Diana Manos
Rigorous performance measurement and evaluation - best accomplished with an electronic health record system - will be critical to the success of accountable care organizations, according to industry experts.
It has been almost two years since Congress passed the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) – an unprecedented piece of legislation lawmakers hoped would catapult the advance of healthcare IT.
Since the passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) in 2009, Congress has been ever-watchful of the progress being made on electronic health record adoption.
As of Oct. 12, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) has verified 40 products, which have been certified by two Approved Testing and Certification Bodies (ATCB) for use under the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has announced it will house the Network Coordinating Center for a newly established data-sharing collaborative organization, the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network.
The federal government is already at work on second and third stages of meaningful use requirements, according to David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology.
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has announced it will house the Network Coordinating Center for a newly established data-sharing collaborative organization, the Developmental-Behavioral Pediatrics Research Network.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology has launched a website where providers can find products that have been certified for meaningful use.
Alisa Ray, executive director of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology, said Friday that CCHIT doesn't foresee a backlog of any kind in accommodating testing for meaningful use certification.
Healthcare information technology can collect and help analyze the quality measures the U.S. must have to integrate care, says the chief of the largest healthcare payer in the country, who added that the status quo of fragmented patient health information and fragmented care is no longer acceptable.