While everyone was busy filling out their NCAA brackets (sorry, Michigan State fans), the government was quickly passing a bipartisan bill that will supposedly reshape the Meaningful Use program as it … [Read more...]
A Roadmap to Health IT Safety
Is it time for your summer vacation? Will you pull out your map and plot a course or is that too old fashioned? Maybe your road trips are as high tech as the rest of your life and you’ll navigate with … [Read more...]
The Future of EHRs: Back to Basics?
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...]
Regulation vs Innovation: The Battles of a Certified EHR in a Meaningful Use World
In the past five years, EHR technology vendors and providers have been struggling with the numerous regulatory requirements, from PQRS and eRx programs to Meaningful Use, value-based modifiers, ICD-10 … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use: Letting the Air Out
With all of the buzz around “deflate-gate” lately, I naturally associated it with the Meaningful Use program. Didn’t you? For those that aren’t sports fans (or don’t turn on the TV, open a … [Read more...]
Giving the Immunization Measure a Shot
Last week Dr. Dugan Maddux had us all singing the 12 Days of Christmas with a Health IT twist. The holidays can also have many of us singing the blues, as the season coincides with the middle of the … [Read more...]
