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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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