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EHR Case Studies, Regional Extension Centers Finding a Personal Meaning in Meaningful Use
Theresa Walunas | March 16, 2011
At the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center (CHITREC) we’ve had many discussions about what Meaningful Use means. We’ve discussed core sets, menu sets, quality measurements, numerators, denominators, eligibility thresholds, attestation, electronic health record (EHR) certification and reporting tools. On the surface, Meaningful Use looks to be a very complicated thing. Why else would we need 62 Regional Extension Centers, a national outreach program, and a small army of talented clinical and technical people across the country to help our health care providers achieve it?
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Beacon Communities, EHR Case Studies An Innovative, Community-based Approach to Smoking Cessation
Jason Kunzman | March 10, 2011
One of the criteria set forth in Stage One Meaningful Use guidelines pertains to capturing information at the point of care about patients’ smoking status, and as relevant, offering counseling to help patients quit smoking. While attending the Rhode Island Statewide Patient Centered Medical Home Learning Collaborative on February 5, we learned about the kinds of innovations that this aspect of meaningful use may inspire and make more widespread in the future.
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Health Innovation, SHARP A SHARP Milestone – A New Innovation Challenge
Wil Yu | March 8, 2011
Today one of the recipients of the ONC’s Strategic Health IT Advanced Research Projects (SHARP) announced a major milestone . Researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, leaders of the Healthcare Applications and Networking Platforms SHARP award, announced a major breakthrough having developed a first of kind platform architecture to support a flexible health information technology (IT) environment and promote innovation.
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Electronic Health & Medical Records Important New Evidence on the Journey to HIT-Assisted Health Care
Dr. David Blumenthal | March 8, 2011
When Christopher Columbus set sail from Palos in the Gulf of Cadiz, he knew he had theory and experience on his side. The theoretical conception of the Earth as an orb was as solid as it could be. And Columbus had experience of the trade winds that could speed him both westward and eastward. Yet the final evidence was his to provide.
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Beacon Communities, EHR Case Studies Electronic Health Record Adoption: Is There Optimism for Primary Care?
Gregory C. Reicks | March 3, 2011
I recently celebrated 21 years as an independent family practitioner in Grand Junction, CO. Frustrated and exhausted from trying to maintain my income and practice in the face of ever-increasing overhead expenses, I was not expecting to celebrate many more years at my job. That was until we began our journey with health information technology (health IT).
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