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 ICD-10, Meaningful Use, ACOs…what other buzz words can we throw in that are top of mind for each and every healthcare executive? Certainly, plenty others make the list right now, and while the benefits to these major initiatives vary, one commonality is spurring them all—patient care. It makes sense, right? We should always push [...]
Tweet Alan Zloto, D.O. is the owner of a private internal medicine practice in Tampa, FL. In the following entry, he weighs in on how healthcare reform is impacting physician practices. What impact have recent healthcare reform initiatives, such as the HITECH Act, had on your organization? We’ve had to convert all files to paperless [...]
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 I had the opportunity to get an invitation to last week’s 2011 Healthcare Summit at Jackson Hole. This is the first year of an invitation-only event, light on content and heavy on relationship development. I caught up with the event’s organizer, Dave Bjork, president of Telcare, on his concept behind the event. Dodge: What’s the [...]
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 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.