Meaningful Use
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, through its regional extension centers, has started recruiting “physician champions” who are well on their way to becoming meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs) to help others in their area get over the hurdles of digitizing their medical records.
Hospital executives and patients agree that healthcare needs a revamp, and they're looking to information technology to make that happen, according to a recent survey. But when it comes to their technology desires and concerns there are some differences.
The advisory panel that is developing proposals for the next set of EHR quality measures is weighing whether to follow the same structure for Stage 2 of meaningful use as for Stage 1, with core and specialty items, and whether to carry forward the 2011 measures.
The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) says it's time for the ONC to address the governance of standard vocabularies and terminology for the meaningful use program.
Many regional extension centers are already discovering best practices to reach primary providers in their region and begin the job of digitizing their records to meet meaningful use guidelines.
The debut of HIMSS' mini-conference HIT X.0 drew hundreds of attendees to a keynote featuring Aneesh Chopra, U.S. technology czar, and John Glaser, CEO of the Health Services Business Unit at Siemens.
Surescripts, the American Hospital Association and the College of American Pathologists have been awarded a $4.9 million grant to launch a program to prepare hospitals to submit electronic data on reportable lab results to public health agencies - a Stage 1 requirement for meeting meaningful use incentives.
This Session Tweet recaps Former Labor Secretary Robert Reich's keynote speech on Monday morning at HIMSS11.
The nation’s chief technology officer stood before a room of health IT and business leaders Sunday at HIMSS11 and submitted what he called a "hypothesis."
The to-do list for the year ahead for the members of the College of Health Information Executives (CHIME) is long and complex - the more reason to form partnerships, says one of its leaders.