Improvement of population and public health has been a stated goal of the HITECH Act and the CMS EHR Incentive Programs for Meaningful Use (MU) from the beginning. The Centers for Disease Control … [Read more...]
Flex Your Advocacy Muscles
Forty years ago, our government made a promise to Americans living with End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD). Congress assured dialysis patients that the cost of treatment would be covered by Medicare … [Read more...]
Beyond Meaningful Use: Is eRx Truly Meaningful?
Several Acumen blogs this year have been about eRx: PQRS and reporting in April, how to avoid the eRx penalty in June, and eRx and Meaningful Use Stage 2 in September. Ever in search of the meaning … [Read more...]
The Auld Mug of Identity Analytics
Did you hear about the “improbable comeback” of Oracle Team USA in the America’s Cup race this summer? The cup defender, Oracle, was racing against the challenger, Emirates Team New Zealand. This year … [Read more...]
Can You TXT4Health?
Have you recently enjoyed a quiet Saturday evening on your back porch gazing at the stars, pondering the universe in peaceful solitude? Have you taken a moment to stop thinking and working just to … [Read more...]
Lost and Found in Transformation
In 1996 my nephrology practice began to use the basic pieces of an EMR (yes, Electronic Medical Record, literally the digitalization of our paper medical record) that would later become the … [Read more...]
Where the Wild Things Are: The Internet of Things
Here I sit at the keyboard, typing information to be distributed on the Internet. But, hold onto your jump drive because we are headed Where the Wild Things Are….to the Internet of … [Read more...]
