For the past 20 years or so our family has made an annual pilgrimage to the beach. As our children have grown older, our activities have evolved through the years. As I write this, it is raining at … [Read more...]
EHRs and Nephrology: What’s Your Favorite Flavor?
When I was much younger, one of my favorite treats was a family trip to the local ice cream parlor. There was a Baskin-Robbins in the neighborhood and I still remember the excitement and amazement … [Read more...]
Patient Access to Lab Results
Increasingly we are seeing models or frameworks that are changing the healthcare equation to put the patient at the center. ACOs and the Patient-Centered Medical Home are recent examples of this … [Read more...]
Charting a Course for EHR Implementation
In this post, guest blogger Beth Shaw shares tips on how to successfully implement an EHR and attest all practice physicians to meaningful use. Beth is Administrator at Illinois Kidney Disease and … [Read more...]
On Call: Finding Meaning in the Cloud
In this post, guest blogger Dr. Jason Shey shares his experience as an on-call physician using an EHR in the cloud. Dr. Shey is a nephrologist/internist at Diablo Nephrology Medical Group in Concord, … [Read more...]
Dialysis Encounters and Meaningful Use Revisited
Last fall in this blog I reviewed what, at that point, was understood about the intersection of the dialysis patient encounter and meaningful use. Since that time CMS has clarified their position both … [Read more...]
HIPAA and the HITECH Act
Lost in the excitement surrounding meaningful use is a HITECH requirement to expand the HIPAA Privacy Rule. Over the past several years HIPAA has risen to the top of many providers “least favorite … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: July 1, 2011
Stage 2 Meaningful Use to Show 'Deference' to Panel Proposals The rule that details the requirements for stage 2 of meaningful use will “look a lot like” the measures that the Health IT Policy … [Read more...]
