Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Recent Headlines 15-01-2013

AMA, CHIME air 'concerns' about Stage 3


Drummond Group publishes 'decision guide' for 2014 Edition testing


Certification new focus of Connectathon

Resources

IDC Health Insight's Moving From Paper to Electronic Health Records: Optimizing the Transition


Lahey Clinic's EMR Transition Accelerated


Peer Benchmarking Report on Providers' Progress Toward EMR Scanning

"A perfect storm of innovation": The future according to Nuance's Dr. Nick van Terheyden

Date: Jan 08, 2013
Yesterday, we surveyed a survey of a number of health IT stakeholders to get a sense of some regrets for the last year and hopes for the next. Today, however, we hear more in-depth from Nick van Terheyden, MD, CMIO for Nuance Communications.Read more »

Study points to importance of training

Date: Jan 10, 2013
Sometimes it takes a study to deliver a message that, to put it mildly, we probably should have expected.The latest case in point is a study conducted by researchers at Weill Cornell Medical College which found that healthcare providers who switched to EHRs made better use of them after they'd received extensive technical training.Read more »

EHRs are dead! Long live EHRs!

Date: Jan 14, 2013
What a difference a follow-up report can make! If we took all our news exclusively from our various cyber feeds, we'd have thought the collective decision had been made to stop the health IT revolution on a dime and start all over again. Read more »

AMA urges evaluation of MU program


Date: Jan 15, 2013
While many healthcare providers are lucky if they've moved beyond even Stage 1 of Meaningful Use, policymakers are well into considering the potential details of Stage 3. Read more »