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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...
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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...
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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...
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EHRs Featured in Olympics Ad
February 16, 2010 10:44 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I tend to watch the Super Bowl for the ads, so it's no surprise that while tuning in to the 2010 Olympics this weekend, a clever commercial caught my eye. GE Healthcare ran this ad about electronic health records (EHRs), showing how the technology connects Read More...
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Medical Records: Help or Hindrance in Haiti?
January 19, 2010 9:40 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Hundreds of thousands are injured, communications are scant and trauma centers are makeshift, at best. So how are medical records maintained? They're not, according to reports surfacing from Haiti. Eyewitness accounts tell of overrun hospitals resorting Read More...
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HIT Advances Make the Top 10: Really?
December 18, 2009 2:10 PM by Lisa Algeo
The top 10 medical advances of this decade have been released, and harnessing information technology shows up at No. 2. Really? I find this a bit surprising. I'm not sure the advances in health information technology (HIT) deserve this accolade yet. A Read More...
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H1N1: After the Vaccine
October 22, 2009 10:13 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Everyone's sick of swine flu (pun not intended, I swear), so apologies in advance for striking up yet another conversation about it, but I couldn't help posting when I heard about post-vaccine monitoring . What? What's that you say? Monitoring? As in Read More...
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Retail Clinic Check-up
June 25, 2009 3:30 PM by Lynn Jusinski
I'm what you might call "doctor phobic." I haven't had a check up since 2001, and that was required to get into college. After high school, I moved to the Philadelphia suburbs from quiet nook upstate in a rural area lovingly referred to as the "Polish Read More...
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HITECH Alters HIPAA
February 26, 2009 3:29 PM by Lynn Jusinski
By now, most of us have heard a few of the details in the economic stimulus package signed by the president Feb. 17. You'll have $13 extra stuffed in your paychecks each week starting April Fool's Day, and money will go toward green initiatives. Did you Read More...
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ICD-10 Final Rule Issued; Implementation Slated for 2013
January 15, 2009 12:22 PM by Lynn Jusinski
The eagerly awaited Final Rules for adoption of ICD-10 will be published in the next few days, and the implementation date has been bumped from 2011 to 2013. The American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA) released a brief statement today Read More...
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