By HANS DUVEFELT Meaningful Use was a vision for EMRs that in many ways turned out to be a joke. Consider my list of Meaningful U’s for medical providers instead. When electronicContinue readin...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2020/08/27/meaningful-us/
By DAVID HARLOW The Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today entitled Putting patients into “meaningful use.” It begins with the anecdote I’ve blogged abo...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/12/09/putting-patients-into-meaningful-use/
By MARGALIT GUR-ARIE On June 8, the HIT Policy Committee at ONC has approved the Workgroup recommendations for Meaningful Use Stage 2. Before diving into the details, it is worth noting thatConti...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/12/01/horses-camels-signals/
By JOHN HALAMKA, MD As the year ends, I’ve spoken to many CIOs. 2011 was a hard year filled with Meaningful Use (including many upgrades to certified systems or self-certification), 5010Co...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/12/01/the-joy-of-success/
By Jonathan Bush I hope people are watching the news around the Meaningful Use attestation data released by CMS recently, because it is so instructive as to the difference between where weContinu...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/12/01/ehr-and-practical-tactical-outcomes/
By Margalit Gur-Arie While most folks are busy trying to keep up with Meaningful Use Stage 1, and Meaningful Use Stage 2 only recently emerged from the customary rulemaking process, those whoCont...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2018/10/01/meaningful-use-a-pinch-of-3-and-a-dash-of-4/
By HAYWARD ZWERLING, MD Over the last several months, I have worked to make the following the official policy of the Massachusetts Medical Society: That the MMS will advocate to our StateContinue...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/12/12/the-hit-emperor-has-never-had-any-clothes/
By RICHARD GUNDERMAN, MD A decade ago, electronic health records were aggressively promoted for a number of reasons. Proponents claimed that they would facilitate the sharing of health informat...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2016/04/05/meaningful-use-rip/
By MASS MED SOCIETY Massachusetts Medical Society President Dr. Dennis Dimitri sent the following comments on Meaningful Use Stage III and the Medicare Access and Child Health Reauthorization Act...
By FRED and ALMA TROTTER As President Obama’s healthcare reform unfolds in the last years of his administration, critics and supporters alike are looking for objective data. Meaningful Use is a...
https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2015/09/30/is-obamacare-working-show-us-the-data/