ONC Offers Rural Providers Some Health Information Exchange Guidance
Made available through the ONC’s National Rural Health Resource Center, the toolkit provides a set of “practical” HIE resources designed to help rural health stakeholders, including State Offices of...
View ArticleBill Would Prohibit HHS From Mandating ICD-10 Transition
Rep. Ted Poe (R-Texas) has introduced a bill (HR 1701) that would prohibit HHS from mandating that health care providers switch to ICD-10 code sets, ICD-10 Watch reports (Natale, ICD-10 Watch, 4/25)....
View ArticleE-Prescribing Deadline Approaching
Clinicians slow to adapt to digital medicine have until June 30 to electronically transmit 10 prescriptions to the pharmacy for Medicare patients, and thereby avoid a 2% cut in their Medicare...
View ArticleTop Impacts of Problem Lists on Interoperability and Meaningful Use
During last week’s webcast, held by the Health Resources and Services Administration, presenters from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and Blackstone...
View ArticleElectronic Health Data Gaining Favor
More than half of U.S. doctors have switched to electronic health records and are using them to manage patients’ basic medical information and prescriptions, according to federal data set to be...
View ArticleUnderstanding Meaningful Use — Testing the HL7 V2 Messaging Standards
Understanding Meaningful Use with a Focus on Testing the HL7 Version 2 Messaging Standards Use of electronic health records (EHRs), especially systems with clinical decision support capabilities, has...
View ArticleWhat Health IT Is Necessary To Support Accountable Care
The development and use of a health IT framework for accountable care organizations (ACOs) will help minimizing risks associated with forming these risk-based partnerships between healthcare...
View ArticlePatient Portals, A Stepwise Approach
Here, David Linthicum discusses the importance of data integration in the realm of patient portals. Data integration is an important aspect of heath data management. However, it’s often overlooked as a...
View ArticleHow EHR Adoption Impacts Patient Safety In The ED
The usability of EHR systems as defined by meaningful use has implications on care quality and patient safety and no more so than in emergency departments, according to a recent study in the Annals of...
View ArticleTop 6 Benefits of Integrating ICD-10 Codes
The transition from ICD-9 to ICD-10 codes in October 2014 goes hand in hand with the goal of healthcare reform to improve quality and decrease the cost of care. With more than 171,000 codes as compared...
View ArticleHow To Maximize Your Meaningful Use Incentives
If you haven’t started your meaningful use reporting yet, don’t despair. Eligible professionals (EPs) that are new to the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2013 can still receive a big payday from CMS...
View ArticleTop 4 Reasons the Federal E-Prescribing Incentive Program Works
Federal incentive dollars have been instrumental in significantly increasing doctor use of electronic prescribing tools, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. The study,...
View ArticleHL7 Announces Certification Examinations Now Available Online
Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA – July 1, 2013 – Health Level Seven® International (HL7®), the global authority for interoperability and standards in healthcare information technology with members in 55...
View ArticleMost Health Care Records Are Now Electronic
An ever-expanding amount of the nation’s medical records — millions of prescriptions, medical reports and appointment reminders — are now computerized and part of an ambitious electronic medical...
View ArticleWhat the Most Common ICD-9 Codes Become in ICD-10
The 10th edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) is getting closer, and some physician concerns are becoming more concrete. Will it be difficult to get the codes right? Will...
View ArticleNew FAQs Clarify More EHR Meaningful Use Measures
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has added five new Frequently Asked Questions related to health information exchange and public health reporting requirements under the electronic health...
View ArticleSensitivity of E-Health Data Not Used In Care A Low Concern For Patients
Patients whose electronic health data is used for secondary purposes aside from their own care aren’t terribly concerned with the sensitivity of such information, but are interested in why the...
View ArticleHHS, ONC Develop Strategy To Accelerate HIE, Interoperability
Health information exchange (HIE) is critical to the success of EHR adoption and meaningful use, says the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC), which is trying to drive HIE towards its full...
View ArticleE-prescribing Continues Growth Among Docs
Today, eight of every 10 doctors in Michigan send patient prescriptions to the pharmacy electronically. The increased adoption of technology in the health care industry furthers the trend of recent...
View ArticleICD-10 Arrives Early In New Claims Form
The U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) announced on Thursday that Medicare will begin accepting a revised CMS-1500 form (version 02/12) on January 6, 2014....
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