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Patient Portals: Enhancing Patient Communication?

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
November 30, 2015 1 Comment

You’re reading this blog post and we thank you for it, but what does that say about you? Data about use of online resources and tools in the U.S. is plentiful. A January 2014 Pew Research publication … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2, Patient Portal Tagged With: CJASN, CKD, CMS, Core Objective, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Stage 2, Patient Electronic Access Objective, Patient Portal, Pew Research, Secure Electronic Messaging

Meaningful Use in 2015: The 8 Things You Should Do Before the Year’s End

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
November 16, 2015 Leave a Comment

Time is running out clock

It’s been three months since my last blog post and a lot has changed! While I was off enjoying my newborn daughter, CMS released the much anticipated final rule for stage 2 modifications in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Tagged With: CMS, CPOE, CQM, Diana Strubler, HHS, HIE, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exemption, Meaningful Use Stage 2, NQS, OCR, OGC, stage 2 modifications, Terry Ketchersid

Meaningful Use Stage 2: The View from Outer Space

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
September 3, 2012 2 Comments

It has been over a week since the Stage 2 final rule was published and I know most of you have read the document cover to cover. For those of you who perhaps had better things to do (like taking care … [Read more...]

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Back to School Special: HHS Publishes the Stage 2 Final Rule & ICD-10 Transition

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
August 27, 2012 1 Comment

It’s that time of the year when kids of all ages are gearing up to return to school. As we were traveling through time-tested rituals at casa Ketchersid, I found myself wondering what to write about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Tagged With: ICD-10, Meaningful Use

To Infinity and Beyond…a Final Look at the Stage 2 NPRM

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
March 19, 2012 1 Comment

Over the past couple of weeks I have been discussing some of the insights gained from our first look at the proposed rule for the second stage of the meaningful use program. Of course this is not a … [Read more...]

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Stage 2: Clinical Quality Measures

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
March 12, 2012 2 Comments

Last week I reviewed some of the features contained within the NPRM for stage 2 of meaningful use. Today I’d like to walk through how HHS proposes to tweak the clinical quality measures (CQMs) in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Tagged With: Meaningful Use, Stage 2

Stage 2: Raising the Bar

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
March 5, 2012 3 Comments

Tomorrow, HHS will publish the notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 of the CMS EHR incentive program in the Federal Register. ONC provided us with an early look late last month. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use - Stage 2 Tagged With: Meaningful Use

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