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    1. EHR Leaders Give Tips for Success

      Explore Health Data Management (May 14 2012) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      The nine providers below are doing about as well with EHRs as anyone-they are collecting meaningful use dollars, have reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EHR adoption model, or have won a HIMSS Davies award for their implementations. Health Data ...

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      Mentions:   Health Information Technology

    2. EHR Success All in the Details

      Explore Health Data Management (May 10 2012) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      The eight providers below are doing about as well with EHRs as anyone-they are collecting meaningful use dollars, have reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EHR adoption model, or have won a HIMSS Davies award for their implementations. Health Data ...

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      Mentions:   CIO   Electronic Health Records   Health Information Technology

    3. Study: Docs Have EHR Rights, but Also Responsibilities

      Explore Health Data Management (Feb 13 2012) Thought Leadership , EHR Adoption

      Print Reprints Email Tweet An article published Feb. 13 in the Canadian Medical Association Journal outlines 10 “rights” that clinicians should expect in the performance of an electronic health records system, as well as corresponding responsibilities of the clinicians to use the EHR to improve the quality of care. The article’s authors are Dean Sittig, PhD., a biomedical informatics professor at the University of Texas Health Science Ce

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      Mentions:   Houston   Electronic Health Records

    4. Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Moved to 2014

      Explore Health Data Management (Nov 30 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      While the flow of meaningful use incentives to date has been slow, the delay will better align EHR adoption policy with market realities, such as limited vendor capacity to work with providers. Giving hospitals another year to implement these changes ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   America   Electronic Health Records   American Medical Association

    5. Colorado Providers Debate the Value of HIE

      Explore Health Data Management (Nov 14 2011) EHR Adoption

      Colorado Providers Debate the Value of HIEHealth Data ManagementFurther, many of the physicians with an EHR use the NextGen system and already can exchange data among themselves. The article looks at Boulder Community Hospital, which is participating in the CORHIO at a cost of $10000 per month. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Boulder   CIO   Colorado

    6. Survey: Many Hospitals Ready for Stage 1 Attestation

      Explore Health Data Management (Nov 1 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      Survey: Many Hospitals Ready for Stage 1 AttestationHealth Data ManagementOne-third of surveyed hospitals score at Stage 3 of HIMSS Analytics' 0-7 scale of EHR adoption, and 17 percent have reached Stages 6 or 7. In the industry overall, only 4.1 percent of hospitals have hit those two highest stages. ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   Health Information Technology   Joseph Goedert

    7. CMS Gives New EHR Meaningful Use Guidance

      Explore Health Data Management (Oct 19 2011) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      CMS Gives New EHR Meaningful Use GuidanceHealth Data Management"Over 114000 eligible professionals and hospitals have registered for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. As more hospitals move towards meeting meaningful use and attesting, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Medicare   Cloud Services   Medicare EHR Incentive Program

    8. Fed Advisors: Too Soon to Add EHR Metadata to Meaningful Use

      Explore Health Data Management (Oct 13 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      Fed Advisors: Too Soon to Add EHR Metadata to Meaningful UseHealth Data ManagementAdoption of EHR metadata standards, which the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology has advocated, could help improve data exchange and would enable patients to segregate parts of their medical records, such as self-paid treatment ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   ONC   Health Information Technology

    9. Privacy, EHR Policy Changes Coming in Federal Health IT Plan

      Explore Health Data Management (Sep 13 2011) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Privacy, EHR Policy Changes Coming in Federal Health IT PlanHealth Data ManagementONC in the plan also reiterates its support of a recommendation from the HIT Policy Committee to extend by one year Stage 1 of EHR meaningful use for providers attesting in 2011, and notes it has made the recommendation to the Centers for Medicare and ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   ONC   Health Information Technology

    10. Report: Start Stage 2 Meaningful Use Work Now

      Explore Health Data Management (Jul 21 2011) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Report: Start Stage 2 Meaningful Use Work Now Report: Start Stage 2 Meaningful Use Work NowHealth Data ManagementA final rule on requirements under Stage 2 of the EHR meaningful use program is unlikely to be significantly different from recommendations from the HIT Policy and Standards Committees, according to a new report from consultancy Computer Sciences Corp. ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   Erica Drazen   Farzad Mostashari

    11. Two More States Start Medicaid EHR Meaningful Use

      Explore Health Data Management (Jun 20 2011) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Two More States Start Medicaid EHR Meaningful Use Two More States Start Medicaid EHR Meaningful UseHealth Data ManagementPennsylvania and the state of Washington recently launched their Medicaid electronic health records meaningful use incentive programs, the 16th and 17th states to do so, but the first since May 2. Fourteen out of the first 15 states live on the program ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Washington   Texas   louisiana

    12. OptumInsight CEO: Meaningful Use Helps EHR Adoption, Hampers Innovation

      Explore Health Data Management (Jun 2 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      OptumInsight CEO: Meaningful Use Helps EHR Adoption, Hampers Innovation OptumInsight CEO: Meaningful Use Helps EHR Adoption, Hampers InnovationHealth Data ManagementMeaningful use incentives are improving adoption of electronic health records among small physician practices, but meaningful use itself is blocking further development of EHRs, which raises new barriers to adoption. That's what the CEO of a major ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Washington   Congress   Cloud Services

