expand capacity to investigate Health IT-related events A plan to guide health information technology (IT) activities across the Department of Health…
The Limits to De-Identification of Clinical Data
William Hersh, MD, Professor and Chair, OHSU Blog: Informatics Professor There is a wealth of opportunity for putting digital clinical data to use for better understanding health…