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Healthcare Interoperability
UPDATE: In case you missed our discussion, you can watch the video recording below: One of the hottest topics in all of healthcare is the concept of healthcare interoperability. I remember when Farzad...
View ArticleWhat Does Health Informatics Mean to You?
A couple of weeks ago, I was involved in a great discussion about health informatics and what it actually entails. This wasn’t the first time I have been involved in this type of discussion as...
View ArticleEMR Replacement Frenzy Has Major Downsides
Now that they’ve gotten an EMR in shape to collect Meaningful Use payouts, hospitals are examining what those incentive bucks have gotten them. And apparently, many aren’t happy with what they see. In...
View ArticleThe Cost of Encouraging Patient Engagement
We all know that healthcare providers want to encourage patient engagement to ensure patients have the information they need to manage conditions and share information with other providers. There has...
View ArticleData Sharing Largely Isn’t Informing Hospital Clinical Decisions
Some new data released by ONC suggests that while healthcare data is being shared far more frequently between hospitals than in the past, few hospital clinicians use such data regularly as part of...
View Article$34.7 Billion Spent on Meaningful Use
CMS has put out the latest data on meaningful use participation and payments. They broke the Medicare dollars out by meaningful use stage 1 and stage 2. Meaningful use stage 1 cost nearly $20 billion....
View ArticleMost Hospitals Offer Patients Online Access To Medical Records
New research from the American Hospital Association suggests that nearly all hospitals now offer individual patients online access to their medical records, and most offer them the ability to perform...
View ArticleHHS OIG Says Unplanned Hospital EMR Outages Are Fairly Common
More than half of U.S. hospitals responding to a new survey reported having unplanned EMR outages, according to a new report issued by the HHS Office of the Inspector General, due to a variety of...
View ArticleBad Handwriting Could Cost a Doctor His License
I admit that I don’t have very good handwriting. My signature is no better, and often leads people to ask if I am a doctor. Because it is commonly known that doctors don’t excel at handwriting skills....
View ArticleMeaningful Use Has Done Its Job
While Meaningful Use has been challenging at times, the vast majority of hospitals seem to have stayed on top of things. In its new report on the IPPS negative payment adjustments for fiscal 2017, CMS...
View ArticleHospital Execs Underestimate QPP Impact
A new survey by Nuance Communications suggests that hospital finance leaders aren’t prepared to meet the demands of MACRA’s Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS), and may not understand the...
View ArticleAHA Asks Congress To Reduce Health IT Regulations for Medicare Providers
The American Hospital Association has sent a letter to Congress asking members to reduce regulatory burdens for Medicare providers, including mandates affecting a wide range of health IT services. The...
View ArticleWhen It Comes To Meaningful Use, Some Vendors May Have An Edge
A new article appearing in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association has concluded that while EHRs certified under the meaningful use program should perform more or less equally, they...
View ArticleWho is the Real EHR Customer?
Who's the real customer for EHR systems. Is it the healthcare provider or is it the patient? How EHR vendors answer this will determine their future. https://t.co/1wPadMTXlZ — Clay Forsberg...
View ArticleApparently, Hospital EHR Use Still Has A Long Way To Go
It’s fairly easy to look back at the progress hospitals have made with EHR use and be impressed. In less than 10 years, most hospitals have gone from largely paper-based processes to relying on EHRs to...
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