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Update: VA Record Exchange Still Down
March 17, 2010 11:21 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Last week, I mentioned that the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) had tentatively shut down the Bidirectional Health Information Exchange (BHIE). Doctors identified bugs in the system, which enables the transmission of electronic health records (EHRs) Read More...
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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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Military Builds EHR for White House
March 9, 2010 8:12 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Jobs I'd never want: First Doc, aka the President's primary care physician. Think about how Ford's physician must have cringed whenever he took a spill on the stairs, or the constant concern of how all that stress could be affecting Clinton's thumper. Read More...
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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...
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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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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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Competition: A Barrier to HIE?
January 13, 2010 10:25 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Can't we all just get along? Apparently not in California, where a kerfuffle among two health information exchange (HIE) agencies may have prompted the state's first regional health information organization (RHIO) to bow out. It could be a sign of problems Read More...
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What's the Use?
January 7, 2010 12:01 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
If you've already pored through the NPRM on "meaningful use" and the IFR on electronic health record (EHR) implementation standards, then bravo. That's a whopping 692 pages in total--a major undertaking for anyone coming back from the holiday weekend. Read More...
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CMS, ONC Release Rules
December 30, 2009 5:28 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) have released long-awaited details regarding electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs. CMS released a proposed rule for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Read More...
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Follow the HIT Star
December 8, 2009 8:30 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
I have a tendency to get songs stuck in my head. (See what this ditty did to me.) The latest jingle: Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom." You'd think it's because I live right where the suburbs blend into Philly--I see the city's namesake every time I Read More...
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Giving Health Care a Workout
November 16, 2009 11:13 AM by Cheryl McEvoy
Ouch. That's about all I can say (and really, all I can think) after overexerting myself this weekend. A few of my friends have been doing P90 X, an extreme workout plan that includes several videos, each of which features a different routine, i.e. abs, Read More...
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Veterans Health Care
November 11, 2009 12:51 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
No matter your stance on war, it's only right to honor and thank veterans who put their lives on the line for our country. Military personnel witness firsthand what most of us find too hard to watch through a camera lens, and it's bound to have an impact. 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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“Cash for Clunkers” Hits Health Care
September 10, 2009 4:04 PM by Cheryl McEvoy
The government's "Cash for Clunkers" program was a clever idea--and a pretty successful one to boot. Dealerships swelled with drivers ready to trade in their rag-tag autos for a sleek new ride. Salespeople moved inventory, the environment got some smog Read More...
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