Meaningful Use
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GOP strategist Karl Rove recalls a personal encounter with the power of healthcare IT. Mike Miliard asks Rove what role the government should play in reform, and whether the Bush administration could have infused $27B in stimulus funds.
Achieving meaningful use is no easy feat for small providers, but Blue Mountain Hospital in Utah got it done. CFO Jeremy Lyman tells how, and shares his advice for other small providers.
Hugh Chatham Memorial Hospital was the third hospital in North Carolina to receive payments in return for demonstrating the meaningful use of health IT. CFO Don Trippel explains how the hospital reformed its finances through IT.
What role does EHR certification play in the era of meaningful use? Alisa Ray, executive director and CEO of CCHIT, answers that and more in this interview from HIMSS13.
Dan Michelson, CEO of Strata Decision Technology, who has spent more than 20 years in the healthcare sector, argues that the healthcare industry would do well to take lessons from the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
Every now and then a string of words will get put together, and peoples ears perk up, and you realize that you've created a new meme. That happened to me at the HIMSS Standards and Interoperability panel presentation.
Some docs are having trouble with meaningful use. Indeed, as William S. Underwood, senior associate at the American College of Physicians, noted in an education session Tuesday at HIMSS13, there's been a 15 percent increase in reports that practices are "very dissatisfied" with their EHRs since 2010.
As soon as he stepped onto the stage at HIMSS13 on Monday morning to deliver his keynote, Ochsner Health System President and CEO Warner Thomas acknowledged he might have preferred to follow a speaker other than New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
San Diego-based Humetrix has expanded the ways patients and physicians can exchange health records via its iBlueButton app using not only iPhones and iPads but also Android devices with secure Quick Response code to transfer the patient's Blue Button record between systems.