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Patient-Driven Health IT

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
July 17, 2017 Leave a Comment

Mobile apps

I regularly read Dr. John Halamka’s Geekdoctor blog to keep up with the latest health IT (HIT) news. Dr. Halamka, Beth Israel Deaconess CIO, is an HIT policy expert, traveling around the U.S. and the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Health IT Tagged With: 21st Century Cures Act, API, application programming interface, CKD, Dr. John Halamka, Dugan Maddux, ESRD, Geekdoctor, Health IT, HIT, MACRA, MIPS, QPP, quality payment program

MACRA on the Menu

Dugan Maddux, MD, FACP, Vice President, Kidney Disease Initiatives
October 24, 2016 Leave a Comment

MACRA on the Menu

In last week’s Acumen blog Diana tackled highlights of the MACRA Final Rule released on October 14. She noted that the 2,398-page document is overwhelming and we are going to need to “eat the elephant … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, MACRA Tagged With: ACI, advancing care information, API, application programming interface, CMS, Diana Strubler, Dugan Maddux, Health IT, HIT, MACRA Final Rule, MARCA, Meaningful Use, Medicare Part B, MIPS, MIPS exclusions, MU, Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONCHIT), QPP, quality payment program, Vindell Washington

Web APIs: The Answer to Interoperability?

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
April 11, 2016 Leave a Comment

Unlocking information sharing

This week marks the last week of tax season! Luckily, for me, filing taxes has always been a pretty simple task. I gather all of my necessary paperwork and within a matter of hours I am able to file … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Future of EHRs Tagged With: API, APIs, application programming interfaces, CCD, Certified EHRs, CMS, common clinical data set, Diana Strubler, EHR, EHR vendors, FHIR, HL7, ONC, P4P, patient data

The Future of EHRs: Back to Basics?

Diana Strubler, Senior Manager, Policy and Analytics, Acumen Physician Solutions
June 1, 2015 Leave a Comment

Stacks of medical files

If I had a dime for every time I heard someone in the medical field complain about tedious data entry in their EHR, let’s just say I would have a lot of dimes. This complaint isn’t new, in fact over … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Electronic Health Records (EHRs), Future of EHRs Tagged With: AHIMA, API, CMS, Diana Strubler, EHR, HITECH, HITECH Act, JAMIA, ONC, Terry Ketchersid

The Learning Health System: More Than a Simple Stocking Stuffer

Terry Ketchersid, MD, MBA, Chief Medical Officer - Integrated Care Group
December 22, 2014 Leave a Comment

Three days! That’s right, for those of you who share my tendency to procrastinate around this time of year, there are three days of shopping left—a virtual lifetime for the latent holiday shopper. And … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Meaningful Use Tagged With: API, EHRs, HHS, JASON, Learning Health System

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