Meaningful Use EHR Adoption & Meaningful Use Progress is Assessed in New Data Briefs
Jennifer King | December 19, 2012
Two recent data briefs reported strong growth in electronic health record (EHR) adoption rates among physicians, with 72% reporting EHR adoption, 66% intending to participate in the health IT incentive program, and substantial growth in nearly all the individual functionalities associated with “Meaningful Use.”
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Meaningful Use Interoperability a Hot Topic at the ONC Annual Meeting
Peter Garrett | December 12, 2012
A “hot topic” at today’s ONC Annual Meeting is interoperability, and how interoperability can improve patient care. Two of the meeting’s panelists for the HIE and Interoperability: Sharing Information to Improve Patient Care session, have posted blog entries today with their thoughts on the subject.
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Meaningful Use Guest Blog from the 2012 ONC Annual Conference: Interoperability Gets Real
John Halamka | December 12, 2012
Today I’m speaking at the ONC annual meeting as part of panel discussing interoperability.
For years, patients, providers and payers have complained that EHRs “do not talk to each other.”
By 2014, I expect this issue to disappear. Why?
Meaningful Use Guest Blog from the 2012 ONC Annual Conference: Broadening the Nature of Health Care Interoperability
Justin Barnes | December 12, 2012
Stage 2 Exchange Milestones Not Limited to System Infrastructures
As the headlines surrounding Meaningful Use Stage 2 focus on specific interoperability tied to summary of care, information exchange in many forms is really the broader theme as Meaningful Use helps drive care coordination.
Meaningful Use States Demonstrate Success in Meaningful Use Acceleration Efforts
Fadesola Adetosoye | December 12, 2012
The numbers are in and meaningful use of Meaningful Use appears to be working. In Ohio, nearly half of the providers in the Cincinnati Beacon Community program have achieved meaningful use. In Maine, 83% of the patient population is electronically sharing health care information with their providers, facilitated by the statewide Health Information Exchange (HIE), HealthInfoNet.
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