Electronic Health Record

 
Feds say big data rewards 3 years away
April 16, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
IT obstacles remain and until those challenges are met, big data will be problematic for federal agencies and industry, according to a survey of leading thinkers in the realm.
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E-prescribing market soars toward $794 million
April 16, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
A new report finds that the market will approach $800 million by 2017 largely fueled by a few established and some smaller companies.
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HIMSS EHR Association opposes user fee
April 15, 2013 |
Bernie Monegain
A fee in President Obama's proposed budget for 2014 would charge HIT vendors. The EHR Association countered that its members are already facing significant costs related to certification.
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Vets mostly found benefits in PHRs, study finds
April 11, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
In a focus group, veterans who had access to a variety of their healthcare data cited improved communications with their providers and improved self-management.
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3 ways to make data protection more patient-centric
April 9, 2013 |
Rick Kam
The missing ingredient in many PHI privacy and security efforts? The patient. Rick Kam offers suggestions on how to change that.
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States focus on consumer experience in Medicaid modernization
April 8, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
Nearly 50 years after the creation of Medicaid, the program faces steep financial challenges. Modernizing the IT systems underpinning Medicaid promises to usher in a more consumer-friendly era.
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Meaningful use incentive payments reach nearly $12.7B
April 8, 2013 |
Diana Manos
A CMS official said that the agency is starting to see more Medicaid eligible providers as meaningful users rather than just hospitals.
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Trends in EHR vendor strength in 6 charts
April 8, 2013 |
Robert Rowley, MD
Robert Rowley, MD, delves into CMS data reported from meaningful use attestation and thus "arguably the most accurate source, free from vendor hyperbole," to determine which vendors are gaining ground, those that are sinking, and find patterns of doctors switching EHRs.
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Pennsylvania Gov. lauds state-funded data center
April 5, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
With a $3.2 million grant from a program launched by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, Holy Spirit Health System is renovating an old strip mall building for an integrated data center.
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4 ways HIT bolsters trust between providers and patients
April 5, 2013 |
Benjamin Harris
Lapses in security and myriad confusing protocols don't help much when it comes to fostering patients' trust in health IT. Data breaches and unfamiliar technology, in fact, can scare people away. But they don't have to.
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ONC partnership eyes interoperability through governance
April 4, 2013 |
Anthony Brino
A new cooperative agreement between the ONC, Direct Trust and the EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup will be crafting implementation and security accreditations to expand HIE -- one route to interoperability governance that does not require complicated (or controversial) national regulations.
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HIT Policy Committee questions CommonWell goals
April 4, 2013 |
Diana Manos
Will the CommonWell Health Alliance bolster EHR interoperability or ultimately inhibit it?
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Mobile HIX enrollment: A critical asset for ACA success
February 13, 2013 |
Lucy Streett
A large percentage of the Americans that the Affordable Care Act aims to bring into the insurance pool access the Web primarily through their smartphones. For the ACA to achieve its potential, federal and state governments must reach those citizens where it's most convenient for the consumer.
Ethics or innovation: Which comes first?
February 8, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
To put it mildly, the transition to EHRs comes freighted with a whole host of expectations.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 8, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
The leaning of CMS and ONC, EHR confidence men, and did anyone really think that the DoD and VA would get to iEHR, on budget and time?
Merge, Surescripts link to help providers with meaningful use Stage 2
February 5, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
Stage 2 of meaningful use calls for providers to have electronic access to at least 10 percent of the radiological images they've ordered. The companies claim this partnership will help transport those images into an EHR.
Why HIE hinges on terminology standards
February 4, 2013 |
Viet Nguyen, MD
That the industry needs standards to facilitate the flow of data is widely understood. It's figuring out what those should be that's proving to be difficult.
Informaticists offer EHR safety recommendations
February 1, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association points to the airline industry as an example healthcare might be wise to follow, at least in some ways.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
February 1, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... HIE, HIT in a single act play, Vermont continues toward single-payer, reauthorized funding for public health, and the feds at HIMSS13.
3 ways Pew survey's health trackers collect data
January 29, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project found that among the ways patients track health data, they're not harnessing IT nearly as much as they could be.
Beware the chart eating virus
January 28, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
IT is great, except when it isn't.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
January 25, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
This Week in Government Health IT ... the omnibus rule from several different perspectives, state CIOs top priorities, and consumerizing health services.
Free the health IT imagination!
January 23, 2013 |
Jeff Rowe
One great upside to government intervention in a project as massive as the health IT transition is that, assuming there are adequate financial resources involved, government action can pave the way forward and provide the means to get there.
Editor's Desk: T.W.I.G. Notes
January 18, 2013 |
Tom Sullivan
Meaningful use stage ... 3! The potential for organized crime to purloin millions of medical records, 3 ways to turn HIE into a functioning market, and HIT perspectives from around the globe.