Category: EHR

whcchealthinnovations
iHealthBeat reports that West Virginia Medicaid along with five other states will receive federal matching funds from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)to help implement electronic health record (EHR) incentive programs.
West Virginia Medicaid will receive $945,000 in federal matching funds. The CMS press release indicates that West Virginia will use the […]

whcchealthinnovations
Last Friday the Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued a final rule providing the details on how organizations can be authorized by ONC to test and certify EHR technology. ONC discusses the details the Temporary Certification Program.
Certification is important because the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentives under HITECH require […]

jingemi
Yesterday West Virginia Senator Jay Rockefeller introduced “The Health Information Technology Public Utility Act of 2009″(Senate Bill 890) to facilitate the nationwide adoption of electronic health records (EHRs) though an “open source” public utility model.
A copy of Senate Bill 890 is not yet available on Thomas. I will check back later and update […]

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a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://symtym.com/images/phr/phr6.png”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 351px; height: 204px;” src=”http://symtym.com/images/phr/phr6.png” alt=”” border=”0″ //aTim Sturgill, MD JD at a href=”http://symtym.com/”symtym/a provides an explanation and insight into the potential shift from silo’ed EHRs controlled by multiple providers to a a href=”http://symtym.com/2008/11/health-cloud/”Health Cloud/a centralized around […]

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a onblur=”try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}” href=”http://purkinje.com/images/top_logo.gif”img style=”margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 207px; height: 76px;” src=”http://purkinje.com/images/top_logo.gif” alt=”” border=”0″ //aa href=”http://justendeal.com/”Justen Deal/a in his post, a href=”http://justendeal.com/blog/2008/11/11/purkinje-stealth-fighter/”Purkinje: stealth fighter/a, introduced me to another a href=”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_as_a_service”SasS/a focused Electronic Health Record (EHR) and practice management service provider called a href=”http://purkinje.com/ehr/home.cfm”Purkinje/a. Interesting […]

Malorye Allison
Jen McCabe Gorman at a href=”http://healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com/”Health Management RX/a brought span style=”text-decoration: underline;”/spana href=”http://healthmgmtrx.blogspot.com/2008/10/breaking-news-congress-wants-to-create.html”attention/a to a new a href=”http://www.house.gov/stark/news/110th/legislation/200809-HIT/billtext.pdf”House of Representative Bill (HR 6898)/a focused on electronic health information introduced in the 110th Congress by a href=”http://www.house.gov/stark/contact/biography.htm”Congressman Pete Stark/a. The bill was a href=”http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d110:18:./temp/%7EbdHfhQ:@@@Lamp;summ2=mamp;%7C/bss/d110query.html%7C”introduced/a on September 15, 2008, and is currently referred out […]

Fred Fortin
As a part of West Virginia’s participation in the Health Information Security and Privacy Collaborative (HISPC), West Virginia Medical Institute and its partners launch the eHealthWV website focused on educating consumers about electronic health records and health information exchange.
West Virginia was one of a number of states awarded a grant by RTI […]

Scott MacStravic
Recently I was interviewed for an article looking at the legal issues involved in the developing world of EHRs and PHRs written by Beth Walsh for ADVANCE Magazine. The article, Looking at Legality: Medical Records - New questions and concerns are popping up around the legalities of EHRs and PHRs, appears in […]

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The latest statistics are out regarding the adoption and use of electronic health records (EHRs). The New England Journal of Medicine published the government sponsored survey report. Check out the article in the NY Times, “Most Doctors Aren’t Using Electronic Health Records.” (full report - Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — […]

Scott MacStravic
On April 28, 2008, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology released its Report, “Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms,” to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
The report is an effort to get everyone working in health information technology to have a common understanding of and differences between […]