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Achieving Meaningful Use Quality Measure Reporting: Academic Medical Centers Experiences
Author: Levine, David L
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) authorized incentive payments in 2009 through Medicare and Medicaid to clinicians and hospitals when they use Electronic Health Records privately and securely to achieve specified improvements in ca....
EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals or EACH™, A Federally-authorized Certification for Installed Hospital EHR Technology
Author: Knighton, Michelle; Ray, Alisa
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Introduction
As hospitals anticipate the benefits of federal incentive payments for meaningful use of certified EHR technology, some face an unexpected hurdle. Many hospitals will be able to meet the EHR certification requirement through use of certified EHR technology purchased from vend....
Getting to the Data for Direct Quality Reporting
Author: Palkie, Brooke; Sandefer, Ryan; Low, Trina
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
INTRODUCTION
The College of St. Scholastica’s (CSS) Center for Healthcare Innovation, School of Nursing and the School of Health Science’s Department of Health Informatics and Information Management are collaborating with five rural Minnesota hospitals and their shared informa....
1,000 Choices: No Shortage of Products Certified for Meaningful Use
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
Eligible professionals and hospitals participating in the federal meaningful use incentive program must use EHR products that have been certified for use in the program. A key piece to launching the meaningful use program has been designing and creating the certification process.
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Regional Extension Centers and Health Information Management
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
In today’s complex healthcare environment the challenge for many providers is the rapid deployment and implementation of electronic health records (EHR). The ongoing national initiative to provide Americans with an EHR, and federal programs designed to assist providers in EHR adoption ha....
Meaningful Use: Notes from the Journey
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
After debate, speculation, and anxiety throughout the industry, the first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use program. So far… so good.
The first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use journey; it has been nin....
Meaningful Use and HIPAA Privacy and Security – Meeting the Requirements
Author: Sheldon-Dean, Jim
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
In order to receive funding for the adoption of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) under the HITECH Act1, entities, among other requirements, must attest that they meet all required objectives published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the repo....
Fall Preview: A Look at the Season’s Expected Rules
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
Perhaps one of the biggest jobs related to implementing the ARRA provisions right now is keeping track of the moving parts. Publication of the act in 2009 was a kind of Big Bang-an explosion of provisions that rocked the healthcare universe. Since then, however, the pieces have traveled at dif....
RECs on a Mission: Assessing the Regional Extension Center Program
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
A year after opening their doors, the federally sponsored health IT regional extension centers have nearly met their recruitment goals. Now the hard part starts…
The Regional Extension Centers (RECs) faced a near impossible mission.
Develop from scratch 62 RECs nation....
Breathing Room: Early Adopters Have More Time for Stage 2
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
Last summer the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT heard repeatedly from providers and vendors that they would not have time to prepare for stage 2 of the meaningful use program. With a final rule on stage 2 not expected until summer 2012, vendors and hospitals did not see how th....
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