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• Two EMR Stimulus Questions

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve get all sorts of interesting emails sent to me because of this site. Many people send me questions and as much as I can I try to answer them. In fact, it’s usually quite fun if I have the time. This time someone sent a couple interesting questions about the EMR stimulus money and their practice which ...
  5 hours ago

• Search for New CCHIT Chair

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  Now that Mark Leavitt announced that he was leaving CCHIT , it’s going to be interesting to see who will replace him as the Chair of CCHIT. Healthcare Informatics has an interview with CCHIT search committee chair and CCHIT trustee, Frank Trembulak (Geisinger Health System EVP and COO) that’s worth reading to ...
  4 days ago

• The “Real Facts” about eMRs with .ppt Presentation

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 132
  A Guest Thought-Leader PresentationAnn Miller; RN, MHA [Executive Director]By Alberto Borges; MDIn this colorful MSFT PowerPoint presentation, ME-P thought-leader and colleague, Al Borges MD dispels a plethora of eMR myths. He discusses the true cost of eMR implementation, and presents his views on the dark side of ...
  4 days ago

• CCHIT announces new comprehensive certification and preliminary ARRA products

  
  EHR Decisions — Authority: 100
  Today, the Certification Commission announced the first group of products certified under its two new programs— CCHIT Certified® 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011 . The CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive program differs from the Preliminary ARRA certification program by providing a more rigorous ...
  6 days ago

• Leavitt Retiring from CCHIT

  
  The Medical Quack — Authority: 534
  CCHIT, the certification for electronic medical records and standards has been in the news quite a bit lately, even with a company in Texas making the offer to certify records.  As technology gets more complicated and certification of the algorithms used for records gets more complicated, so goes the processes ...
  3 weeks ago

• Mark Leavitt Leaves CCHIT

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  Today the big news was that Mark Leavitt is leaving his role as chairman of CCHIT. Healthcare IT news reported on the announcement: “The board accepts Mark’s decision with reluctance but appreciates his commitment to overseeing a seamless transition,” said H. Stephen Lieber, chairman of the board of ...
  3 weeks ago

• CCHIT going on almost as if nothing happened

  
  ICMCC Website Articles — Authority: 151
  “One of the big controversies early this year was over the role CCHIT was playing, certifying vendors to sell Electronic Health Record (EHR) software.CCHIT (Certification Commission for Health Information Technology) was formed in 2004 out of HIMSS (Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society), an industry ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stimulus Fuels Gold Rush For Electronic Health Systems: Huffington Post

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  I heard about this story on Huffington Post from David Kibbe, founding father of the Clinical Groupware Collaborative (CGwC). Heres a quote that struck my eye: Federal officials wont decide until early next year which types of systems to certify. But some of the worlds largest companies, including General Electric, ...
  4 weeks ago

• New EHR Certifying Body – Drummond Group

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve had real problems with the idea of there only being one EHR certifying body for a while now. I think competition usually brings the best out of organizations and forces them to be better than they would have been had there been no competition. Plus, it usually brings the price of things down also. With ...
  4 weeks ago

• "Meaningful Use" competition for CCHIT - from FierceHealthIT

  
  Future of Health IT: Trends and Scenarios — Authority: 121
  Its the news weve been waiting for since June, when the Healthcare IT Policy Committee recommended that there be multiple entities that certify EHRs for compliance with federal "meaningful use" standards: A group has come forward to say it may compete with the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information ...
  4 weeks ago

• EHR Certification Reference Sites – CCHIT

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  Every couple posts I have to write about CCHIT or EHR certification. It’s one of my favorite topics to write about, and I believe it’s one of my readers favorite topics as well (at least that’s what traffic tells me). Today I want to take a look at what I believe is a new addition to the CCHIT 2011 EHR ...
  5 weeks ago

• Healthcare Informatics: One-on-One With CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, part 2

  
  EHR Decisions — Authority: 100
  Anthony Guerra of Healthcare Informatics continues his interview with CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, MD, PhD . In part 2, they discuss the policy committee’s recommendations, CCHIT’s response to those recommendations, and the effects of ARRA on certification. Read the entire interview starting with part 1 and ...
  5 weeks ago

• CCHIT EHR Certification Enters EMR Usability World

  
  EMR and HIPAA — Authority: 128
  I’ve been sitting on this post for a while. I figured it was finally time that we talked an interesting development in the CCHIT EHR certification: EMR usability testing. They first presented some of the details of this testing during the CCHIT training meeting. However, they also partnered with User Centric to ...
  5 weeks ago

• Criticizing Electronic Medical Records?

  
  Medical Executive-Post @ Healthcare Financials.com — Authority: 132
  By Brent A. Metfessel; MD, MSBy Staff Writerswww.HealthcareFinancials.comDespite ARRA and the HITECH initiatives, eMRs are not without drawbacks. And, with apologies to USCTO Aneesh Chopra, we list the following.   List of DrawbacksThe following are some of the more notable negatives:Operator dependence — The term ...
  5 weeks ago

• The Meaning of Meaningful Use of EMR

  
  Medical Practice Trends.com — Authority: 92
  If you talk to anyone who is involved in the electronic medical records (EMR) industry, one of the biggest points of discussion is what is known as “Meaningful Use of EMR.” What started as a well-intentioned (by some) effort to establish standards for EMR software systems has morphed into political jockeying by ...
  5 weeks ago

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