Archive for the ‘Meaningful Use’ Category

The sound of HIMSS 13 has quieted and now the work continues to follow through on the connections made and the initiatives launched. The CommonWell Health Alliance is one that will be closely watched as the work unfolds. Work is what will be required to make the CommonWell initiative happen. There are doubts as to [...]

Technology, payment reform, and advancements in social and behavioral sciences are creating a perfect storm, leading to rapid acceleration in our understanding of how to improve health outcomes in a networked world, let’s call it “networked health science.” Engagement is Relationships Patient engagement is a key outgrowth of our understanding this new era. Providing real [...]

Recently the HHS Office of the National Coordinator announced the new and improved Blue Button+.  The original Blue Button initiative was aimed at making it easy for patient’s to access their personal health information in a useable and safe digital format. It started with the federal government and then spread to the private sector. The [...]

I recently had the opportunity to sit down with my colleague Kathleen Rafter to discuss Meaningful Use from the clinician/patient perspective. I thought it would be good to share a little of “how the other half lives” in this space since so much of the Meaningful Use discussion on HL7Standards focuses on healthcare standards and [...]

As the healthcare industry moves towards increased sharing of patient data, the challenge has become how to share and store that data between systems without losing the true clinical meaning of the diagnosis. In a conversational way, a paragraph of words by the clinician can most effectively present the full meaning of the diagnosis. But [...]

With all the talk about Big Data (Big B, Big D) in all technology and business circles and with Big Data nearing the peak of the Gartner Hype cycle, are we ready to start talking about it in health care? Can we have Big Data in health care ahead of real connectivity and Meaningful Use? Is [...]

Health Level Seven® International (HL7®) made a significant announcement on Sept. 4, 2012. It revealed a “decision to make much of its intellectual property (IP), including standards, freely available under licensing terms.” There are more details to come as to how this will unfold, and the health IT community will need to wait until the [...]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published the final rule yesterday detailing the Meaningful Use Stage 2 requirements. The rule spans 672 pages, and in large part leaves the proposed rules released earlier this year intact with a few exceptions. The rule delays the Stage 2 requirements to 2014, giving providers more time to [...]

Fred Trotter, co-author of O’Reilly’s Meaningful Use and Beyond, is diving in head first into the quantified self movement, and for good reason: Quantified self and Meaningful Use are becoming meaningfully connected. On the surface, the areas of Meaningful Use and quantified self may seem far apart: one’s a government-run incentive program to enable health [...]

For me, one of the big advantages of healthcare social media is learning more about our system, our role, and the opportunities ahead. A few months ago, I learned about a new book being written by Eric Topol, M.D., entitled The Creative Destruction of Medicine. It sounded intriguing so I immediately pre-ordered it. The timing [...]