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Federal Health Information Technology Strategic Plan
Author: U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: September 12, 2011
Future of a Nationwide Health Information Network: An Explanation of the Minnesota NwHIN Direct Pilot and Implications For Improved Healthcare Delivery
Author: Briggs, Mark
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
An initiative developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology of the Department of Health and Human Services, the Direct Project was designed to help healthcare providers, departments of health, and payers nationwide communicate sec....
Colorado Regional Extension Center: Successful Strategies for Provider Engagement
Author: Leone, Robyn
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
Background
In April 2009, under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), provisions were included in the “stimulus bill” to fund health information technology grants across the country. These provisions were written under the Health Information Technology for Economi....
Telling the HIM Story in Meaningful Use
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
The term "meaningful use" is used freely within Washington and throughout the healthcare industry. For HIM professionals it is not a new concept, but the term has proliferated in the last few years with the creation of the ARRA-funded EHR incentive program.
At some point the talk wi....
Little Breaches: OCR Releases First “Small Breach” Data
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
The Office for Civil Rights has been publicly reporting incidents of large-scale health data breaches since early 2010, but last month it reported to Congress numbers that the industry has only guessed at to date-the reports it has received of breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals.
Sanction Guidelines for Privacy and Security Violations (2011 update)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA practice brief | Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
This practice brief has been updated. See the latest version here. This version is made available for historical purposes only.
Advancing HIE: ONC Works to Harmonize Standards and Elements to Foster Health Data Exchange
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
As the meaningful use program marches forward, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) continues to sharpen its focus on health information exchange (HIE). One of the main components in the HITECH Act mandated "the use of certified EHR technology for electronic exchange of h....
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....
Understanding Patient Access and Amendments
Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann
Source: AHIMA Convention
Publication Date: October 02, 2011
The Health Information Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA, 45 CFR, section 164.524 and 164.526) and subsequent privacy rule revisions under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act changed how covered entities approach a patient’s right to ac....
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....
HHS Steps up HIPAA Audits: Now Is the Time to Review Security Policies and Procedures
Author: Greene, Adam H
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
Now Is the Time to Review Security Policies and Procedures
In June 2011 the Department of Health and Human Services awarded KPMG a $9.2-million contract to create an audit protocol and audit organizational compliance with the HIPAA privacy and security requirements.1 The co....
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.
A f....
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....
Keeping Compliant: Managing Rising Risk in Physician Practices
Author: Brocato, Lori; Emery, Steven; McDavid, Jan P
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
A mix of new regulations and initiatives-with audits and attestations in their wake-have put a new focus on compliance in physician practices and clinics.
Recovery audits, breach notification regulations, and modifications to the HIPAA privacy rule are forcing rapid workflo....
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....
Field Guide: Seeing the Trees through the Forest in 2012
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
A forest of issues crowds the 2012 HIM landscape. AHIMA practice experts offer a guide for the year ahead.
The seedlings of change planted in 2009 by the announcement of the ICD-10 transition and the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act have sprouted into a towering forest of....
Update on the Adoption of Health Information Technology and Related Efforts to Facilitate the Electronic Use and Exchange of Health Information
Author: U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: January 17, 2012
Metadata and Meaningful Use
Author: Viola, Allison F.; Mookencherry, Shefali
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2012
The healthcare industry will find out soon if ONC intends to include metadata requirements in stage 2 of the meaningful use program. Many feel it is too soon. But given metadata's potential to support health information exchange, the expanded and standardized use of metadata tagging....
The 63rd REC: http://healthit.gov
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: February 2012
In a January 6 blog post, Farzad Mostashari, MD, national coordinator for health IT, summarized a busy year at his office, highlighting 10 of 2011's "most notable developments in the world of health information technology and ONC."
Among these were 62 regional health IT extension ce....
Keeping It Private: Staying Compliant with the HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules
Author: Tomes, Jonathan P.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
HHS's renewed interest in auditing for compliance is a good reminder to covered entities to ensure their privacy and security programs are up to date.
The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) announcement of a new program to audit compliance with the HIPAA priva....
Automation for Privacy and Security Compliance
Author: McLendon, Kelly
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: March 2012
There has been a lack of enforcement of the privacy and security rules ever since HIPAA's inception. As such the adoption of comprehensive HIPAA compliance programs has lagged behind EHR development and implementation.
This in turn has caused little funding to be budgeted by provide....
Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Program—Stage 2 [proposed rule]
Author: U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: March 07, 2012
Health Information Technology: Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology, 2014 Edition; Revisions to the Permanent Certification Program for Health Information Technology [proposed rule]
Author: U.S. Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | Federal Register
Publication Date: March 07, 2012
What’s New in 2: Top Changes in the Stage 2 Rule
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2012
There are few surprises in CMS's proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use program. The provisions generally reflect the recommendations of the Health IT Policy Committee made last year, and in the case of the intended change to the timeline, an announcement was made last December.
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The New Privacy Officer
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2012
It has been a decade since the first privacy officers took their jobs in response to the HIPAA privacy rule. A slew of changes since then have added more responsibility, required more skills, and demanded more time of them than anyone could have imagined.
When Nancy Davis, R....
