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Promoting Interoperability: What’s in a Name?

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
April 30, 2018 Leave a Comment

Hello, my name is ...

Time truly flies when you are having fun. Can you believe tomorrow is May 1? I am amazed how quickly this year is passing by. In an otherwise quiet week at the intersection of nephrology and health … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use, Promoting Interoperability

The HITECH Act: Then, and Now

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
September 18, 2017 Leave a Comment

A stroll down memory lane

Can you believe it? Fall officially begins this Friday! The football season is underway, the leaves will soon change colors, and before you know it, the College Hoops season will begin! It is hard to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT, Meaningful Use Tagged With: ARRA, CEHRT, EHRs, Health IT, HITECH, John Halamka, Meaningful Use, Micky Tripathi, MU, National Coordinators, NEJM, ONC, Terry Ketchersid

Meaningful Use: Still Kicking in 2016!

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
October 3, 2016 2 Comments

EP objectives

Can you believe that we only have a few months left of using the term “Meaningful Use” before it’s retired? There’s a small (and I mean small) part of me that will mourn the loss of the term—mainly … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Tagged With: ACI category, advancing care information, alternate exclusions, CMS, Diana Strubler, hardship exemptions, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MU, OPPS final rule, performance score, threshold-based measures

March Madness & Meaningful Use: Strange Bedfellows?

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
March 28, 2016 Leave a Comment

March is well underway and workforce productivity is in the midst of a recurring springtime slump as that annual institution known as the NCAA basketball tournament is in full swing. If you were among … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meaningful Use Tagged With: American Hospital Association, CMS, Daniel Pink, dialysis facilities, EHR, ESRD, Health Affairs, Health IT, long-term care hospitals, LTACs, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MU, MU hardship, psychiatric hospitals, rhabilitation hospitals, Terry Ketchersid

Connecting Health and Care through HIT: From Meaningful Use to Interoperability

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
March 14, 2016 Leave a Comment

“Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” —John F. Kennedy Do you like change? If you are a physician or work in a medical … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Tagged With: Acumen Blog, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, HHS, HIT, HITECH, Interoperability, MACRA, Meaningful Use, MIPS, MU, ONCHIT, Stage 2, Stage 3, Terry Ketchersid

Meaningful Use: Public Health Objectives Demystified

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
February 29, 2016 3 Comments

Happy Leap Day! Did you know that leap day occurs in most years that are divisible by 4 (such as 2008, 2012, 2016, etc.), but years that are divisible by 100 (but not by 400) do not contain a leap day … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Tagged With: Certified EHRs, CMS, EPs, Immunization Measure, Meaningful Use, PHAs, public health agencies, public health objective, Stage 2

Good News: The 2015 Hardship Exception Arrives!

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
January 25, 2016 3 Comments

Good News!

Last week, the moment we’ve all been waiting for arrived. Not the first snowfall of the year many of us experienced thanks to a winter storm named Jonas. No, I am talking about the latest rendition of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Meaningful Use Tagged With: 50% Rule, 90-day reporting period, CEHRT, Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR, EHR vendors, Hardship Exception Application, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Hardship Exception, MU, Patient Access and Medicare Protection Act, Terry Ketchersid

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