Meaningful Use
With federal approval of its statewide health information exchange secured, Wisconsin officials say organizations will begin implementing the plan in early 2011.
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, the largest healthcare payer in the country, has released a plan for upgrading its computer and data systems with the aim of providing better care. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandates the overhaul.
NIIT Technologies, one of the world's largest IT corporations, has entered the U.S. healthcare industry with the acquisition of an electronic health records and referral management platform.
A recent study by RAND Corp., published in the American Journal of Managed Care, reveals that improvements in quality of care varied among different types of disease.
The federal Health IT Policy Committee's Quality Measures Workgroup has extended its deadline for public comment on its proposal for clinical quality measures for Stage 2 and Stage 3 meaningful use until Dec. 31.
Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible hospitals and critical access hospitals (CAHs) must use certified EHR technology to be eligible.
Family physician and medical blogger Kenny Lin wrote of the error he almost made several years ago when he prescribed medication for one of his patients using his EMR system. He clicked the wrong choice, but caught his mistake before the patient left the office. Lin's assessment: "electronic systems only change the nature of the medical errors that are made."
I was going to write about the Institute of Medicine holding its first meeting as the entity tapped by the ONC to study the safety of EMRs. Or is it EHRs? I read a couple of articles and EMR and EHR were interchangeable. Has the industry finally reached a point where they are interchangeable?
The HIT Policy Committee's Quality Measures Workgroup is taking recommendations from the public until Dec. 23 on clinical quality measures for Stage 2 and Stage 3 meaningful use.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology plans to sponsor an open community of practice for developers of health IT to create solutions to challenges that prevent rapid and widespread meaningful use of electronic health records.