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EMRAM Forecast Puts Hospitals Decades Away from Analytics Maturity

August 9, 2018 - Healthcare organizations may have decades to go before the majority of hospitals and health systems reach widespread data analytics maturity, according to a new study from the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Based on current trends, only about half of hospitals will reach Stage 7 on the HIMSS electronic medical record adoption model (EMRAM)...

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CMS Unveils Interoperability, EHR Clinical Documentation Changes

by Jennifer Bresnick

CMS has released proposed rules for Medicare that would make good on its promises to promote interoperability, reduce administrative burdens for physicians, and expand patient data access...

Verma: CMS Will “Use Every Lever” for Promoting Interoperability, Data Access

by Jennifer Bresnick

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is doubling down on its commitment to health data interoperability and ensuring that patients have comprehensive access to their own health data,...

CMS Renames Meaningful Use to Highlight Interoperability Goals

by Jennifer Bresnick

CMS has announced a rebrand of the familiar EHR Incentive Programs, commonly known as meaningful use, to reflect its ongoing commitment to interoperability, patient data access, and system-wide health...

CMS Public Health Data Repository Will Aid Quality Reporting

by Jennifer Bresnick

CMS is currently developing a centralized data repository for public health data and clinical data reporting, the agency announced, in an effort to streamline and synchronize the use of big data for...

Interoperability Focus is Critical as Meaningful Use Drags On

by Jennifer Bresnick

LAS VEGAS - Healthcare is an industry made for challenges. From solving the most complex clinical cases and providing immediate care for critical patients to changing lives and curing rare diseases by...

CMS Gets “Deadly Serious” About Interoperability as MU Fades

by Jennifer Bresnick

At the JP Morgan Annual Health Care Conference this week, Acting CMS Administrator Andy Slavitt offered the healthcare industry something very rare: a straightforward, plain-talking look into its...

Stakeholders Plead for Flexibility in Stage 3 Meaningful Use

by Jennifer Bresnick

CMS may be getting more flak than it bargained for when it opened up the final Stage 3 meaningful use regulations for public comment.  Dozens of irate physicians and a slew of professional...

Physicians, Lawmakers Rally to Retool Stage 3 Meaningful Use

by Jennifer Bresnick

The year may be winding down as the healthcare industry approaches the holidays, but providers, lawmakers, and advocacy groups are not easing up on the pressure to hit the brakes on Stage 3 meaningful...

3 Ways to Win the EHR, Health IT Argument on Thanksgiving

by Jennifer Bresnick

There are a few universal truths about the great American Thanksgiving holiday.  The turkey is never cooked just right, the TV is on too loud, there’s that one family member that will...

AMA Tackles EHR Usability, Physician Burnout, Meaningful Use

by Jennifer Bresnick

The American Medical Association has a lot on its plate as it enters 2016, a year in which the powerhouse organization hopes to solve pressing concerns over EHR usability, widespread physician burnout,...

Top Five Reasons Why Providers Hate the EHR Incentive Programs

by Jennifer Bresnick

“Hate” may seem like a strong word to use for describing a series of regulations intended to improve the quality and delivery of patient care, but it barely scratches the surface for many...

Stage 3 MU Steadily Loses Favor as EHR Usability Concerns Rise

by Jennifer Bresnick

Support for Stage 3 meaningful use is ebbing to an all-time low as medical societies and prominent stakeholders continue to push back against the program’s ambitious – and some say untenable...

CMS Seeks Comments on Merit-Based Incentive Payment System

by Jennifer Bresnick

Healthcare stakeholders who need a little more time to gather their thoughts about the Merit-Based Incentive Payment System (MIPS) may take advantage of an extended comment period, CMS said in a...

AAFP to ONC: Don’t Blame Docs for EHR Interoperability Woes

by Jennifer Bresnick

No matter how hard they try, family physicians simply can’t make EHR interoperability magically appear when working with substandard software, and shouldn’t be shouldering the blame for the...

Senate Seeks More Interoperability, Openness for Certified EHRs

by Jennifer Bresnick

With the infamous specter of information blocking now hanging over industry efforts to improve the interoperability of electronic health records, Senators Bill Cassidy (R-LA) and Sheldon Whitehouse...

CMS Cuts Stage 2 MU Patient Engagement Threshold to One User

by Jennifer Bresnick

The dreaded five percent patient engagement requirement for Stage 2 meaningful use is no more, now that CMS has released its final flexibility rule covering changes to the EHR Incentive Programs between...

HHS Releases 2015 CEHRT, Meaningful Use Flexibility Rules

by Jennifer Bresnick

While it isn’t the Stage 3 meaningful use delay that many stakeholders are anxious to see, HHS has finally allowed the healthcare industry to view and comment on the flexibility provisions for the...

Don’t Publish Stage 3 Meaningful Use Rule, Urge AMA and Others

by Jennifer Bresnick

The American Medical Association and forty other professional societies are strongly urging HHS and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) not to publish the finalized rule for Stage 3 Meaningful...

Final Rule for Stage 3 Meaningful Use Comes Closer to Publication

by Jennifer Bresnick

The final rule for Stage 3 Meaningful Use is now under review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), bringing the hotly anticipated guidelines one step closer to publication and the opportunity...

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