CCHIT Releases Details on New EHR Certification Programs

On Tuesday, the Certification Commission for Health IT announced that it will launch two new certification programs on Oct. 7. Read full article...

'Meaningful Use' Definition Will Be Ready in Spring 2010

On Thursday, National Coordinator for Health IT David Blumenthal predicted that the final definition for "meaningful use" of electronic health records will not be ready until mid- or late spring 2010. Read full article...

Are the stars aligning for telemedicine's succcess?

The current health care crisis has some experts saying that telemedicine's time has finally come.
While technology companies have been touting the use of virtual technology to allow doctors to remotely examine and monitor patients for decades, up until recently the business case for deploying these expensive systems was hard to justify. Read full article...

Panel Offers Initial Criteria for Defining 'Meaningful Use'

Today, a Health IT Policy Committee work group released its initial recommendations for defining "meaningful use" of electronic health records. The federal economic stimulus law requires hospitals and physicians to demonstrate meaningful use of EHRs to qualify for Medicare and Medicaid incentive payments. Read full article...

Using the Recession as an Opportunity

A primary theme of the high-energy general session on Day Two of the Nielsen Consumer360 conference was encouraging attendees to use the current recession as a learning opportunity, in order to build better relationships with consumers and/or reinvent business models. Read full aricle...

The 80-20 Rule of Healthcare

Seeking to understand what patients are using emergency departments most frequently and find solutions, the nonprofit group Integrated Care Collaboration discovered that 9 Austin-area patients accounted for almost 2,700 ED visits over 6 years - an average of one visit per week. Read full article...

A Visit With EMR From the Patient's Perspective

In the EMR business, we often talk about the EMR experience for clinicians, but not as often about the experience for patients. This article from the Huffington Post blog gives us perspective on the positives and negatives (mostly positives) of EMR from the patient's point of view. Read full article...