By William Hersh MD – The last few years have been challenging for the EHR. While the HITECH Act succeeded in transitioning the US healthcare system mostly away from paper, the resulting electronic systems created a number of new problems.
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By Kayla Matthews – HIPAA compliance is an essential part of running a medical practice. The current incarnation of the HIPAA regulations has been in place since 2003 and they haven’t changed much in the intervening years — until now, that is.
By William Hersh – Last month, the NEJM published a pair of Perspective pieces about the HITECH Act. The first was written by the current and three former Directors of the ONC. The second was written by two other national thought leaders who also have a wealth of implementation experience.
With over $37 Billion spent on the EHR Incentive programs, what can we say looking back and what should we do moving forward? The NEJM ask just those questions to six people who we trust to give us some insight.
By Harpreet S. Sood MD, David Bates MD & Aziz Sheikh – The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 invested $30 billion to stimulate the adoption and “meaningful use” of electronic health records and related infrastructure—with the belief that such heath information technology (HIT) can help achieve the “triple aim”: better care experiences, better population health, and reduced per-capita costs.
By Steve Spearman – Earlier this summer, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a paper titled Impact of the HITECH act on physicians’ adoption of electronic health records, that analyzed how well HITECH has incentivized doctors to make the leap into EHR.
The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses what our industry may look like going forward post the HITECH era.
As part of the Administration’s efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people, the ONC announced twenty awardees for three health information technology (health IT) grant programs totaling about $38 million.
By William Hersh MD – It is hard to believe that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed into law five years ago, in 2009, and at the end of the year, the massive legislation was shaped into a program that has profoundly altered the informatics world, not to mention all of healthcare.