LSS/MEDITECH Meaningful Use Checklist
For those of you looking for a good way to manage your LSS/MEDITECH MPM Meaningful Use setup and tracking, here is a spreadsheet with checklist that should do the trick. Loosely based on the LSS provided spreadsheet until I discovered theirs was left out a few things and didn’t have the best concept. This will … Continue reading
What EHR Vendors and Health IT Pundits Should Say About the ACA Ruling
Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
Additional Meaningful Use 2011 Report Analysis
Yesterday, I gave a quick analysis to the newly released Meaningful Use November 2011 Attestation Report. Below you will find some additional analysis focused on ambulatory attestations (Attestors are of “EP” Provider Type). However, please note that all statistical analysis is limited by the available data. What the CMS report does not have is the … Continue reading
Meaningful Use November 2011 Attestation Report
The CMS has released their Meaningful Use November 2011 Report for the masses to review. I have gone ahead and loaded the data into IBM’s wonderful Many Eyes site so you can play around with the data too. No big surprises have come out of this data. Epic is the heavyweight and is pulling in … Continue reading
ACOs and EHRs
Accountable Care Organizations are becoming the new Black. There are some of us who recognize how befitting that metaphor is given that healthcare models seem to have a cyclical nature to them. Mostly they cycle between physicians heading out to be independent from healthcare organizations and then coming back under the umbrella once again. Has … Continue reading
Engaging The Patient With Your EHR (And Why MEDITECH Can’t Help You)
The most underutilized resource in all of healthcare is the patient. For those unfamiliar, e-Patient Dave (Dave deBronkart) is a fairly well known blogger and activist who uses his personal experience to advance the proliferation of healthcare data into the hands of patients. No, this isn’t meaning through Patient Portals or PHRs. The idea is … Continue reading
ONC Certified HIT Product List Is Up!
ONC has set up a website that will list all of the certified HIT products for HITECH reimbursement. It is aptly called the Certified HIT Product List with the sexy acronym of CHPL. I think we should pronounce this: “Chip-uhl.” As of this morning, there are a total of 4 products on here and I’ve … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 