Wednesday, March 7th, 2012 at 13:12
The Fund for Public Health in New York, Inc. is dedicated to the advancement of the health and well-being of all New York City residents. FPHNY works with the NYC Health Department to develop innovative, valuable and lasting public-private partnerships that increase the capacity and reach of the NYC Health Department. It is the FPHNY that was established as on of our nationwide regional extension center programs.
The NYC Regional Electronic Adoption Center for Health (NYC REACH) was formed as a collaboration between the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Fund for Public Health in New York to help make sure doctors in New York City don’t get left behind. Their mission is to assist providers in adopting technology and methods that measurably improve the health of New Yorkers.
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Sunday, March 4th, 2012 at 12:40
The AeHN Regional Extension Center has established a “vendor friendly” policy which addresses the unique demographic, geographic, and EHR adoption challenges in Alaska and the need for qualified vendors as partners in our organization to support priority primary care providers and hospitals in their EHR adoption process. Each vendor must agree to perform provider practice service(s) in congruence with our Vendor Services Agreement and our responsibilities as grantee under our cooperative agreement with the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology.
In addition, all EHR products must be either:
Certified* for stage one Meaningful Use and, based on expert opinion, are expected to be certified to meet stage two and three criteria, or
Anticipated to AeHN or other appropriate healthcare experts to achieve certification for stage one by the end of 2011 and, based on expert opinion, are capable of certification for stage two and three criteria.
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Sunday, February 26th, 2012 at 18:22
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the next steps for providers who are using electronic health record (EHR) technology and receiving incentive payments from Medicare and Medicaid. These proposed rules, from the Centers for Medicaid & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), will govern stage 2 of the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. If you read the report you will see that there is more emphasis on providers using “direct project” and “health information exchange” capabilities.
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Monday, February 20th, 2012 at 15:58
Chad Johnson from Corepoint Health provides an excellent series of six articles on health information exchanges. The second of six provides an overview of the different types of HIE models; federated, centralized, hybrid and private. It is worth the read.
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Sunday, February 19th, 2012 at 16:57
Chad Johnson from Corepoint Health provides an excellent series of six articles on health information exchanges. This first of six covers the motivation behind having an HIE.
Now that the majority of innovative healthcare organizations have invested the capital, the time and the effort to install electronic medical records, many are looking to fully leverage the technology by connecting to a health information exchange, or HIE.
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Sunday, January 8th, 2012 at 14:15
Here is a video on CHITREC, the Chicago Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center and what they offer to health care professionals in Chicago.
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Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 at 17:39
This is a humorous video about what eligible providers need to know about getting meanginful use incentive dollars from CMS.
The American College of Medical Informatimusicology :) presents the Meaningful Yoose Rap, written and performed by Dr. HITECH, aka Ross D. Martin, MD, MHA. Directed by Ishu Krishna.
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 21:41
Meaningful Use NOW speaker Bill Petasnick of Wisconsin’s Froedtert Health System argues that the best way to unify health IT platforms across various organizations may be to use an open source, open-architecture solution. But, how many organizations are willing to consider an open source set of programs?
It seems like most organizations would rather pay vendors ...
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Tuesday, December 13th, 2011 at 20:56
Dr. Joxel Garcia of the Puerto Rico Regional Extension Center discusses how EHRs help improve care, specifically among underserved patients.
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Tuesday, December 6th, 2011 at 09:20
The Boulder County Business Report published an article on November, 11, 2011 regarding the costs that physician practices face if they want to be part of a health information exchange or implement an electronic medical record system in order to achieve meaningful use.
If physicians want to particpate in CORHIO (the Colorado Regional Health Information Organization) ...
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