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 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘meaningful use’
Relax Meaningful Use… but Not Too Much
Posted in CCD, CCR, consumer health, EHR, EMR, Google Health, HealthVault, policy, tagged HIT, meaningful use on March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Acquisitions Creating White Hot Market for Healthcare IT
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIT, tagged acquisitions, ARRA, healthcare IT, HITECH Act, meaningful use on February 9, 2010 | 2 Comments »
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, consumer health, EHR, Google Health, HealthVault, PHR, 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, 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 [...]
Meaningful Use Rules Hit the Streets
Posted in EHR, EMR, eRx, HIE, HIT, policy, RHIO, standards, tagged ARRA, CCHIT, CMS, HITECH Act, 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 consumer health, EHR, EMR, PHR, 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, Health Cloud, HealthVault, HIE, 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 [...]
Stay Tuned, Meaningful Use Part Deux Forthcoming
Posted in consumer health, EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, meaningful use, Stimulus on July 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today, ONC’s HIT Policy Committee will reconvene to hear the latest iteration of draft recommendations on “meaningful use.” For those of you that are new to all of this, “meaningful use” is the legislative language used in ARRA, to insure that the ~$36 billion to be spent on clinician adoption of EHRs will result in [...]
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. [...]
<8hrs to Get Your Comments In
Posted in EHR, EMR, policy, tagged ARRA, HHS, HITECH Act, meaningful use, ONC on June 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The proverbial doors to get your comments in on the Draft Recommendations for Meaningful Use that were released on June 16th close late this afternoon at 5pm ET. Plenty has been written here by Chilmark Research on the topic of “meaningful use” (simply do a search) and we did a quick review on the recommendations [...]
