LAS VEGAS – At HIMSS12 this week, Health Level Seven International (HL7) announced a pilot program that will offer some of its intellectual property, free of charge, in an effort to spur further EHR implementations. “HL7 is keeping its promise to lower the barriers to adoption of electronic healthcare records by making portions of our valuable intellectual property freely available to our stakeholders,” said Charles Jaffe, MD, CEO of HL7. [...]
At the third annual mHealth Summit in Washington D.C., major players in the mobile arena noted the impact mobile phones and other devices have and will continue to have both in the US and across the globe. Paul Jacobs, chairman and CEO of Qualcomm, the closing keynote speaker at the mHealth Summit, predicted nearly 4 billion smart phones would be sold between now and 2014. “The mobile device in your hand gives you [...]
Standards development organization Health Level Seven International recently announced new elections to its board of directors. Catherine Chronaki, an HL7 Greece board member, was reelected as an affiliated director. Jill Kaufman, director of personalized healthcare services at the College of American Pathologists, won reelection to another term as a director. Edward Hammond, professor emeritus at Duke University, is ending a term as vice chair and ran and won election as [...]
In what may as well be part of “Meaningful Use 101″ curriculum for physicians, American Medical News this week examines a key but potentially problematic element of the federal standards required to earn Medicare or Medicaid bonus payments for EMR usage: healthcare information exchange. Certification of EMRs should remove one hurdle toward successful HIE, namely finding a product capable of securely transferring patient data among other healthcare providers, payers, laboratories, pharmacies [...]
The passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act brought some benefits for chiropractors that have been widely publicized, but, as is oft quoted, “The large print giveth and the fine print taketh away.” There are some surprises in the health care act, one of the most immediate of which concerns Medicare enrollment. Subtitle E – Medicare, Medicaid and CHIP Program Integrity Provisions, on page 629 of the act, lists [...]
By Mary Mosquera A panel advising the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) said it will heed the overwhelming consensus it has received in recent public comments to develop the simplest possible certification standards for accelerating health IT adoption. The Health IT Standards Committee’s implementation workgroup reported today that it distilled the testimony of industry organizations within and outside healthcare, as well as contributors to its public [...]
By Ken Congdon, Healthcare Technology Online In my coverage of the healthcare technology industry, I’ve noticed that many software and hardware vendors, clinicians, and even some analysts tend to use the terms EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record) interchangeably. However, according to the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), there is a distinct difference between the two. The NAHIT defines EMR and EHR as follows: EMR [...]
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