Has the demise of Meaningful Use been greatly exaggerated?
The Meaningful Use rules still, by law, account for 25 percent of physician scores in the new MIPS program, and EHR certification remains in place.
The Meaningful Use rules still, by law, account for 25 percent of physician scores in the new MIPS program, and EHR certification remains in place.
Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt has shaken the health IT universe this week.
At the Payer Insights sessions on Day 1 of ViVE 2024, a panel on prior authorization offered compelling insights from speakers who shared the positive developments in this area after years of mounting frustration. Speakers also shared challenges as they work with providers to figure out how policy developments and technology will work in practice.
It wasn't the story itself or anything about healthfinch that was controversial, though. It was more about the idea of electronic medical records in the first place.
Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt said more news would be forthcoming March 25.
As the year began, healthfinch announced that it had closed a $7.5 million Series A round of venture capital, led by Adams Street Partners.
2015 was a savage journey to the heart of the Health IT Dream.
In an era of escalating healthcare costs and a growing preference for natural, holistic approaches to health, The Impact Brands emerges as a collective of diverse brands dedicated to supporting overall wellness through natural means.
The assault on usability of EHRs continues, though this time it comes not from physicians, but from nurses. And it makes sense, because nurses frequently are the ones responsible for the bulk of patient documentation.
OpenNotes, once an academic experiment to see if physicians would accept patients viewing encounter notes and if patients could decipher the medicalese, is getting ready to scale, thanks to a large donation.
HCA's recent major EHR outage and healthcare information security as a whole will be the subject of this week's broadcast.
The $250 million deal gives EHR vendor CPSI an entrée into the post-acute health IT market because Healthland Holdings owns American HealthTech.
The TSX Venture Exchange has a strong history of helping early-stage health and life sciences companies raise patient capital for research and development.
The results of Emory's workflow redesign have been impressive. The Atlanta academic health system reported cutting the number of clicks physicians had to go through in the Cerner EHR by a third.
"In the last five years, we have gone from a primarily analog business to a primarily digital business," Dr. Robert Wachter said at AMIA 2015.
It's a name with juice, and perhaps more than a little hint of Apple. But will it bear fruit for the EHR vendor?
Is anyone else as puzzled as we are about all these divergent viewpoints on health IT?
That's the same EHR that primary competitor CVS Health has in its MinuteClinic locations.