On January 19, 2010, the Greater Louisville Health Enterprises Network together with Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society, Bluegrass Chapter, will present a panel presentation with discussions surrounding the next steps under the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health Act (HITECH), part of the ...
By 2014, hospitals and physicians whom Medicare reimburses for services and items will need to have adopted an electronic health record (EHR) according to rules promulgated under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) or risk reductions in their Medicare reimbursement. On December 30, 2009, the ...
The Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and its HIT Policy Committee worked hard throughout the summer to develop a framework for the "meaningful use" standards required to qualify for electronic health record (EHR) adoption stimulus funds available under the Health Information Technology for ...
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published a Notice in the Federal Register, December 1, 2009, Volume 229, No. 74, that it has reorganized the HHS Office of National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). The stated purpose of the reorganization was "to more effectively meet the mission outlined by The Health ...
On Monday, November 23, 2009, Dr. David Blumenthal, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under the Department of Health & Human Services, announced the launch of the Health IT Buzz blog. The blog is envisioned as a way to reach out to the healthcare IT community and public at large in order to create an open dialogue about ...
As first reported by the American Bar Association's Focus on E-Health and Privacy section, CMS announced on November 23, 2009, that Iowa's Medicaid program is the first state to receive federal matching funds for planning activities necessary to implement the electronic health records (EHR) incentive program established by the Health ...
I will be giving a presentation on "HITECH for Physicians" on Wednesday, October 14, 2009, from 7:30 am to 9:00 am. The presentation will take place at MedX12 offices, Ormsby III, 10200 Forest Green Blvd. (just off of North Hurstbourne Lane) in Louisville, Kentucky. The presentation will focus on those aspects of the HITECH Act that provide ...
On Friday, September 18, 2009, from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm, the HHS HIT Policy Committee discussed the standards under development for the 2013 and 2015 "meaningful use" criteria related to privacy and security. The Committee's webpage gave the following overview of the purpose of the meeting:
Protecting health data through comprehensive privacy ...
On Tuesday, September, 15, 2009, the HHS HIT Standards Committee gave an update on the quality measures that providers seeking to establish "meaningful use" of "certified EHR" must meet in order to qualify for stimulus funds available under ARRA's Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act. The meeting ran ...
In a letter to State Survey Agency Directors dated August 14, 2009, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) gave state surveyors guidance regarding surveys of facilities that use electronic health records (EHRs). CMS first stated its support and commitment to the goal that, by 2014, most Americans "will have access to health ...