Engaging Conversations on Healthcare and Technology
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
Posted in EHR, HITECH, Meaningful Use | View Comments
During an #HITsm tweet chat in February, I asked participants if they believed the momentum in EHR adoption by healthcare facilities initiated from HITECH and Meaningful Use would continue, if for whatever reason, funding for Meaningful Use was halted or... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012
Posted in CCD, EHR, HIE | View Comments
Several questions can arise when considering whether to parse the data of a CCD document from a remote facility and merge it into the local EHR. HIEs are spurring increased emphasis on the use of CCD documents to exchange information among facilities, so... Read entry ⇒
Thursday, February 17th, 2011
Posted in EHR, Meaningful Use | View Comments
Electronic Health Records or EHRs are one of the essential solutions to move our health care system into the digital age, yet the conversation still questions, at times, the real value of the electronic system. Regardless, HITECH is incenting the change ... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, August 31st, 2010
Posted in EHR, Meaningful Use | View Comments
...0;Less than two months following the issuance of final meaningful use rules, we have approved our initial ONC-ATCB certifiers. EHR vendors can begin immediately to get their products certified. This is a crucial step because it ensures that certified EHR... Read entry ⇒
Monday, May 16th, 2011
Posted in CCD, CCR, Healthcare Integration, Meaningful Use | View Comments
As the product manager of Corepoint Integration Engine, it has been an interesting learning experience from the time the decision was made to pursue the EHR modular certification to the time certification was achieved. And, before beginning the certifica... Read entry ⇒
Friday, November 6th, 2009
Posted in EHR, HL7 Standard | View Comments
...nical research in an electronic health record system (EHR-S).” In the press release, Donald Mon, PhD, co-chair of the HL7 EHR Work Group and member of the HL7 Board of Directors, stated: “This profile is an excellent demonstration of how impor... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011
Posted in EHR, Healthcare Standards, HL7 Messaging | View Comments
...n) is an HL7 v2.x based message profile used for the reporting of lab results from laboratory information systems to ambulatory EHRs. This month, the California Healthcare Foundation has released the “ELINCS Orders Draft Specification Version 0.2” for pub... Read entry ⇒
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
Posted in EHR, EMR | View Comments
... congratulations! Chalk one up for simplifying healthcare. One less healthcare acronym we have to remember and explain! EMR and EHR created confusion. From healthcare standards to all the various applications, healthcare has its own alphabet. Maybe part o... Read entry ⇒
Friday, October 9th, 2009
Posted in EHR, Meaningful Use | View Comments
Although the Meaningful Use definitions are not completed, the Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology (CCHIT) announced two types of EHR certifications: CCHIT Certified 2011 Preliminary ARRA 2011 CCHIT defines the two types of ... Read entry ⇒
Friday, October 22nd, 2010
Posted in EHR, EMR | View Comments
...ailable at no cost by the California Health Care Foundation called the ELINCS Data Generation and Evaluation tool, or EDGE. The EHR-Lab Interoperability and Connectivity Standards (ELINCS) are clinical data standards, adopted by the Health Level 7 organiz... Read entry ⇒
