Final EHR Certification Rule Announced By ONC
June 20th, 2010 admin
By DAVID HARLOW A surgeon can’t operate without the proper equipment. A clinician can’t achieve meaningful use of electronic health records without an EHR that is designed to improve patient care and practice efficiency. — David Blumenthal This week David…
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Editor’s Note: For more on electronic health records and meaningul use requirements, see the April issue of Health Affairs, “Health IT: The Road To ‘Meaningful Use’“. This morning, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) for Health Information Technology released...
Editor’s Note: The post below is by David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, and Don Berwick, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Blumenthal will speak later today at a Washington D.C. event, “Advancing Electronic Health Records Adoption and Meaningful Use,” cosponsored...
Joe Paduda hosts the latest edition of the Health Wonk Review at his blog, “Managed Care Matters.” Among the posts included is a Health Affairs Blog essay on the meaningful use of electronic health records by national health IT coordinator David Blumenthal and CMS admnistrator Don Berwick. Copyright
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The forthcoming definition of the “meaningful use” of health information technology will set the direction of the Obama administration’s strategy for health IT adoption, said David Blumenthal, the new national coordinator for health IT. Government HealthIT , April 28, 2009 …but not everyone sees eye-to-eye on the definitions...
By David C. Kibbe and Brian Klepper A surprise move by ONC/HHS indicates the wheels may be falling off health IT reform at about the same rate they’ve fallen off Democrats’ broader health reforms. David Blumenthal and his staff have…
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By DAVID HARLOW The federales announced a new set of HIPAA regulations today (to be published in the Federal Register on July 14) in a press conference featuring Kathleen Sebelius (HHS Secretary), Georgina Verdugo (HHS OCR Director) and David Blumenthal…
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By Brian Klepper and David Kibbe In a discussion about electronic health records (EHRs) a couple weeks ago, one of the Human Resource team members at a prospective client said, “I don’t believe it’s possible to secure electronic health data….
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is reminding interested parties that on March 15, 2010 the comment period closes on the Proposed Rule , which would implement an electronic health records (EHR) incentive program for eligible professionals and eligible hospitals that adopt and meaningfully use certified EHR technology. According...
By Matthew Holt This week we’ve announced the line up (or the first chunk of it) for the 4th annual Health 2.0 Conference in San Francisco Oct 7-8. The conference is the climax of Health Innovation Week — a week…
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By JOHN HALAMKA As a followup to the HIMSS Webinar I gave last week, here’s an FAQ in the spirit of last month’s Meaningful Use and Standards Rule FAQ. 1. The Emergency Department is mentioned in 9 Core Measures and…
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