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Add Your Voice: Meaningful Use Regulations Mustn’t Leave Patient Engagement in the Dust

By David Harlow | May 20, 2015

There are two sets of Meaningful Use draft regulations out for comment at present: (1) Proposed revisions to Meaningful Use Stage 2 (“MU2”), with comments due June 15 and (2) Proposed Meaningful Use Stage 3 (“MU3”) regulations, to be effective in 2017 at the earliest....

Meaningful Use Stage 3 – Society for Participatory Medicine Comments on Proposed Objectives

By David Harlow | January 14, 2013

The Health IT Policy Committee of the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT released its proposed Stage 3 objectives for Meaningful Use. “Eligible Providers” that meet these objectives share in the federal electronic health record incentive...

@Ahier on Stage 2 Meaningful Use rules

By e-Patient Dave | August 30, 2012

SPM member Brian Ahier @Ahier is one of the best known and most respected voices for patient engagement in the “health IT geek” world. He’s Health IT Evangelist for Information Systems at Mid-Columbia Medical Center in The Dalles, Oregon, which is a...

SPM’s responses to the proposed rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2

By e-Patient Dave | May 5, 2012

Afternoon additions: You too can submit your opinion on the official public comment site. They even allow uploading attachments. As I just told a friend on Facebook: “How often, before this administration, did Washington make it truly easy for anyone to tell...

Petition and Call for Public Comments (from you): Strengthen the Patient Engagement requirements of Stage 2 Meaningful Use

By e-Patient Dave | April 15, 2012

SPM member Brian Ahier posted this petition notice – and call for comments to the government – on the SPM member listserv. Written by Dave Chase of Avado, it deserves public attention. ONC: Strengthen the Patient Engagement requirements of Stage 2...

An e-Patient Perspective on Stage 2 of Meaningful Use (Adrian Gropper)

By e-Patient Dave | February 27, 2012

At last week’s enormous HIMSS (health IT) conference, ONC (the Office of the National Coordinator for health IT) announced the long-awaited rules for Stage 2 of meaningful use. (These are the rules that must be met, for health IT systems to qualify for Federal...

Lack of “innovation” as vendors focus on meaningful use?

By e-Patient Dave | February 24, 2011

EMR and HIPAA is a great blog about health IT technology – well written, thoughtful, with personality. But I disagreed today with a post about the huge HIMSS conference (Health Information Management Systems Society) that ends today in Orlando. John wrote that...

Putting patients into “meaningful use”

By David Harlow | February 23, 2011

The Health Research Institute at PricewaterhouseCoopers released a report today entitled Putting patients into “meaningful use.” It begins with the anecdote I’ve blogged about previously regarding a diagnosis by Facebook in lieu of a PHR, which some...

CMS slides from the Meaningful Use rules announcement

By e-Patient Dave | July 19, 2010

At last Tuesday’s announcement of the Meaningful Use rules, many people asked for the slides. After going through clearances, they arrived today. Click for 44 page PDF (649k). Correction 12:19pm ET 7/19: the PDF has been replaced with a PowerPoint, which we...

Testimony submitted to the Meaningful Use workgroup (and an urgent call for citizen participation)

By e-Patient Dave | April 16, 2010

There’s an important call to action below. If you care about making healthcare more responsive to us, and less responsive to vendors, please read to the end. This is short. Thanks to all of you who submitted comments on this week’s post, offering feedback....