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Integrated Document Solutions (IDS) has released Reforma 3.0 bar-coded forms management system.
Health information exchanges are nearing meaningful use in terms of their business strategy, said Trudi Matthews, director of policy and public relations at HealthBridge, during a recent webinar discussion on the release of the eHealth Initiative's annual HIE survey. The webinar, hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based eHealth Initiative, disseminated data from the organization's seventh annual survey on HIE.
The Certification Commission for Health IT (CCHIT) submitted an application to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) to become an authorized testing and certification body last week.
ClearPractice has been authorized by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, allowing eligible customers to qualify for a 2 percent reimbursement when they use the company’s e-prescribing tool and a 2 percent reimbursement for Physician Quality Reporting Initiative reporting through the patient registry within ClearPractice’s EMR.
There is no EHR on the market today that does all of the steps required for physicians to successfully meet Stage 1 meaningful use criteria, according to an American Medical Association (AMA) statement released this week.
For home health agencies, homecare-specific vendors' focus and attention generally outweigh the potential for integration with an enterprise vendor's EMR, according to a KLAS report.
The adoption of digital patient records, increased regulation, provider consolidation and the increasing need for information exchange between patients, providers and payors all point towards the need for better information security, according to an article published in this month's International Journal of Internet and Enterprise Management.
Sharp HealthCare has selected the Allscripts Community Record, provided in partnership with health IT company dbMotion, to deliver connectivity across its San Diego-based health system.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Tuesday released the long anticipated final rules for identifying the criteria for hospitals and eligible providers to become meaningful users of health IT. Prominent professional societies have responded with supportive materials for eligible providers and hospitals, as well as reactions to the final rules.
Parkview Medical Center in Pueblo, Colo., has signed an agreement with MobileMD to provide health information exchange (HIE) services to its physician and medical communities.
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Camden-Clark Memorial Hospital, a 273-bed community hospital located in Parkersburg, W.V., has signed a multimillion-dollar agreement with Eclipsys to support clinical and business goals.
“The challenges that organizations face today with regard to clinical analytics are only going to be amplified in the future, as is evident in the later stages of meaningful use criteria,” according to a report from Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society Analytics.
The Georgia Health IT Regional Extension Center has selected the Coalition of Athens Area Physicians to become a local extension center to assist physicians and nurse practitioners in the adoption of EHRs in northeastern Georgia.
HP has introduced HP EHReady, which supports the adoption of EHRs among hospitals and physicians by offering to physicians the ability to stay connected through an integrated EHR patient network.
Smartphones are quickly becoming a way of life for medical professionals where 62 percent of specialists and 55 percent of primary care physicians report having one, and roughly 85 percent to 90 percent of those who have them are using them for internet and for email, according to a survey from Knowledge Networks using the Physicians Consulting Network.
Much of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009 implementation activity will occur at the state level, as will provisions in healthcare reform that build on health IT and health information exchange, according to a report from eHealth Initiative.
The use of secure patient-physician email in context of a comprehensive EHR is associated with the improved care for patients with diabetes and hypertension, according to Kaiser Permanente research published in the July issue of Health Affairs.
Iowa’s Health IT Regional Extension Center (REC) has selected eClinicalWorks unified EMR and practice management system as a preferred ambulatory vendor for its primary care providers state-wide.
“Today, we begin to make real the phrase ‘private and secure’ as operative characteristics of that ambitious project of improving health information in the U.S.,” said David Blumenthal, MD, the national coordinator for health IT during a Thursday press conference concerning the notice of proposed rulemaking published by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in the July 8 edition of the Federal Register to strengthen HIPAA privacy and security rules.
Wichita Clinic in Kansas has stated it plans to implement Centricity EMR from GE Healthcare across all 12 of its locations to help staff manage the half-million patient visits the system averages each year.
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“We’re beginning a revolution the way information is collected, managed, used and purposed for patients in the U.S. healthcare system,” said David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, in opening remarks at an audioconference training session on meaningful use and EHR certification last week.
In Part 1 of our closer look at the final rules for meaningful use and EHR certification standards, CMIO’s Jeff Byers spoke with David Blumenthal, MD, chair of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT. In Part 2, CMIOs weigh in with mixed reviews.
The framework for meaningful use is “something that had to be done and has been started intelligently,” John P. Glaser, PhD, vice president and CIO of Partners HealthCare System told CMIO. However, the challenges of becoming meaningful users and optimizing health information exchange will require unprecedented levels of communication within organizations and among healthcare systems, he said.
The contractual obligations in the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) on modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security and enforcement rules under the HITECH Act for business associates and downstream entities are game changers, according to Amy S. Leopard, JD, from Walter and Haverfield, during a webinar sponsored by the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS).
Standardizing performance measures, with the help of health IT, will make it possible to collect the right data at the right time to support performance measurement, clinical decision support, clinical research and quality improvement, said Janet M. Corrigan, PhD, president and CEO of the National Quality Forum (NQF) during a webinar hosted by the forum on June 17.