Meaningful Use news and information

Despite concerns that some providers are lagging in the adoption of EHRs, federal officials plan to stay on schedule in requiring hospitals to meet Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements.
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Salt Lake City-based healthcare data warehousing and analytics company Health Catalyst has named Scott Holbrook strategic adviser.
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Healthcare providers have long decried the cacophony of reporting requirements under various CMS programs and have asked for harmonization of the rules. Now, the 652-page proposed rule encompassing changes to the Medicare Physician Payment Schedule, released Monday, may have providers who report...
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Watch out for a French person talking about revolution.“The patient is the revolutionary in healthcare these days,” said Dr. Bettina Experton, a French-born oncologist turned U.S. citizen and health IT entrepreneur. “That is why I think Blue Button is revolutionary.”
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance is seeking public comment on proposed revisions to its patient-centered medical home recognition program standards, which it says will better reflect healthcare trends such as the growing emphasis on outcome measures.
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The changes driven by the reform law make it crucial that providers stay on top of a growing list of compliance issues.
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Partners HealthCare System has joined with the investment arms of Kaiser Permanente and Indiana University in an $8 million equity placement in a Utah data warehousing and analytics firm, Health Catalyst, reflecting what some predict will be the next big category in health information technology...
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Pete Palmer is the new chief security officer of MedAllies, a Fishkill, N.Y.-based company that helps healthcare providers with the implementation of electronic health records, the application of meaningful-use criteria and workflow redesign.
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Epic Systems Corp. sits atop a heap of more than 400 developers of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory-care physicians and other eligible professionals who have received federal EHR incentive payments, federal data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. and Meditech have the most customers receiving federal electronic health-record system incentive payments in the two key categories for hospital systems, federal data show.
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