What if your hospital couldn’t reliably perform any of the top three Hospital National Patient Safety Goals, as specified by the Joint Commission, above –...
Eyes Wide Shut
Eyes Wide Shut – Making the Most of Meaningful Use, for Healthcare Providers, Insurers, and Patients
When I ask a room of 100 health plan leaders, “how many of you know what HL7 is,” and only a third raise their hands, I realize there had been a...
July 1, 2015 – the start of the Meaningful Use Stage 1 Year 2 reporting period for the hospital facilities within this provider integrated delivery network...
Last fall I had a chance to sit down with Mandi Bishop, Principal at Adaptive Project Solution, and better known as @mandibpro on Twitter for a Google Plus...
For those of you who read Hospital EMR and EHR but don’t read EMR and HIPAA (which from our latest survey is far too many of you), I wanted to highlight...
In my January update on Meaningful Use Stage 2 readiness, I painted a dismal picture of a large IDN’s journey towards attestation, and expressed concern for...
Happy New Year? As I begin the 2014 Meaningful Use measures readiness assessment and vendor cat-herding exercises, I’m reflecting on this portion of CMS’s...
In a recent hangout with John Lynn discussing Healthcare Big Data and Meaningful Use Challenges, he asked me why incorporating more agile development practices...
Most discussions on Meaningful Use (MU) seem to focus on a single healthcare provider organization (acute or ambulatory), with a single EMR, and a single...
According to Twitter analytics, one of my more engaging tweets recently stated that Meaningful Use is stifling innovation by requiring that health IT vendors...