The CMS e-prescribing program has been in place for almost 2 years. During that time the national utilization of e-Rx technology has increased dramatically. Surescripts tracks these figures and last … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 8, 2010
EMR: One Size Does Not Fit All It is impossible to satisfy both hospitals and community ambulatory physicians with the same EMR product. The right solution depends on what product best suits the … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use: The Privacy and Security Objective
There are several meaningful use objectives within the CMS EHR incentive program that may not be crystal clear. One of the foggiest, from my vantage point, is what I call the Privacy and Security … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 1, 2010
Kaiser Plans to Donate Terminology System With Kaiser Permanente’s donation of its Convergent Medical Terminology (CMT) to the International Healthcare Terminology Standards Development Organisation … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use Objectives for 2011 & 2012
Successfully demonstrating meaningful use and qualifying for the EHR incentive program requires the physician to report a number of meaningful use objectives to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use and Nephrology
One of the most important topics at the intersection of nephrology and health IT is the CMS EHR incentive program. Starting next year nephrologists have the opportunity to earn $44,000 over the … [Read more...]
Timely IT Information for Nephrologists
Welcome to the HITSG Acumen blog. We intend for this blog to be a conduit for information of interest to you, the practicing nephrologist, as you intersect with health information technology. I … [Read more...]
