Meaningful Use
There are many eligible candidates who come to mind when thinking about who could fill the shoes of David Blumenthal, MD, national coordinator for health information technology. Experts cite meaningful use and electronic health record implementation experience as important criteria, but one consultant puts particular emphasis on finding a new leader who possesses a care team approach to health IT.
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has announced the conversion of 113 NQF-endorsed measures from a paper-based format to an electronic "eMeasure" format. The conversion, requested by the Department of Health and Human Services in compliance with the HITECH Act, will allow the measures to be more easily readable by EHR systems.
The Health Information Trust Alliance has designated PricewaterhouseCoopers US as a Common Security Framework Assessor, qualified to evaluate and certify security standards of CSF-related services.
Precyse Solutions, which specializes in health information management, and M*Modal, which develops speech understanding and natural language processing technologies, have teamed up to help the Geisinger Health System improve clinical documentation and coding accuracy.
Analysts offer their hints on the top trends and tricks for the coming year
The Kansas Academy of Family Physicians has launched the Kansas Patient Centered Medical Home Initiative, involving eight practices.
Meaningful use criteria gets the ball rolling.
Every year, the HIMSS annual conference has provided a milestone on our journey toward a future of HIT-assisted healthcare. Every year we’ve seen progress. Yet past years have been marked by the stubborn gap between the potential we perceive for HIT-assisted care and a sluggish rate of adoption among providers.
This February, I'll be attending my eighth HIMSS Annual Conference and Exhibition. Back in 2004, the industry was fairly new to me, although I had written about both healthcare and information technology for other publications. But it was a thrilling time to begin a new career, not least because, as one headline in the HIMSS Show Daily put it, "Suddenly, EHR is the talk of D.C."
David Blumenthal, MD, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, is stepping down from the helm at ONC this spring, the office confirmed Thursday.