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• The Real Money is in the ACO, Not Meaningful Use

  
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  John Moore from Chilmark Research offers this great insight for those of us in the healthcare IT and EHR industry: The MU requirements have become little more than a “spec-sheet” for vendors, consultants and IT shops and departments. These requirements have nothing to do with innovation and have little to do ...
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• E-Prescribing and Interoperable Progress Report

  
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  National Progress Report Shows Increased Adoption in e-Prescribing Last week Surescripts released “The National Progress Report on E-Prescribing and Interoperable Healthcare, Year 2011.” The report provides information of the growth in adoption and use of e-prescribing for the year 2011. The Executive Summary ...
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• Allscripts CEO Tullman faces pressure from lawsuit, salary scrutiny

  
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  When it rains, it pours for electronic health record giant Allscripts, which now is battling a lawsuit protesting its revamped board, Reuters reports . In addition, according to Crains Chicago Business, as the companys stock price has fallen, embattled CEO Glen Tullmans compensation soared 76 percent last year. ...
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• Meaningful Use Stage 1 attestation struggles represent big problems for CMS

  
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  There is a growing realization that providers are still struggling to meet Stage 1 requirements for the Meaningful Use incentive program--and officials with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services know they have a potentially huge problem on their hands.      Sure, registration for the incentive program ...
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• iEHR to roll out in 2017

  
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  Much work remains on the joint integrated electronic health record system being created by the Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told reporters earlier this week at Chicagos James A. Lovell Federal Health Care Center, Nextgov reports . The ...
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• Docs still struggling with Meaningful Use attestation

  
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  Physicians continue to be confused by the Meaningful Use incentive program and are having trouble with successful attestation, according to a webinar  this week hosted by Physicians Practice. In the publications recent physician survey, which will be publicly available in July, only slightly more than half of ...
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• HIEs aim to curb ED overuse

  
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  From airing funny advertisements to cutting reimbursement dollars , the healthcare industry is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to curb unnecessary emergency room visits. In Washington state, hospitals are turning to solve the problem. This summer, hospitals in the state will share information about ...
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• Allscripts Tullman: Well do better

  
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  Its been a month of upheaval at electronic health record giant Allscripts, but CEO Glen Tullman told Healthcare IT News in an interview that hes working hard to right the ship. "Many companies would love to have our positioning, our products, our market share and our earnings and cash flow. But to be clear, we ...
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• California replaces Cal eConnect for HIE implementation

  
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  Cal eConnect, which has helped California to launch its health information exchange over the last two years, will be replaced by the Institute for Population Health Improvement, according to an announcement from the states health and human services agency. The Cal eConnect Board, according to a California ...
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• MU Core Measure: Conduct a Security Risk Analysis – Meaningful Use Monday

  
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  Lynn Scheps is Vice President, Government Affairs at EHR vendor SRSsoft . In this role, Lynn has been a Voice of Physicians and SRSsoft users in Washington during the formulation of the meaningful use criteria. Lynn is currently working to assist SRSsoft users interested in showing meaningful use and receiving the ...
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• New paradigms for measuring clinical performance using electronic health records

  
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  Source: Weiner JP et al, International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 24(3) Content: Measures of provider success are the centerpiece of quality improvement and pay-for-performance programs around the globe. In most nations, these measures are derived from administrative records, paper charts and consumer ...
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• Health IT Dates and Deadlines

  
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  Upcoming Health IT Deadlines Health Information Technology Policy Committee Vacancy, a Notice by the Government Accountability Office on 05/11/2012. Letters of nomination and resumes should be submitted between May 5 and 25, 2012 to ensure adequate opportunity for review and consideration of nominees. Nationwide ...
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• Taking care of business at #HealthFoo: Nomination Letter, Regina Holliday, Health IT Policy Committee

  
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  View ’2012 Health Foo Day 2 12411′ on Flickr.com My letter – text is below Almost 3 years to the day (May 28, 2009), I wrote a blog post entitled  “Is it meaningful if patients can’t use it?” , that detailed my first meeting of Regina Holliday ( @ReginaHolliday ,  blog  ). In it, I wondered if ...
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• Meaningful Use Creep

  
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    One of the features of government is it’s inherent native ability to grow, creating a chain reaction of necessities for it’s survival. Organizations always seem to add items piece by piece until a relatively simple idea becomes distorted. Such now seems to be the case for meaningful use as defined by HHS ...
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• Should hospitals risk going broke for Meaningful Use?

  
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  Should officials at cash-strapped hospitals go all-in on electronic health record systems in hopes of receiving a big return via incentive dollars, even if it means spending beyond their means? While Hospitals & Health Networks Haydn Bush outlines one hospitals attempt at doing so, healthsystemCIO.com s Anthony ...
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• HL7 wants more doc participation in EHR standards creation

  
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  Health Level Seven International wants more providers involved in the process of creating electronic health records standards. To that end, the organization, which focuses on interoperability standards for healthcare IT, this week unveiled a pilot membership program for clinicians, as well as an accompanying web page. ...
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• GAO: Doctors should submit more data to get meaningful use money

  
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  Source: Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews Content: “Physicians soon could be required to submit more documentation to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to validate whether they are authorized to receive meaningful use bonuses.Saying that the Medicare incentive program is vulnerable to making improper ...
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• Plumbers, ninjas and doctors

  
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  When my wife told me about her encounter with the plumber, all I could think was: "What a jerk!" Then I was hit with an eerie sense of familiarity. OK, it wasnt exactly eerie, but there was some creepy music in the background. We had a shower fixed about a year ago, costing us a bunch of money. I would do it myself, ...
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• Achieving Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology – A Guide for Physicians to the EHR Incentive Programs

  
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  Source: Marcotte L et al, Archives of Internal Medicine, 172(9) Content: Over 30 000 clinicians have already qualified to receive initial incentive payments for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) EHR Incentive Programs. However, 2012 is ...
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• EHRs can improve data quality

  
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  Source: QAS Content: “Meaningful Use is a set of criteria that healthcare providers must meet to ensure they are using electronic health records appropriately and efficiently. The second stage of Meaningful Use incorporates a physician’s ability to give patients access to their EHRs. A recent webinar by the ...
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