    13. Survey: EHRs Often Don't Increase Doc Productivity

      Explore Health Data Management (Apr 6 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      Survey: EHRs Often Don't Increase Doc ProductivityHealth Data ManagementAspects of hospital or delivery system ownership may slow EHR adoption or integration with other technologies. About 20 percent of independent practices with an EHR were in the implementation stage, compared with nearly 34 percent of hospital-owned ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   Medical Group Management Association   Mgma

    14. Important Meaningful Use Dates for 2011

      Explore Health Data Management (Mar 24 2011) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Important Meaningful Use Dates for 2011Health Data ManagementFeb. 29, 2012: Last day for eligible professionals to register and attest to receive an incentive payment for calendar year 2011. A lot more information on the EHR meaningful use programs is available at cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Health Information Technology

    15. Delivery System Funds Physician I.T. Adoption

      Explore Health Data Management (Mar 14 2011) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Providers pay the delivery system for initial training and repay the licenses if they receive EHR meaningful use incentive payments. (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Philadelphia   Electronic Health Records   Joseph Goedert

    16. For Effective IT Governance, Focus on Patients

      Explore Health Data Management (Feb 21 2011) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      For Effective IT Governance, Focus on PatientsHealth Data ManagementAnd its member hospitals are at various EHR adoption levels. But two of the hospitals have virtually eliminated paper orders, and the others are on their way up the ladder. Getting physicians and other clinicians to embrace order entry and other ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Indiana   Ohio   Cmio

    17. Feds to Query Docs on EHR Use, Workflows

      Explore Health Data Management (Feb 11 2011) Meaningful Use

      Feds to Query Docs on EHR Use, WorkflowsHealth Data ManagementAs part of the annual National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey from the CDC's National Center for Health Statistics, nearly 5500 physicians will receive a ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Congress   EMR   ONC

    18. How To Succeed At EHRs While Really Trying

      Explore Health Data Management (Dec 31 2010) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Adoption

      How To Succeed At EHRs While Really Trying Because of the huge incentives, EHR adoption will lead I.T. purchasing, and consequently EHRs will likely evolve to being the core of the IHIS, just like accounting and inventory became core to ERP systems. Absent the ARRA legislation, we think revenue ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   ERP   IBM   Electronic Health Records

    19. Feds: Deeper EHR Use Ramps Up

      Explore Health Data Management (Dec 14 2010) Trends in End User Experience , Green End User Experience

      Feds: Deeper EHR Use Ramps UpHealth Data ManagementPreliminary results from an annual federal survey show 50.7 percent of responding physicians in 2010 are using some type of electronic health records system ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Joseph Goedert

    20. 'Healthy Skepticism' on Meaningful Use

      Explore Health Data Management (Nov 30 2010) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      'Healthy Skepticism' on Meaningful UseHealth Data ManagementThe government may be pouring billions into promoting EHR adoption, but when it comes to radiologists, the payoff may be long in coming and difficult to ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Congress   Electronic Health Records   Cloud Services

    21. Security Gap Imperils Meaningful Use Promise

      Explore Health Data Management (Oct 26 2010) Thought Leadership , EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Security Gap Imperils Meaningful Use Promise providers can start applying for EHR meaningful use incentive payments and by May the first organizations could be getting checks for demonstrating they are receiving the benefits that EHRs have always promised. That's wonderful ... but I remember a core ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Congress   Electronic Health Records   Health Information Technology

    22. Study: EHR Cuts Long-Term Operating Costs

      Explore Health Data Management (Oct 25 2010)

      Study: EHR Cuts Long-Term Operating CostsHealth Data ManagementAfter five years of EHR use, surveyed independent practices reported a median operating margin of 10.1 percent higher than practices in their first year of ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Electronic Health Records   Medical Group Management Association   Mgma

    23. Health IT Summit Speaker Talks About Climbing the EHR Ladder

      Explore Health Data Management (Sep 27 2010) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Adoption

      Health IT Summit Speaker Talks About Climbing the EHR LadderHealth Data ManagementWhen it comes to EHR adoption, CIO Dee Cantrell knows first-hand that patience is a virtue. Emory's steady rise up the 7-rung HIMSS Analytics scale dates to ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CIO   Electronic Health Records

    24. Report Details Hospital EHR Purchases

      Explore Health Data Management (Sep 21 2010) Trends in End User Experience , EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      but then doubled from that low point in 2009 after passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and its HITECH Act provisions to spur EHR adoption. And Epic and Cerner were the big winners, with nearly 70 ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Eclipsys   Arra   Electronic Health Records

    25. Feds Give More State MU Planning Funds

      Explore Health Data Management (Aug 3 2010) EHR Adoption , Meaningful Use

      Feds Give More State MU Planning FundsHealth Data ManagementThey will use the funds for such activities as analyzing the current status of health information technology, examining barriers to EHR adoption, ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Indiana   New Hampshire   Electronic Health Records

    26. Final MU Ruling. What You Need to Know NOW!

      Explore Health Data Management (Jul 15 2010) EHR Meaningful Use , Meaningful Use

      Final MU Ruling. What You Need to Know NOW!Health Data ManagementThe final EHR meaningful use criteria were just released by the federal government. But do you know all the details? Are you sure you understand the ruling ...and more » (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   CIO   Dallas   Electronic Health Records