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Response to ONC RFI on advancing interoperability of EHRs and HIE

Published Wed, Apr 04 2013 7:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, ONC, electronic health records, HIE, interoperability, David Harlow, HHS, People in healthcare, Regina Holliday, Technology in healthcare, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, direct access to labs, Change Management, health information exchanges, empowered patients, Society for Participatory Medicine, attestation information, HealthBlawg, meaningful use stage 3, Blue Button Plus, Dr. Mostashari, Health Foo
Electronic Health Records Not Only Don’t Save Money…. They Increase Health Care Costs?

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 10:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, EHR, Health IT, Health information technology, electronic health records, Health Care Quality, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Jaan Sidorov, health care costs, Effectiveness/Efficiency, Disease Management Care Blog, unnecessary services, diagnoses, health care waste, US Senate, unnecessary medical testing, code creep, partisanship
ONC Holds A Key To the Structural Deficit

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 7:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HITECH, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, data security, interoperability, HHS, Shared Savings, social security, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, consumer engagement, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Change Management, employers and health insurance, TED talks about health, health information exchanges, health insurance exchanges, Society for Participatory Medicine, health care costs, patient advocates, health care incentives, unnecessary services, Triple Aim, The Health Care Blog, subsidies, patient privacy, health care technology, DirectTrust, Blue Button Plus, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD, pricing transparency, consolidation
The 128-Byte Data Field That Could Save Lives and Billions of Dollars

Published Thu, Apr 04 2013 8:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: hipaa, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HIMSS, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, Patient Engagement, interoperability, FDA, HHS, Congress, HITECH Act, People in healthcare, Technology in healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Forbes, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Change Management, Dan Munro, TED talks about health, Hugo Campos, PATIENT-CENTERED, health care costs, Effectiveness/Efficiency, government regulation, health care incentives, standard protocol, health care waste, medical device data and HIPAA, national patient identifier, national provider identifier
The #CommonWell Open Discussion Forum

Published Sun, Mar 03 2013 6:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, EHR, Health IT, ONC, Medicaid, Health information technology, electronic health records, HHS, Entrepreneurs, Sustainability, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Incentive, Technology in healthcare, wireless health, Innovation/innovative companies, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, morality, Change Management, health information exchanges, Society for Participatory Medicine, Price Transparency, prescribed mobile apps, healthcare IT vendors, The Health Care Blog, Blue Button Plus, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD
Behind the Curtain of Healthcare’s New CommonWell Alliance

Published Wed, Mar 03 2013 9:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: hipaa, CMS, EHR, Health IT, HIMSS, Health information technology, electronic health records, data security, Tweets, interoperability, Patient Safety, Innovation, People in healthcare, Technology in healthcare, McKesson, Forbes, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Change Management, Dan Munro, health care disruption, Medical Humanities, health care costs, Cerner Corp., The Health Care Blog, corporations, Tavenner, Athena Health, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD, national patient identifier
“Readmits Are Not A Quality Measure”: Q&A With Harvard’s Ashish Jha MD, MPH

Published Mon, Mar 03 2013 5:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: CMS, EHR, electronic health records, Congestive Heart Failure, telemedicine, Innovation, evidence-based medicine, Health Care Quality, Medical research, Health affairs, People in healthcare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, New England Journal of Medicine, Innovation/innovative companies, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Obamacare, mortality, Massachussets health care, Bradley Flansbaum, The Hospitalist Leader, myocardial infarction, primary care physicians, hospital quality measures, Ashish Jha, policymakers, pneumonia, readmission, MEDPAC, 30-day readmissions, Medicare Payment Advisory Commission
Humetrix aims to bring iBlueButton to the UK

Humetrix, the Del Mar, Calif.-based maker of mobile health information exchange app iBlueButton, is demonstrating its technology for the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) this week. Like so many healthcare entities around the world, the NHS has been struggling to make electronic health records available and accessible to patients. The NHS has a statutory deadline of [...] Read More...

Published Thu, Mar 03 2013 7:02 AM by mobihealthnews

Filed under: CMS, Uncategorized, EMR, EHR, ONC, Cerner, NHS, Blue Button, UK mobile health, iBlueButton, HIMSS13, Humetrix
ACO Here, ACO There, ACO, ACO Everywhere & Vendor Response

In less than two years we have gone from Accountable Care Organization (ACO) as a concept, to ACO as a new model of care delivery. With the January announcement that there were 106 more added to the Medicare ACO program, … Continue reading →

Published Fri, Feb 02 2013 4:30 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, EHR, health information exchange, ACO, consumer health, Acquisition, Analytics, Connected Health, Epic, Cerner, consumer engagement, Aetna, McKesson, RelayHealth, CareEvolution
CMS Releases December 2012 EHR Data and Reports – 355k Registered, >$10B Payments Issued

As of December 2012, more than 355,000 hospitals and healthcare professionals registered for the EHR incentive programs and more than 190,000 health care providers received payment totally over $10 billion for participating in the Medicare and Medicaid...

Published Thu, Jan 01 2013 10:39 AM by Ethan W. Moore

Filed under: CMS, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Healthcare, HITECH, ARRA, HIT, Health information technology, attestation, Healthcare News, Health care, HHS, Incentive payments, HITECH Act, Health Care Reform, EHR incentive, Incentive Program, Ethan W. Moore, Ethan Moore, EHR Incentive Programs, Attest
2013 – A Year of Surprises

In the blink of an eye, a New Year has appeared and with it the need to look into our crystal ball (or is it a magic 8 ball) to make our annual predictions for the healthcare IT sector. Personally, … Continue reading →

Published Mon, Jan 01 2013 12:44 PM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, EHR, health information exchange, ACO, consumer health, Acquisition, Analytics, Connected Health, Fitbit, mHealth, WebMD, consumer engagement, Nike, biometric
Broadening the Nature of Interoperability

As the headlines surrounding Stage 2 focus on specific interoperability tied to summary of care, information exchange in many forms is really the broader theme as meaningful use helps drive care coordination. As Stage 2 nears, it’s time to nurture caregivers...

Published Tue, Dec 12 2012 1:13 PM by BlogEHR

Filed under: CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, ONC, Justin Barnes, interoperability, ACO, Shared Savings, care coordination, HealthIT, value-based medicine
Cerner Takes a Road Less Traveled

Cerner is embarking on a journey of transformation. That transformation, if successful, will culminate in Cerner becoming more than a health IT company to becoming a health company. They’ve tested much of this strategy internally with onsite campus...

Published Mon, Nov 11 2012 8:40 AM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, EHR, HIT, HIE, consumer health, Analytics
And, Then They Said No!

Published Mon, Nov 11 2012 4:00 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EMR, EHR, Health IT, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, electronic health records, electronic medical records, Physicians, hospitals, Congress, Medicare Fraud, People in healthcare, Health care professionals, Fraud, New York Times, Technology in healthcare, Payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Secretary Sebelius, Change Management, Kevin Fickenscher, Emergency Room, Republicans and health reform, health outcomes, The Fickenscher Files, health care incentives, inefficient delivery of care, reduced costs, Bush administration, American Hospital Association, improve outcomes, Association of American Medical Colleges, audited on performance, abuse, presidential politics
A Layer Above it All: Healtheway’s Value Prop

Now that NwHIN has been spun-out into the public-private entity Healtheway one has to wonder exactly what value they can deliver to market that will sustain them as they attempt to ween themselves from the federal spigot. Healtheway has no lack of challenges...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2012 9:35 AM by Chilmark Research

Filed under: CMS, EHR, nhin, HIE, HHS, Security, Standards, Healtheway, NwHIN

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