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Should hospitals risk going broke for Meaningful Use?
Should officials at cash-strapped hospitals go all-in on electronic health record systems in hopes of receiving a big return via incentive dollars, even if it means spending beyond their means?
Berwick: Meaningful Use still in its adolescence
The use of analytics in healthcare has potential, former Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Donald Berwick, M.D. told HealthLeaders Media in a recent interview. According to Berwick, CMS trials with analytics adoption at Oak Ridge (Tenn.) National Laboratory showed success with regard to the use of predictive analytics for fraud prevention.
AHA: Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements 'not feasible' for most hospitals
The American Hospital Association (AHA) and the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), two of the biggest guns in the health IT industry, have formally expressed significant
Many hospital CIOs skeptical of HIE efforts
While a majority of hospital CIOs responding to a recent survey conducted by healthsystemCIO.com say they are participating in regional health or system-to-system information exchange efforts, not
Physicians eager but unprepared to meet Meaningful Use requirements
Although roughly half of physicians in a recent survey said they planned to apply to the Meaningful Use incentive program in 2011, few would have qualified for payments because their electronic
Smaller hospitals, solo docs struggling with EHR adoption
While active registrants and payments distributed by the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive programs continue to rise overall , there remain several areas where adoption of EHRs
Fierce Q&A: Lots of barriers to MU patient engagement rules
As comments on the proposed requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 2 pour in, debate around the patient engagement requirement is heating up. For example, in a recent column posted to The Health Care
To improve outcomes, choose IT projects wisely
For hospital providers and executives, the ability to align various technology initiatives in order to reach multiple goals can help solidify a facility's reputation as an IT leader. Officials from
AMA seeks relief from 'onslaught' of CMS regulations
A host of healthcare associations and organizations are urging the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to address an "onslaught of overlapping regulations that affect physicians," including
ICD-10: Why the delay is necessary
The conversion to ICD-10 is "expensive, arduous, disruptive and of limited direct clinical benefit," according to the authors of an article published this week in the journal Health Affairs. They
