Former senators push health IT initiatives
To accelerate adoption of HIEs, the task force recommends that the next EHR meaningful use phase reward physicians for “more robust exchange of standards-based data across multiple settings.”...
View ArticleFull throttle on EMR use in garrison
A new policy was just issued by U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) about battalion aid station (BAS) health care documentation in garrison. From now on, all BASs in garrison are required to...
View ArticleObamacare On Trial: The Potential Repercussions For Health IT
Remember, the Patient Protection And Affordable Care Act is what is on trial here, not the HITECH Act that lays the groundwork for the EHR Meaningful Use incentive road map and other health IT stimulus...
View ArticleCan Hospitals Bully Physician Practices to Use their EHR?
PricewaterhouseCoopers, in a recent briefing, found an overlap of 58 percent between quality measures required of an ACO and measures to achieve EHR meaningful use. Even more so, as a part of CMS’s...
View ArticleMeaningful use boosts earnings of for-profit hospitals
A Fitch Ratings report showed that EHR meaningful use incentives helped six for-profit hospital groups add a cumulative $396 million in earnings before interest, taxes, debt and amortization in 2011....
View Article5 Reasons to Register for the Meaningful Use Program
^Featured Written by Zubin Emsley, CEO of ChartLogic Inc. | June 21, 2012 Social sharing This article is written by Zubin Emsley, CEO of ChartLogic Inc. The strong momentum for physician adoption of...
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How To Embrace BYOD Without Compromising Health Data Security
However, perhaps the biggest BYOD inhibitor for IT is time. “With EHR Meaningful Use, ICD-10, and other high-level technology initiatives, health IT resources are limited,” says Bob Nilsson, director...
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Forget About Meaningful Use
August 1, 2012 Ken Congdon By Ken Congdon, editor in chief, Healthcare Technology Online Follow Me On Twitter @KenOnHIT Don’t let the title of this article fool you. I’m a proponent of the EHR...
View Article5 Steps to Prepare for a CMS Audit of EHR Meaningful Use Incentive Payments
^Featured Written by Zubin Emsley, CEO, ChartLogic Inc. | August 02, 2012 Social sharing This article is written by Zubin Emsley, CEO, ChartLogic Inc. On July 24 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...
View ArticleTop Challenges Facing Healthcare CIOs
Few industries face as many IT challenges as healthcare, where government mandates, security requirements and a need to replace outdated technology make a CIO's job difficult.
View ArticleFeds Have Given $7.7B in EHR Money to Doctors, Hospitals
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has dispensed more than $7.7B in reimbursement payments to physicians and hospitals deploying electronic health records.
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See You In Health: Cloud Computing For The Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry has been making its move toward technology, putting iPads and tablets into the hands of healthcare professionals and now, the latest big move has been adopting the concept of...
View ArticleMeaningful Use Drives Physician EHR Boom
Physicians are responding to the promise of bonuses for electronic health records adoption — and the threat of penalties if they don’t.
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Box Takes Electronic Health Records to the Cloud
Healthcare providers were among the first industries to use tablets and other mobile devices, but leveraging them fully has been difficult due to regulations that protect electronic health records and...
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A better way to share and store electronic health records
Box's foray into confusing world of digital health data could be the first step toward consumerizing this messy tech
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U.S. Doctors Ramp Up 'Routine' Use of EHRs, E-Prescribing: Report
U.S. doctors have increased their adoption of digital health records and electronic prescribing at twice the rate of other countries.
View ArticleEHR Meaningful Use Dropout Rate Soars in 2012 - Aafp News Now
As U.S. physicians continue to embrace electronic health records (EHRs), data on CMS' EHR incentive program holds both positive and troubling news regarding family physicians' participation and success...
View ArticleWhat is driving the drop in meaningful use participation?
Meaningful use criteria have certainly stimulated both dialogue and EHR adoption within the healthcare community. But for some physicians, the use of EHR is a strategic investment in the consistency...
View ArticleFinally … Proof Of Health It ROI
Opponents of HITECH's $27-billion EHR Meaningful Use program have long argued that while the financial incentives have been successful at promoting EHR adoption, the technology itself has not delivered...
View ArticleHealthcare IT Struggles to Keep Up With Mobile Health Demands
Healthcare, like most industries, finds its hard to meet the mobility desires of employees (caregivers) and customers (patients). But while healthcare struggles with unique legal and regulatory...
