EMR Implementation & HITECH Act Blog
A blog for doctors and medical office staff seeking assistance with EMR and the HITECH Act.
Tag Archives: HITECH Incentives
2010
Research Shows That Electronic Medical Records Save Babies’ Lives
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We talk a lot in this blog about the financial aspects of Electronic Medical Records (EMRs), and with good reason – they can entail a substantial investment in time and money. But it’s sometimes easy to lose sight of the purpose of all that investment – to save lives.
2010
MIPPA Provides Incentives for E-Prescribing
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American health care providers write close to 3 billion prescriptions per year, according to a number of estimates, with about 80% of them being written by hand. A recent study conducted by the Weill Cornell Medical School in New York found that about 4 of every 10 handwritten prescriptions had an error while the rate of errors found in electronic prescriptions is around one-seventh of that, or about 6%.
2010
Financing of EMRs Carries Both Risks and Rewards
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Physicians looking to adopt Electronic Health Records (EHRs) are facing an interesting dilemma. Incentive money won’t be available from the government for the the implementation of EHRs until 2011, but implementation will require spending substantial amounts of money now – as much as $25,000 to $50,000 per provider, by some estimates – to get the system up and running and qualify for those incentives.
Filed under: EHR, EMR, Electronic Health Records
Tagged: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, EMR Software, HITECH Incentives
2009
Health Information Technology: A View From The Inside, Part 2
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In a continuation of yesterday’s post, we’ll finish our discussion with Dr. Brian Keaton, President and CEO of NEO RHIO. NEO RHIO is a Regional Health Information Organization serving 22 counties in Northeast Ohio. Dr. Keaton is a past President and Board Chairman of the 26,000 member American College of Emergency Physicians, an emergency physician and a professor of emergency medicine at the Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine. Let’s continue to hear from him about how all the pieces of the EMR puzzle will fit together in relation to the HITECH Act.
Filed under: EMR, Electronic Medical Records, HITECH Act
Tagged: EMR, HITECH, HITECH Incentives, RHIO
2009
The HITECH Act – what it means to a health care professional
The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, otherwise known as the HITECH Act, is on the minds of many health care professionals. This legislation will affect technical, procedural and managerial aspects of your daily practice. Specifically, the HITECH Act will address the issue of computer upgrades as well as electronic storage of patients’ medical records. Continue reading below video >>
2009
Listen to HITECH Act Podcast from Massachusetts Health Data Consortium CEO
The Massachusetts Health Data Consortium has decades of experience bringing regional medical providers together to encourage innovation and collaboration. To get their perspective on the HITECH Act and electronic health records (a.k.a. electronic medical records), I spoke with the MHDC’s CEO, Ray Campbell. Listen to what Campbell has to say about this “messy … chaotic transition” that will form the foundation of any future health care system in this country.
Gretchen Siegchrist
PC Healthstop Blogging Team
Filed under: Electronic Health Records, HIT, HITECH Act
Tagged: EHR, HIPAA, HIT, HITECH Incentives, HITECH Privacy, HITECH timelines
2009
Welcome to a New EMR Blog for Health Care Professionals
Starting in the 4th century B.C., when Hippocrates first uttered the words “Primum Non Nocere” and continuing through February 2009, when President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, there have been rules and regulations governing the practice of medicine.
Some rules, such as that famous dictum “first do no harm”, are easy to understand. Others, such as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) are not.
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Filed under: Electronic Medical Records, HIPAA, HITECH Act
Tagged: EHR, EHR Implementation, EMR, HITECH Compliance, HITECH Incentives
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