The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) recently held its annual meeting and issued new guidelines for interoperability among electronic health record (EHR) systems.
It would make sense for healthcare providers to show these videos on monitors in waiting rooms, on tablets for patient registration and on their websites.
The home care industry is booming. As Baby Boomers age and more families seek in-home solutions for loved ones, demand for home care services is at an all-time high.
That number may be a tad misleading, however, because possession of an EHR system means the hospital has a signed contract with a vendor. It doesn't mean the system is in place.
Notably, the proposed rule would remove some of the most hated elements of Meaningful Use, including the pass-fail nature of reporting on EHR and quality measures. It also calls for reducing the number of EHR measures from 18 to 11 and eliminating reporting on clinical decision support and CPOE.
The proposed rule, released Tuesday morning, allows the ONC to review certified health IT products for information blocking, and well as potential risks to patient safety and public health.
ONC paints an awfully rosy picture of the current state of health IT, specifically in the area of consumer access. Small practices may beg to differ.
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The final version is not all that different from a draft released in January, but there are a few changes. "There is a significant focus on near-term goals," Erica Galvez, ONC's interoperability manager, told reporters.
To D.J. Patil, those without well-designed health IT systems might as well be Superman in the face of Kryptonite.
Break down the silos. Take control of your provider data.
Health IT obviously should be part of public health surveillance efforts because epidemiology relies so heavily on data.
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The problem may have been due to a miscommunication between whoever green-lighted a blog post announcing the complaint page last Friday and whoever was responsible for getting the actual page online.
It's not easy for those wishing to report problems with health IT systems.