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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Privacy and Security Help Shape the EHR Certification Process for Privacy & Security
Dixie B. Baker | December 5, 2012
ONC’s Certification Program includes the certification of two types of electronic health record (EHR) technology: Complete EHR and EHR Module. To meet the EHR adoption requirement to qualify for meaningful use incentive payments, an eligible professional or hospital can use either a Complete EHR, or a set of EHR Modules that collectively meets the definition of Certified EHR Technology (CEHRT). Responsibility for assuring that a set of certified EHR Modules can be successfully and securely integrated together is left up to the adopter.
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