In an interview published in the New York Times’ “Pogue’s Posts,” National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal discussed federal efforts to promote electronic health record interoperability and ensure the security of heath data.
Interoperability
Blumenthal said his office is undertaking efforts to help different EHR systems connect and share data. He said, ‘We’re gonna be helping [...]
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Kaiser Permanente announced that it has secured about $54 million in NIH grants for an electronic health record data mining project and other medical research initiatives, the San Francisco Business Times reports (Rauber, San Francisco Business Times, 10/12).
The federal economic stimulus package provided the funding for the 22 grants (DerGurahian, Modern Healthcare, 10/12).
EHR Data Mining [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 20th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Mary Mosquera
The Health & Human Services Department hopes to exploit electronic heath record systems to reduce the persistent gap in health outcomes that exists between minority communities and the rest of population, an HHS official said today.
Health IT and other technologies would enable providers to collect and share data to help identify minority and [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 14th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Mary Mosquera
Dr. David Blumenthal, the national health IT coordinator, said yesterday his office will explain “in the coming weeks” how it will define a “certified” electronic health record,” which providers must purchase in order to qualify for new federal health IT incentive payments.
In an e-mail message, Blumenthal gave a preview of what further guidance [...]
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Recently enacted government mandates requiring healthcare practices to switch to electronic health records (EHR) have created a huge demand for EHR systems and services. And since the mandates offer both incentives for early adoption and penalties for delaying EHR conversion, many chiropractors are highly motivated to purchase and install such systems as quickly as possible.
However, [...]
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Health care organizations that developed their own electronic health records systems likely will be able to get them certified as being compliant with the meaningful use requirements of the federal EHR incentive program next year.
The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology next year plans to develop a “site certification” program for hospitals and [...]
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The plan will rely on federal grants and build on previous state efforts to expand health IT adoption in underserved rural areas.
By Pamela Lewis Dolan,
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that would create a loan program for physicians and hospitals hoping to buy an electronic health record system.
The Electronic Health Records [...]
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The secondary use of data collected in electronic medical records will be the key to greater quality and cost savings in the next five years, according to a new report.
The report, released Thursday by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), based on a survey of more than 700 individuals representing providers, payers and drug companies, found that three-quarters agree [...]
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This week, the American Medical Association’s House of Delegates adopted new policies regarding health IT security breaches, government subsidies for electronic health records and open-source EHR systems, Modern Healthcare reports (Robeznieks, Modern Healthcare, 6/17).
The group announced the new guidelines during its annual meeting in Chicago (HealthDay News/Modern Medicine, 6/16).
Security Breaches
The new AMA policy offers guidance [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on September 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Bernie Monegain, Editor
EHR adoption and finances remain the top challenges facing medical practices, according to a new survey from the Medical Group Management Association.
For the second year in a row, medical practice professionals sounded off to the MGMA about a variety of challenges faced while safeguarding their practices’ financial solvency.
The 2009 survey “Medical practice today: [...]
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