BROWSE BY TAGS

• CMS
• government
• Health 2.0
• health care
• Health Information Management
• Health News
• HIM in the News
• HIPAA
• Management Issues
• Medicaid
• medical records
• medical records personal health information
• medical records privacy concerns release of information
• Medical Transcription
• patient care
• patient privacy
• personal health information
• privacy violations
• Social Networking
• Staffing Issues
• Upcoming Articles
• Web 2.0
• Web site

Comment on Meaningful Use
March 10, 2010 10:06 AM by Lisa Algeo

When the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) finally released the long-awaited proposed definition of meaningful use as it applies to electronic health records (EHRs), it opened up a 60-day public comment period. In the spirit of "full" disclosure, Read More...

0 comments »     

Politics and Paper
March 8, 2010 11:20 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

[Editor's note: This is a guest post from Scott Warner, MLT(ASCP), a laboratory manager and author of " Stepwise Success " on ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals .] At a recent user group meeting in Bar Harbor, Maine, a speaker said that getting Read More...

1 comments »     

HHS Names New Leaders, Still No CMS Head
February 19, 2010 10:51 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

What a week it's been for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Aside from celebrating the first anniversary of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), officials introduced several new comrades to the public. On Feb. 17, Joy Pritts Read More...

0 comments »     

HIT Work Group Presenter Wants Your Help
February 18, 2010 9:37 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

I first heard about Dave deBronkart, aka "e-patient Dave" about a year ago when I attended HealthCamp Philadelphia , and I've been following him ever since (literally-the man's all over Twitter). He's one of the most vocal proponents of getting patients Read More...

2 comments »     

Happy Birthday, HITECH!
February 17, 2010 9:26 AM by Cheryl McEvoy

Yes, readers of the HIM world, it was 1 year ago today that President Obama took that fateful pen to paper and signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), paving the way for electronic health records (EHRs) and all the perks and headaches Read More...

0 comments »     

Not Exactly a Ringing Endorsement for EHRs
May 7, 2009 12:31 PM by Lynn Jusinski

An emergency department (ED) in a facility in Western Sydney, Australia, banned the use of its EHR, going back to paper and pen, after struggling with downtime on the system. While a North South Wales (NSW) opposition health spokeswoman claimed that government Read More...

1 comments »