Diana Manos
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) and the Drummond Group are the first to pass government muster as authorized to test and certify electronic health record systems to qualify for meaningful use incentives under the stimulus package. There are more to come.
HealthInfoNet, the nonprofit organization managing the Health Information Exchange (HIE) for the State of Maine, announced Monday that it will partner with Health Language, Inc. (HLI) as it transitions from a two-year demonstration project to a full statewide HIE implementation.
The patients at hospitals with the most advanced type of electronic medical records are likely to spend 22.4 percent less time in the emergency room than at other hospitals, a new study from the W.P.Carey School of Business at Arizona State University shows.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) will announce the names of the authorized testing and certification bodies (ATCB) "soon," according to Carol Bean, ONC's division director for certification and testing.
Forty health systems have joined the Premier healthcare alliance Accountable Care Organization (ACO) Readiness Collaborative to improve community health using healthcare IT infrastructure, according to Premier president and CEO Susan DeVore.
The Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Inspector General is recommending that the federal government crack down on physicians who have incorrectly coded their Medicare claims for the wrong place of service.
Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced on July 8 a 234-page notice of proposed rulemaking on health IT privacy and security that promises to strengthen existing laws.
Federal officials released the final rule on meaningful use July 13, a rule sets the criteria for physicians and hospitals to qualify for thousands of dollars in stimulus funding incentives for the adoption of electronic health records.
In the healthcare IT world, probably nothing has been more anticipated than the meaningful use rules. At last, they arrived on July 13, and I liken the magnitude of the 864-page document to that of an historic snowfall. As I write this column, people are still digging out.
The "2010 U.S. Ambulatory Electronic Health Records Certification Study" from research and consulting firm CapSite aims to assess the industry views on ambulatory EHR certification.