This week, a House subcommittee held a hearing entitled “Is ‘Meaningful Use’ Delivering Meaningful Results?: An Examination of Health Information Technology...
Hospital Electronic Health Records
As readers know, we’ve been tracking the progress of Meaningful Use uptake, and data has repeatedly suggested that small and rural hospitals were lagging...
The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has announced plans to spend $100 million over five years to create a massive data warehouse, a move which puts it...
Well, it had to happen: The furor over the possible EMR-related Medicare overbilling has moved to its next stage. After enduring harangues by members of...
In the wake of an expose in The New York Times claiming that upcoding and overbilling was increasing with the use of EMRs, and members of Congress riding the...
Buying an EMR is one of biggest investments a hospital IT department is likely to make. To date, however, few hospitals are planning for and implementing EMR...
If you’re a history buff, you may know of the Golden Spike connecting the eastgoing and westgoing tracks of the First Transcontinental Railroad in 1869...
A couple of weeks ago, four House GOP leaders wrote a letter to HHS head Katherine Sebelius demanding that she account for perceived failures in the Meaningful...
Today, health IT writer Neil Versel tweeted an interesting observation: @ehrandhit I’m still waiting for a private payer to require the same...
Hospitals, you probably know that small practices are the last ones to adopt an EMR, and you may find it pretty frustrating. You may also be assuming that the...