Nearly a year after the HIT Policy Committee’s meaningful use recommendations were approved by ONC chief Dr. David Blumenthal, an extensive comment period that solicited some 2,200 comments, the final Stage One meaningful use rules will be released today at 10:00am. Details for today’s conference call are: WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a press [...]
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Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, Innovation Center, meaningful use on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Managed Care, HIT & ARRA
Posted in CMS, consumer health, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, telehealth, tagged ARRA, healthcare IT, healthcare reform on March 30, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, had the privilege to attend and present to a packed audience in New York City for CRG’s conference: IT & the Future of Managed Care: The Next Wave. Unlike most conferences I attend that are predominately focused on either the provider consumer sector of the healthcare market (tomorrow its the local New England HIMSS [...]
Relaxing Meaningful Use? Not Really
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, HIT, policy, Security, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, menaingful use on February 19, 2010 | 5 Comments »
There has been a lot of talk this week in the trade pubs about the HIT Policy Committee (HITPC) meeting on Wednesday wherein the committee recommended a relaxation of meaningful use (MU) requirements. But if one looks closer, the “story” is far deeper and certainly of more significance. If you frequent this site, you already [...]
Top Ten Predictions for Healthcare IT in 2010
Posted in CMS, Dossia, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, mHealth, Microsoft, P4P, PHP, PHR, policy, telehealth on January 14, 2010 | 14 Comments »
Plenty of top ten predictions on any number of topics, but it is rare to find one focusing on healthcare IT, Chilmark Research’s bailiwick. And while we may be just a little late in getting this out there onto the streets, it is mid-January after all, our quick search on the net did not turn [...]
Part One: Stage One Meaningful Use Winners
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, HL 7, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, CMS, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use, ONC on January 3, 2010 | 6 Comments »
As required by legislation in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA), HHS/CMS released rules for the meaningful use of certified EHRs before the end of 2009 (late the afternoon of Dec. 30th). Others have already written plenty on what is actually stated in these rules, therefore, let’s take a look at the potential winners [...]
NHIN: The New Health Internet?
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, HIE, HIT, Microsoft, PHR, policy, Privacy, Security on October 1, 2009 | 14 Comments »
Chilmark has not been a big fan of the National Health Information Network (NHIN) concept. It was, and in large part still is, a top heavy federal government effort to create a nationwide infrastructure to facilitate the exchange of clinical information. A high, lofty and admirable goal, but one that is far too in front [...]
Pushing ONC to Act on Consumer’s Behalf
Posted in CCD, CCR, CDA, CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, PHP, PHR, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, legislation, ONC, PHR systems, Rep Kennedy on September 23, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Just about anything you hear coming out of HHS’s ONC office is with regards to digitizing the doctor’s office. This is somewhat understandable as there is some $36B in ARRA funding just waiting for the rules on “meaningful use” (MU) to come out of CMS sometime in December. Until those rules are released, the EMR [...]
Our Meaningful Use Comments
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, policy, tagged ARRA HITECH Act, HHS, meaningful use, ONC on June 26, 2009 | 9 Comments »
In the FWIW column, Chilmark Research submitted its comments on the Draft Recommendations for Meaningful Use, which were released on June 16th. Today at 5pm was the deadline and we barely made it (email time-stamp of 4:59pm). Following is the text of the email/comments we submitted to HHS and we certainly welcome your feedback, e.g. [...]
ONC Provides Roadmap for HITECH Act Execution
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, ONC on May 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday, ONC published an 8pg document that provides a roadmap for the important decisions that they will make in the coming months. Over on the industry news website, Healthcare IT News, John Halamka provides a good overview on some of the highlights of this fairly important document. Meaningful Use: Clearly, ONC is seeking to provide [...]
Making “Meaningful Use” Well… Meaningful
Posted in CMS, consumer health, EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, PHR, policy, standards, tagged ARRA, HITECH Act, Stimulus on April 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
The market for EHRs has stalled as potential buyers await the outcome of the government’s definition of “meaningful use” and “certified EHR” both critical for determining Stimulus reimbursement. Of course the recession has not helped things for EHR vendors with many a hospital and practice seeing fewer patients, smaller endowments (thanks a bunch Madoff), and [...]
