Meaningful Use
They say as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services goes, so goes the rest of the payer industry. CMS is close to releasing the final meaningful use criteria. There are rumblings out in the marketplace that commercial payers are putting meaningful use criteria in their physician contracts.
It’s never too early to start work on the 2013 quality measures, which is exactly what the federal health IT panel is doing.
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) has received $2 million from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to provide technical assistance to advance electronic exchange of laboratory data.
Steven Waldren, MD, director of the Center of Health Information Technology at the American Academy of Family Physicians, gave an interesting provider perspective about meaningful use, financial incentives and hospitals reaching out to physician groups in a recent Q&A.
Healthcare providers and payers face complex challenges when trying to maximize the value of their clinical data, but their expectations for clinical analytics vary significantly, according to a new study.
Massachusetts General Hospital, a 900-bed care center located in the heart of Boston, has been using a new secure file transfer solution that has helped solve one piece of meaningful use.
Officials of HIMSS Analytics, the not-for-profit subsidiary of the Healthcare Information and management System Society (HIMSS), announced will add new questions to their annual study on meaningful use to gauge hospitals' readiness.
Leadership and execution are key to the success of the Allscripts-Eclipsys merger, according to the Allscripts customers, who say the merger presents both challenges and opportunities.
Chicago-based Allscripts, a company focused on selling electronic health record systems to physician practices and community clinics, announced on June 9 it would enter the hospital market by merging with Eclipsys Corp.
It’s one week into summer, and healthcare professionals across the country are anxiously awaiting the final definition of meaningful use. To say they are eagerly waiting would also apply, but anxiously seems more precise because there is plenty of anxiety in the waiting.
The Leapfrog Group's recent report on CPOEs stresses the importance of proper testing and monitoring of health IT to avoid potential risk and harm to patients. The report focused on CPOE adoption, it also looked at the efficacy of CPOE systems. While the report was on CPOEs, its findings are relevant for EHR adoption.