The onus is on providers, payers and their technology partners to use the new laws and market dynamics as a catalyst to fully achieve digital transformation in healthcare and improve the patient experience.
We hope that instead of just data mining, Google will start working with HL7 International to expand FHIR in an effort to leverage the promising impact of machine learning in healthcare.
The agency announced plans to overhaul the Meaningful Use program by turning to a focus on interoperability and making it easier for patients to get their records electronically.
During a Tuesday morning session at HIMSS, CMS Administrator Seema Verma announced the MyHealthEData initiative, a government-wide project aimed at giving patients more control over their health information. She also said the agency is planning "a complete overhaul of the Meaningful Use program for hospitals."
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association uncovers the relationship between EHR vendor and Meaningful Use performance.
A new study from JAMA Internal Medicine found hospitals participating in one or more value-based programs have lower readmission rates.
A specialty drug is a class of prescription medications used to treat complex, chronic or rare medical conditions. Although this classification was originally intended to define the treatment of rare, also termed “orphan” diseases, affecting fewer than 200,000 people in the US, more recently, specialty drugs have emerged as the cornerstone of treatment for chronic and complex diseases such as cancer, autoimmune conditions, diabetes, hepatitis C, and HIV/AIDS.
With the election of Republican Donald Trump to the presidency last week, the future of all kinds of healthcare reform is uncertain.
"It's perverse to say people are unengaged and then keep them uninformed," said "e-Patient" Dave deBronkart at MedCity ENGAGE.
This rule does not supplant the existing, much-criticized EHR certification program that has been in place since Meaningful Use came about in 2011.
The culprit, in Mostashari's view, was the Federation of American Hospitals, representing for-profit hospital companies.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
When it comes to the ACA, well, every Republican seems to be against Obamacare — especially the "Obama" part of it — but will delegates and the man at the top of the ticket embrace House Speaker Paul Ryan's replacement plan?
This would bring the EHR incentive program more in line with proposed rules for implementing MACRA, to be phased in starting next year.
Given the size of the document, reactions are trickling rather than flooding in, but sentiments are mixed. There's plenty of confusion, for sure.
Wednesday, a bipartisan group of representatives and senators introduced a succinct bill that would shorten the Meaningful Use reporting period to 90 days for 2016 only, rather than the full year.
As Meaningful Use moved to Stage 3 (MU3) in 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) added APIs (application programming interface) as an alternative or complement to patient portals. But are these two digital health tools at odds with each other? And where do APIs fit in with Meaningful Use Stage 3? An […]
