At BIDMC, we've already achieved 100% EHR adoption and 90% Meaningful Use attestation among our clinician community. Now that the foundation is laid, I believe our next body of ...
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Under stage 2 of Meaningful Use, patient and family access to data sources will be required. This will prevent the confusion that resulted in my mom being prescribed 22 medications ...
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Massachusetts has created a three year, three phased HIE plan based on “pushing” records from place to place, creating analytic repositories, and “pulling” data from providers based on a centralized ...
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One major issue facing private and public Health Information Exchanges (HIE) is how to ensure patients privacy preferences are respected by obtaining their consent before data is shared. This Boston ...
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Everyone — almost every one – had something to say about yesterday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling that upheld most of the Affordable Care Act. We talked to people from all ...
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Most health IT interoperability and connectivity discussions these days center around HL7, CCD, and other structured data interchange. However, the vast majority of data (in terms of size) is shared ...
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CMS EHR Incentives: The Dark SideThe US Federal Government is spending untold billions of dollars in an effort to promote the transition of our health care system from one based ...
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