Everyone seems to have an opinion, or at least has written something, about the final Meaningful Use (MU) Rules that were released on July 13th. Of the multitude of posts and articles out there on the net, there the top three to get you started are: 1) ONC Chief, David Blumenthal’s article in the New [...]
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Meaningful Use Perspectives & Resources
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, Privacy, Security, consumer health, policy, standards, tagged HITECH Act, meaningful use, Blumenthal, Halamka on July 15, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Meaningful Use Rules Drop Today
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, HIT, consumer health, policy, standards, tagged healthcare reform, HITECH Act, meaningful use, Innovation Center on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
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 [...]
Ramping Up for MU Rules, CMS Launches New Site
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged CMS, HHS, HITECH Act, ARRA, meaningful use on June 21, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Today, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched a new site that is basically an everything you wanted to know about meaningful use, ARRA, the HITECH Act, certified EHRs, etc., but were afraid to ask. This is a reasonable attempt by CMS to get as much information online, in one location, that addresses [...]
Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much
Posted in CCD, CCR, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, consumer health, policy, tagged HIT, meaningful use on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Reading through the headlines, the press releases and checking in on today’s HIT Policy Committee meeting, it appears that the over-riding theme of comments regarding Meaningful Use (MU) rules (these were due by COB on 3/15) is to relax the rules, particularly regarding reimbursement and clarify other requirements of MU to ease the burden on [...]
Acquisitions Creating White Hot Market for Healthcare IT
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIT, eRx, tagged acquisitions, ARRA, healthcare IT, HITECH Act, meaningful use on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Since the beginning of 2010 there has been a series of acquisitions in healthcare IT (HIT) market, which recently culminated in one of the largest, IBM’s acquisition of Initiate. Triggering this activity is the massive amount of federal spending on HIT, (stimulus funding via ARRA which depending on how you count it, adds up to [...]
Achieving Meaningful Use: View from the Trenches
Posted in CCD, CCR, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, consumer health, policy, tagged certified EHR, HITECH Act, meaningful use on January 5, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Since the Meaningful Use and Certification proposed rules have been released, have read numerous articles, posts and tweets to gain some perspective on the ramifications of these rules on the market. The best piece I’ve read by far is that from Beth Israel Deaconess’s (BIDMC) own CIO, John Halamka. As many already know, Halamka has [...]
Part One: Stage One Meaningful Use Winners
Posted in CMS, EHR, EMR, HIT, HL 7, eRx, 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 [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets
Posted in EHR, EMR, HIE, HIT, RHIO, eRx, policy, standards, tagged CCHIT, CMS, HITECH Act, ARRA, meaningful use on December 31, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Late yesterday afternoon, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) who holds the big bucket of ARRA incentive funds for EHR adoption, released two major documents for public review and comment that will basically define healthcare IT for the next decade. The first document, at 136 pgs, titled: Health Information Technology: Initial Set of [...]
Time to Kill the PHR Term: Part 1
Posted in EHR, EMR, PHR, consumer health, policy, tagged meaningful use on September 9, 2009 | 11 Comments »
Chilmark Research is becoming increasingly uncomfortable with the PHR acronym for Personal Health Record. There are a couple of reasons for this: 1) The term is a hold-over from the physician-centric term EMR and thereby firmly attached to that conceptual framework. But does the average consumer really need to adopt an EMR architectural construct for [...]
Stuck in the Past: New HIE Model Required
Posted in Dossia, EHR, Google Health, HIE, Health Cloud, HealthVault, PHR, Privacy, tagged meaningful use on July 30, 2009 | 9 Comments »
On July 16th, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) held a lengthy meeting of the HIT Policy Committee where a wide range of topics were addressed by various workgroups. As we reported earlier, the Meaningful Use (MU) Workgroup presented the second draft of recommendations, that were approved. Over the course of [...]
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