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There is a little known but potential Stage 1 nightmare for EPs as they prepare for Meaningful Use attestation for the CMS EHR incentives. The attestation process as described in the CMS Attestation User Guide for EPs requires the inputting of numerators and denominators documenting the meaningful use of each percentage based measure. Where do [...]
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jim Tate in HITECH Updates, Meaningful Use OK, so now we are starting to hear from many sources that Stage 2 MU will be delayed. Just a matter of time they say. So while we are waiting for that shoe to fall we might as well take a look [...]
Every webinar, conference call, FAQ site, or provider forum I attend these days seems to expose the confusion on what the EP has to meet to obtain the maximum amount of money and what they have to attest to prove they are meaningful users. These are not the same thing and one has nothing to [...]
Established in 1976, the Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the Inspector General (OIG) fights waste, fraud and abuse to over 300 HHS programs including Medicare, Medicaid, CDC, NIH, and FDA. They are currently the largest OIG office in the Federal Government employing 1700 people. Through nationwide audits, investigations, and evaluations this OIG reports [...]
One of my favorite magazines, Harvard Business Review (HBR), in its latest June issue has an article called “The Ambidextrous CEO” that is worth reading because it highlights innovation in healthcare IT (with a good story from Misys), specifically around open source. Here’s a point they made that’s worth repeating:Our research suggests that firms thrive [...]
T-System to Offer Enhanced Diagnosis Decision Support to Emergency Depart. Physicians T-System to Offer Enhanced Diagnosis Decision Support to Emergency Department Physicians ED information system supports fast and accurate diagnoses with integrated decision support DALLAS May 31, 2011 As part of a commitment to continuously enhance its solutions, T-System, Inc. today announced it will integrate [...]
The Center for Business Innovation (TCBI), run by my friend Satish Kavirajan, is currently organizing the Business Intelligence & Analytics for Healthcare Conference & Exhibition: Managing Data to Drive Quality, Financial Performance & Accountable Care, to be held in San Diego on July 11-12, 2011. I’m an advisor for the conference, will be speaking on several [...]
Patricia Walling, a graduate student who has both professional and volunteer experience in a hospital environment, reached out to me via e-mail recently about some of her ideas of how physicians can communicate with their patients through social networking. I liked her ideas and invited her to put together an guest posting on the subject. [...]
Even a 10 percent increase in the hospital use of electronic medical records could save 16 babies for every 100,000 live births in the U.S. And, making a complete national transition to EHRs could save an estimated 6,400 infants each year nationwide, according to a new study published in the Journal of Political Economy. The [...]
The Council for Affordable Quality Healthcare (CAQH) has launched a transition committee to make recommendations about multi-stakeholder governance of its Committee on Operating Rules for Information Exchange (CORE). The CORE project, which CAQH began in 2005, has created rules for the exchange of information related to healthcare coverage and insurance payments. CORE seeks to enable [...]