Untangling HIE: Patchwork Regulations, Standards Complicate Health Information Exchange
Author: Warner, Diana
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
The Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program has dramatically increased the number of health information exchanges (HIEs) throughout the United States. An HIE is the exchange of health information electronically between providers and others with the same level of interoperability accor....
EHR 2014: Highlights of the Proposed Stage 2 Certification Rule
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
In March, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published a proposed rule on EHR certification, a companion to the proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use EHR incentive program that was published on the same day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Open for Business: Private Networks Create a Marketplace for Health Information Exchange
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
Large health systems and their IT vendors are creating private information exchange networks at a time when federally funded state operations are gearing up for launch. Is there room for private and public offerings in the new HIE marketplace?
Many state level health information....
AHIMA Comments on ONC Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology, 2014 Edition Proposed Rule
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: May 07, 2012
AHIMA Comments on CMS Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs Stage 2 Proposed Rule (NPRM)
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA testimony and comments
Publication Date: May 07, 2012
Achieving Meaningful Use of Health Information Technology: A Guide for Physicians to the EHR Incentive Programs
Author: Marcotte, Leah; Seidman, Joshua J; Trudel, Karen; Berwick, Donald M ; Blumenthal, David; Mostashari, Farzad; Jain, Sachin H
Source: External web site
Publication Date: May 14, 2012
An overview of the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and guide for physicians in the process of how to demonstrate meaningful use of health information technology. (Arch Intern Med. 2012;172(9):731-736.)
Information Exchange Receives a Big Push in Meaningful Use, Stage 2: New Requirements Encourage Further Integration With EHRs
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2012
As outlined within the HITECH Act of 2009, in order for providers to become meaningful users of electronic health records (EHRs), their use must, "in accordance with law and standards applicable to the exchange of information… improve the quality of health care, such as promoting care coordina....
AHIMA Comments on Certification Proposed Rule
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2012
Electronic health records could soon become more patient-centered, more secure, and more frequently used for treatment improvement-if provisions outlined in the EHR certification proposed rule are widely implemented.
Under the 2009 ARRA economic stimulus package, healthcare providers....
Details of Stage 2 Meaningful Use
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2012
The release of STAGE 2 of the meaningful use program introduced adjustments that increased the challenges providers must overcome to meet the program requirements laid out by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Stage 2 maintains the same core-menu structure and slightly incre....
AHIMA Comments on Stage 2 Meaningful Use Measures
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2012
Increased quality measurement, better patient access to health information, and greater volume of information exchange is in store for providers and hospitals participating in the federal stage 2 meaningful use incentive program.
On March 7 the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Servi....
Treating Healthcare with Health "I"T
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
Patient-Centric Stage 2 Meaningful Use Measures Considered Treatment for Ailing US Health System
The US healthcare system is ill. Higher costs, sicker patients, and struggling providers are the symptoms of the disease that has sent industry stakeholders scrambling t....
Structuring the Spoken Word: The Role of Transcription in Meaningful Use
Author: Carnrite, Michael; Sumner, Susan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2012
The latest data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services report that Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments for the meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) have reached more than $5 billion. Medical transcription has played a role in providers’ attainment of these incen....
SNOMED CT Integral Part of Quality EHR Documentation
Author: Kostick, Karen M.
Source: Journal of AHIMA - Coding Notes
Publication Date: October 2012
The use of many distinct standardized clinical vocabulary terminologies and classifications is integral to the development of a nationwide health IT infrastructure that allows for electronic use and exchange of health information. SNOMED CT is one of the key clinical terminologies designated f....
EHR Evolution: Policy and Legislation Forces Changing the EHR
Author: Tripathi, Micky
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
Electronic health records (EHRs), like all computerized technologies, have undergone rapid transformation over the past 50 years. The pace of change has greatly accelerated since the January 2009 passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH)-a $30....
Meaningful Use Stage 2 Ramps Up Record Access
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) have certainly put a new spin to the old saying “things happen in threes.” During late August, CMS issued the final rule for the stage 2 “meaningful use” Elec....
Health Story Data Standards Included in Meaningful Use Program
Author: Kuhl, Joy
Source: Journal of AHIMA - website
Publication Date: November 2012
Just because information can be exchanged electronically doesn’t mean it can be digitally analyzed. Data needs to be structured using clear electronic standards for HIM professionals and other health IT specialists to analyze and use the data. Much of the data generated in healthcare-like pro....
Analyzing Stage 1 and Stage 2 Meaningful Use Differences
Author: Viola, Allison F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
The summer of 2012 ended with a bang when the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) issued final regulations outlining requirements for the stage 2 “meaningful use” EHR Incentive Program. The stage 2 final regulation did....
Rapid Release of Rules Means Work Ahead
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2012
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), along with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), formally released three final rules around the the time of the Labor Day holiday. Appropriately enough, the arrival of these final rules spells out much work ahead for t....
Early Assessment Finds That CMS Faces Obstacles In Overseeing The Medicare EHR Incentive Program
Author: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of the Inspector General
Source: Government (U.S.)
Publication Date: November 29, 2012
Problem Lists in Health Records: Ownership, Standardization, and Accountability
Author: AHIMA HIE Practice Council
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: December 09, 2012
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