• Contributing Writer · August 25, 2010

  Hospital EMR usage can help achieve new Joint Commission accreditation standards

  Measuring quality of care in hospitals is undergoing change. Two interrelated factors are fueling this change: changes from the Joint Commission as they accredit hospitals, and changes in what is expected from hospital Electronic Health Records(EHRs) for Meaningful Use. Continue

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• Contributing Writer · August 13, 2010

  How to connect Health Information Exchange (HIE) with Electronic Medical Records

  Health information technology (health IT) is seen as central to improving healthcare delivery, and is the focus of the HITECH section of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (which sets up and funds bonuses for Meaningful Use of Certified EHR technology). A... Continue

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• Contributing Writer · August 6, 2010

  ICD-10 Conversion: Coming to your EHR

  The way we have all become accustomed to encoding diagnoses in health care will be changing quite dramatically in 2013. Since 1977, healthcare has captured structured diagnosis documentation using the ICD-9 system – in the U.S. the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) expanded on... Continue

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• Contributing Writer · July 30, 2010

  Patient access to their own EMR data

  Involving patients as active participants in their own care is an important goal of improving American healthcare. The national priorities called out by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC), as it has elaborated rules for the Meaningful Use of Electronic Health... Continue

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• Contributing Writer · July 27, 2010

  Healthcare Providers on Twitter and Facebook: What You Need to Know

  The following post is a reprint from The Health Express: Continue

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