Tweet As they say, “the early bird gets the worm.” Healthcare providers who qualified for Stage 1 meaningful use this year got a bit of a reprieve on Stage 2 compliance when CMS announced late last month that they could take until 2014 to meet the requirements—a year later than previously planned. And those hospitals [...]
Tweet HealthTECH Live: HealthTECH Live is a news aggregator focused specifically on news relating to health reform and health technology. The site is regularly updated with news around the Web that is of interest to anyone in healthcare or anyone involved in marketing or PR for healthcare. The site is divided into a few basic [...]
Tweet Two years ago, many of us in healthcare IT were wowed by the creativity found in Ross Martin’s three part “interoperetta.” The video summed up the complexities of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act in just under four minutes through the lyrical mastermix. Check out our blog post “Singing [...]
Tweet Ted Wojno, MD is director of Oculoplastic and Orbital Surgery at the Emory Clinic. In the following entry, he weighs in on how healthcare reform is impacting the physician. 1. What impact have recent healthcare reform initiatives, such as the HITECH act, had on your organization? In keeping with the HITECH Act, Emory Healthcare (Atlanta, Ga.) has adopted [...]
Tweet Quality 101: Quality 101 is a new site developed by the HIMSS Patient Safety & Quality Outcomes Committee to help healthcare vendors and providers understand the details of quality measurement and improvement as it relates to EHRs and meaningful use incentives. The site is divided into several sections, such as The Basics, Key Industry [...]
Tweet As marketers, we try our best to stay ahead of the curve when it comes to social media, its tools and its practices, and we do our best to communicate the advantages of a strong online presence to our clients and our bosses. In healthcare, we often take for granted how the Web is [...]
Tweet As I near the end of my pregnancy, I’m holding down my daytime gig of being a PR/marketing professional in HIT, but I’m also moonlighting as a professional patient. And, at the same time this is happening, the rollout of the ARRA incentives for meaningful EHR use draws closer. We’ve seen the articles lamenting [...]
Tweet As the healthcare industry discussions continue surrounding the definition of meaningful use for electronic health records (EHRs), others have been seeking to define meaningful use as it relates to more appealing concepts. Photo credited to Neil Versel’s blog with the original source as Pat Wise of HIMSS.