The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a paper outlining a 10-year plan to achieve an interoperable health IT infrastructure in an effort to reduce costs while improving population health and patient engagement, FierceHealthIT reports (Bowman, FierceHealthIT, 6/5).
Electronic health records dramatically advance patient care. At Atrius Health, we fervently support the intent of meaningful use, a CMS program started in 2011 that provides financial incentives to organizations that use EHRs to improve patient care and penalties to those that don't. We have watched with anticipation as this program has helped move the majority of U.S. physicians to electronic patient records. However, as the program progresses, we encourage Congress and CMS to re-assess the program's sustainability.
On Tuesday, House Republicans sent a letter to National Coordinator for Health IT Karen DeSalvo questioning her office's authority to regulate health IT products as called for in a recently released draft report, The Hill reports (Al-Faruque, The Hill, 6/3).
User Experience and Usability Testing have become fashionable lingo in the health IT world, yet EHR software is rife with usability issues; convoluted workflows, poor content, and poor interaction design are common frustrations that plague providers daily. Changing healthcare reimbursement models, Meaningful Use, PQRS, ICD-10... don’t providers have enough concerns without having to worry about their EHR?
More than 33% of physicians have recommended mobile health applications to their patients, according to a new Manhattan Research survey, MobiHealthNews reports (Comstock, MobiHealthNews, 5/29).
Although the majority of patients expect hospitals to use electronic health records, only about half say they believe EHR technology is secure, according to a new poll by Morning Consult.
The poll surveyed a national sample of 3,687 voters from March 21 to March 23 and May 2 to May 4.
On Friday, James Thaw, president and CEO of Athens Regional Medical Center in Georgia, resigned following the poor implementation of a new electronic health record system, Modern Healthcare reports.
National Nurses United has announced a campaign that aims to highlight the dangers of using "unproven" medical technology, Healthcare IT News reports.
Health IT is a key part of many of the programs that will receive a total of up to $110 million in federal funding through CMS' Health Care Innovation Awards, Modern Healthcare reports (Conn, Modern Healthcare, 5/23).
The health care industry is divided over a proposed rule released earlier this week by CMS and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT that would give providers an additional year to upgrade electronic health record systems to meet reporting requirements for Stage 2 of the Medicare meaningful use program, Modern Healthcare
Laboratory professionals are essential to reducing patient safety risks by ensuring patients' electronic health record data are accurate and effective, according to a CDC report, Clinical Innovation & Technology reports (Walsh, Clinical Innovation & Techonology, 5/19).
In a nearly 1,700-page proposed rule on fiscal year 2015 inpatient payment policies released Wednesday, CMS appears to have quietly set Oct. 1, 2015, as the new ICD-10 implementation deadline, Health Data Management reports (Goedert, Health Data Management, 5/1).
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In a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the American Hospital Association raised concerns about a proposed rule containing voluntary certification criteria for electronic health record systems in 2015, EHR Intelligence reports (Murphy, EHR Intelligence, 4/29).
User-centered design processes must be applied to each capability an EHR technology includes that is specified in the following certification criteria: § 170.315(a)(1) through (4), (8) through (10), and (18) and (b)(2) and (3).
There will be an additional 41,100 health information management jobs in the U.S. by 2022, a 22% increase over 2012, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Health Data Management reports (Goedert, Health Data Management, 4/25).
The report notes that HIM workers typically:
Kaufman Hall, a provider of financial consulting services and software to health care organizations, has acquired Axiom EPM, a vendor of performance management software for the health care industry, for an undisclosed sum...Huron Consulting Group has entered into an agreement to acquire the assets of Vonlay, a health care technology consulting firm, for an undisclosed sum.
In a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, the Electronic Health Record Association raised concerns about a proposed rule containing voluntary certification criteria for electronic health record systems in 2015, EHR Intelligence re
Veterans' adoption of the Blue Button tool to access their health information through the Department of Veterans Affairs' personal health record portal is lagging, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association, FierceEMR reports (Durben-Hirsch, FierceEMR, 4/23).