View ArticleA brave new world of health care data
Electronic Health Records (EHRs) have sparked the necessity for new positions that no one really envisioned, creating new opportunities, new challenges and the risk of accidental complexities –...
View ArticleFive EHR security considerations for healthcare CIOs, CISOs
Depending on which day it is, a healthcare CIO or CISO may focus on the EHR Meaningful Use Program's certification standards, data encryption methods or how the organization technical infrastructure is...
View Article"Most Wired" hospitals heavy on clinical analytics, engagement
The 16th annual “Most Wired” hospitals survey has produced a crop of healthcare organizations with a few big things in common: clinical analytics, patient engagement, robust EHR use...
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Health IT Success Hinges on CIO-Business Collaboration
Healthcare CIOs must engage with executives and medical staff to bridge the gap in the enterprise and win support for new IT initiatives.
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How to navigate big data in healthcare
Kaiser Permanente CMIO John Mattison cautions healthcare organizations to take a hard look at the way they approach data to ensure that health information is an asset, not a liability. He also cites...
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With Aternity, Healthcare Providers Spend Less Time on the EHR Interface and...
Aternity Workforce APM arms healthcare IT teams with the capabilities they need to fulfill the goals of Meaningful Use. Transforming patient care and improving financial results begins with...
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How Healthcare Organizations Can Provide Excellent End User Experience to...
Read the third post in this exclusive healthcare IT blog series covering how leading healthcare organizations around the world use Aternity Workforce APM to assure the reliability and quality of the...
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12 tips for better EHR usability
'Developers need to optimize EHR systems to facilitate longitudinal care delivery'
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Despite mHealth hype, healthcare providers slow to invest in M2M, says...
Despite the hype around mobile health products, healthcare providers are dragging their feet when it comes to investing in machine-to-machine communications, says Infonetics Research.
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Mobile App Performance – the Key to mHealth Success
As healthcare orgs adopt mobile, they are looking beyond security to the importance of ensuring their apps deliver the best possible user experience. Unlike other mAPM vendors who focus primarily on...
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What does Electronic Health Record (EHR) and a Burrito have in Common? This...
A summary of the key themes from the recently held CIOsynergy and CIOhealth event, including insights from Netflix’s CEO and healthcare IT execs. Trends around mobile Application Performance Management...
View ArticleHow Healthcare Organizations can Confirm Cloud Providers Meet their SLA...
With 83% of healthcare IT executives reporting that they are using cloud services today, it’s critical to ensure that these cloud providers are delivering a quality end user experience to the medical...
View ArticleNine in 10 Eligible Hospitals Achieve Meaningful Use in 2014
The EHR meaningful use achievement rate for nearly 5,000 eligible hospitals is 90 percent through December 2014, according to the latest numbers from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT.
View ArticleHealth data in the cloud
When it comes to taking advantage of technology, some sectors are more advanced than others. The healthcare industry has traditionally had a patchy relationship with IT. Despite being reliant on...
View ArticleNot All Patients Appear to Benefit From EHR Use
Stroke patients fare about the same in terms of quality of care and illness progression whether their hospitals have embraced electronic health records or not.
View ArticleEnd User Experience Management: Fulfilling the Promise of Mobile Healthcare
Converged digital technologies like virtualization, cloud and mobile are revolutionizing patient care. With interconnected systems, healthcare practitioners can instantly access Electronic Health...
View ArticleAMA Town Hall Complaints: EHR Meaningful Use Still Means Poor Productivity
Doctors at last week’s American Medical Association Town Hall meeting in Atlanta continue to complain about their Electronic Health Records (EHR) experiences. As the AMA reports, current physician...
View ArticleEHR Meaningful Use: Regulations Will Benefit All, With Time
The AMA survey found that 72% of EHRs made it difficult or very difficult for doctors to decrease their workload. Physicians are rightly upset because Meaningful Use attestation is taking a major toll...
View ArticleU.S. Adoption of Electronic Health Records Nears 100 Percent
A survey released at the ONC Annual Meeting found that 96 percent of hospitals had certified EHR technology, compared with 72 percent in 2011.
View ArticleCanadian, U.S. doctors hold different views on EHRs
Many American doctors surveyed think EHRs increase practice costs and reduce productivity. But they like the analytics and few would give up their systems
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