Hospitals and physicians should be required to report data glitches in patients’ electronic health records to a national patient safety organization beginning in 2013, according to the Health IT Policy Committee’s adoption and certification work group, Federal Computer Week reports.
On Monday, the work group considered a draft proposal that evaluated best practices for electronic reporting [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on April 6th, 2010 | No Comments »
The Certification Commission for Healthcare IT has announced plans to offer certification programs for electronic health record systems targeting women’s health and cancer specialists, InformationWeek reports.
CCHIT made its announcement during the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society’s 2010 conference in Atlanta (Kolbasuk McGee, InformationWeek, 3/2).
The American Society of Clinical Oncology and the American Congress of [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on March 3rd, 2010 | No Comments »
Catholic Healthcare West announced plans to increase its system-wide budget for electronic health records to more than $1 billion, the San Francisco Business Times reports.
CHW’s board of directors originally allocated $590 million to implement acute-care and ambulatory information systems at all of its 41 hospitals over the next seven years.
However, after successfully implementing EHR systems [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on February 26th, 2010 | No Comments »
By Neil Versel
Health Level Seven has published the health IT industry’s first ANSI-approved standard for using EHR information in clinical research. The standard–known as Electronic Health Record Clinical Research Functional Profile and based on the HL7 EHR System Functional Model Release 1–is a roadmap for integrating data to support both patient care and clinical research [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on November 18th, 2009 | No Comments »
Although the federal government has yet to release final certification criteria for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records, the Certification Commission for Health IT is continuing to serve as the industry’s primary EHR certifier, ZDNet Healthcare reports.
In 2004, the trade group Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society helped found CCHIT. For several years, the [...]
Filed under: ARRA, EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on November 17th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Mary Mosquera
Healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs next year, according to an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The revisions are designed “to promote adoption and use of electronic health [...]
Filed under: ARRA, EHR, Health Care on November 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Turna Ray
As more healthcare providers move to implement electronic health records by 2011, the technologies for storing and managing these vast data sets will need to be regulated, an advisor to the federal government said at a conference here this week.
“There is some form of oversight necessary,” John Glaser, senior advisor of the Office [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
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 [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
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, [...]
Filed under: EHR, Health Care on October 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
Most people know switching from paper to electronic health records (EHR) can save their practice lots of time and money, while increasing compliance with HIPPA as well. However, some might not be aware the most advanced EHR systems can also facilitate numerous other practice-management tasks.
The leading EHR systems are loaded with a wealth of features [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »
