It isn't yet obvious to the IT folks in the trenches, or even to analysts and soothsayers who make their living trendspotting, but 2012 may end up as the year of the health care cloud. Providers are increasingly looking for solutions to real-life problems brought on by jammed-full data centers that can't expand one more inch despite increasing data-storage needs fromelectronic health record (EHR) implementation and meaningful use, ICD-10 compliance and record retention rules, as well as accounta

(EMRAM), which is used to track EMR progress at hospitals and health systems. HIMSS Analytics developed the EMR Adoption Model in 2005 as a methodology for evaluating the progress and impact of electronic medical record systems for hospitals in the HIMSS ...

Aligning financial incentives with high-quality care and accelerating health information exchange efforts (HIE) were among several key recommendations made in a new report released this morning by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) that focuses on health IT's role in transforming healthcare. According to former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who co-chaired a BPC task force on delivery system reform and health IT, health innovation service delivery is severely lacking today despite significan

The next few months are going to be chock-full of new regulations affecting electronic health records systems. That's the scoop from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' latest regulatory agenda, submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and published Jan. 20. According to the agenda, EHRs are one of the agency's top priorities for the first half of 2012. HHS has accordingly sent to OMB proposed rules both on Stage 2 of Meaningful Use and on new standards, implementation spec

Physician practice owners struggle more with implementing electronic health record (EHR) systems than do non-owners, according to a first-of-its-kind study published this month. The Journal of American Medical Informatics Association published ...

However, the coordinator did have data to back up his claim that EHR adoption has taken off since passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act, the health IT section of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

NEW YORK & NASHVILLE, Tenn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--ICA (www.icainformatics.com) announced today the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) (www.nyehealth.org) to join a public-private multi-state working group comprised of Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors, Health Information Exchange (HIE) vendors and states. The group recognizes the ...

Floundering HITECH Initiatives Attract Political Spotlight Yes, we are seeing some modest success and adoption of EHRs as a result of the HITECH ... at the end this multi-year march to certified EHR adoption and meaningful use. Yet, under the covers ...

Nightingale On Demand is now the leading EMR vendor with a 23% market share and continues its reign as the leading ASP provider with 78% market share in Ontario's New EMR Adoption Program. The Vendor Market Share Rank represents the rank of all Funding ...

In the first large study of its kind, Penn Nursing researchers find that electronic health records are important tools for improvements in nursing care and health outcomes.

Perhaps not surprisingly, more than half of respondents chose meaningful use as the biggest health IT issue of the year. EHR adoption and incentive eligibility have been major priorities for healthcare professionals, and meaningful use shows no signs of ...

ABOUT THE STUDY The purpose of the study, "Adoption and Utilization of Electronic Health Record System by Long Term Care Facilities in Texas," was to assess EHR adoption and utilization status in LTC facilities in Texas, identify the barriers in ...

We'll be watching for the launch of one or more of these efforts in 2012.

It's going to be a busy year for those buying, selling, using and regulating electronic health systems as the country moves toward increasingly electronic health care. EHRs, of course, will be a major driver. Here are our top predictions for EHRs in 2012, culled both from around the web and from our own editors: 1. The government will continue to make headway in the Meaningful Use program. The decision by the Department of Health and Human Services to delay the start of the Stage 2 Meaningful Us

The Cleveland County HealthCare System is looking for new ways to serve its clients in the New Year. “A lot of what we’re doing in 2012 assures us to be here for a long, long time,” said Dotty Leatherwood, spokeswoman for the health care...