Posts Tagged ‘Meaningful Use’

The healthcare IT field is rapidly developing and changing. Emerging technology and updated regulations put pressure on healthcare providers and health plans to stay ahead of the curve. Perficient creates a monthly list that explores some of the current topics and issues in health IT. This list examines the most talked about issues and technologies […]

In their WSJ article, Stephen Soumerai and Ross Koppel point out that physicians and hospitals have spent billions of dollars on costly healthcare information technologies and have not realized benefits of these expenses. While everything they are saying is mostly accurate, I believe they are missing the bigger picture. Meaningful Use stage one is not […]

A recent article addressed some of the top challenges facing CIOs in the healthcare industry. Many of these challenges are created by the need to keep up with constantly changing regulations as well as addressing HIPAA security concerns. Here are a few of the top concerns of healthcare CIOs, and how health information technology can […]

Many of you are counting on your EMR vendors to qualify your organization for Meaningful Use. This is a risky strategy. Dr. Rowley has done some analysis and shown that with two exceptions, all attestations count for less than 10% market share from the EMR vendors. This means you are most likely waiting for the […]

If you are still thinking about your strategy for Meaningful Use, I want you to stop right now and write me a check for $5,000 for every physician in your practice. I promise I’ll put the money to good use. This is conceptually what happens if you don’t act immediately. You have just given away […]

Meaningful Use Stage 1 encouraged physicians to implement an EHR in order to capture discrete and some unstructured healthcare data with the future goal of sharing this across the industry. Stage 2 reimbursement (preliminary) will be based on the patient taking an active role in the sharing of this data. This is contrary to the […]

Health care organizations which do not qualify for incentive reimbursement have in large part not implemented EHRs, leading researchers involved in a study published in the March issue of Health Affairs to conclude that it is the incentives rather than factors such as improving patient care which are driving EHR adoption. Under the 2009 federal […]

Providers are increasing their reliance on cloud technology to better address organizational hiccups and bottlenecks. Why? Because cloud technology allows resources to be accessed on demand, which results in a more effective and efficient work force, stronger operations and better customer care. It is a low-cost option that blows the competition out of the water. […]

Cindy O’Neill from Microsoft interviewed Perficient’s Martin Sizemore at HIMSS 2012 on accountable care, meaningful use, mobility, social media, cloud, portals and business intelligence solutions.

Several of the organizations that represent some of the many stakeholders in the healthcare delivery system have turned up the volume against ICD-10, yet again. Some of the arguments against it are that there’s too much of a burden due to compliance work already being done on other directives and some have also exclaimed that […]

The Stage 2 Meaningful Use objectives defined in the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act may be the best first step toward more robust healthcare provider analytics and reporting. However, the beauty of these tools is not limited to meeting regulatory mandates alone. These data analysis and reporting requirements can usher […]

The newest announcement regarding Meaningful Stage II requirements was made on February 22, 2012, and met an equal balance of fanfare and disappointment from the healthcare sector. Apparently, a fair number of players were hoping that Stage II of Meaningful Use would raise the bar to better tie HIT adoptions, such as EHRs, to improvements […]