Achieving Meaningful Use With LSS and MEDITECH
A long while back I reported about how to potentially get all of the Meaningful Use objectives out of LSS before Stage 1 was final and before LSS had even taken its first stab at helping their customers out. Now that the criteria is set for Stage 1 and Stage 2, and LSS has come up with … Continue reading
The Changing Hospital Feeder System
The act of a major tertiary care hospital acquiring a number of smaller community hospitals is not a new concept. In terms of healthcare business models, the industry is fairly monochrome. Strategically speaking, the idea is to siphon or “feed” patients from hospitals that are providing a standard level of care to the more advanced … Continue reading
Help The Electronic Health Records. They Are Being Abused!
At this point I think I may revert back to the old-fashioned term of Electronic MEDICAL Records because suddenly they’ve gone from saviors of the healthcare industry to tools of the money-grubbing doctors…at least according to some. That and we’ve realized that they help the medical community more than they improve the health of people. … Continue reading
Meaningful Use Attestations Show the Rich Get Richer
Originally posted on HISTalk Practice. Meaningful Use charts and graphs are a dime a dozen these days and as much as I’d like to add another bar or delicious pie chart to the mix, I just can’t bring myself to do it. I have no reservations about creating maps from the data though! For the … Continue reading
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
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
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
Meaningful Use Proposed Rule Word Cloud
I’m not quite sure what compelled me to do a word cloud of the ARRA HITECH “Meaningful Use” Proposed Rule, but I did it. Perhaps it was because I haven’t seen one yet. I think it’s interesting to note that there’s a whole lot more in the proposed rule about payments and incentives than actually … Continue reading
Aaron Berdofe, MHI - Health Informatics 