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Certified Meaningful
Author: Costa, Kerry F
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
This month providers will begin seeing the first EHR products approved for use in the "meaningful use" incentive program. Another piece of the ARRA puzzle is falling into place.
In March 2010 the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) proposed two programs to test and approve EHR p....
Meaningful Use—Final at Last: Final Rule Adds Flexibility to Objectives, Eases Measures
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
The final rule on the EHR incentive plan offers more "flexibility and choice" than the daunting proposed rule, adjusting the objectives and scaling back some of the measures. Now interested providers just need to figure out how to get with the program.
After perhaps the longest six m....
United RECs of America
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
Most of the 60 regional extension centers have officially launched operations and begun helping providers implement health IT.
The RECs were created under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided $642 million in grants for the centers' first two....
ARRA Timeline
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
ARRA arrived with a bang in February 2009, but the regulations enabling the law's healthcare provisions have inched forward since then. Much of the responsibility for drafting regulation fell to the Department of Health and Human Services, which had a tall order to fill within deadlines mandate....
Bold New World of ARRA: ARRA’s Provisions Are Redefining the Healthcare System and HIM Practice
Author: Dowling, Alan F.
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
Imagine yourself as a well-trained professional with an active role in the air travel industry in the early 1950s-the dawn of commercial jet travel. Until now, commercial air travel meant propellers and piston-powered engines. The technology that seemed so impressive just a few years before wa....
No Harm Done? Assessing Risk of Harm under the Federal Breach Notification Rule
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
Provisions within the HITECH Act require that covered entities notify individuals if their protected health information is breached. However, the current regulation allows an exemption if the risk of harm is slight. Assessing risk can be subjective, and privacy officers have been working to cr....
A First Peek at the Privacy Regulations
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
The office for Civil Rights got a late start on the HITECH privacy regulations (due last February), and it's clear from the draft rule it released in July that the office still has almost as many questions as answers on how to enact the HITECH provisions. However, the release does offer a good....
Aligning HIE: Model to Organize Networks on Core Principles, Collaborative Activities
Author: Finn, Zach; McNeill, Marjorie H; Cooper, Lontejuana S; Kaelin, Lawrence Dan; Byington, Allen
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
An HIE model developed in Florida leverages local and regional networks and offers a flexible, scalable framework that aligns them with national health IT and exchange priorities.
By Zach Finn; Marjorie H. McNeill, PhD, RHIA, CCS; Lontejuana S. Cooper, MSHA, RHIA, CPM; L....
$58 Billion to Go
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
The Department of Health and Human Services received approximately $146 billion in funds through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. It was tasked with disbursing that money through programs or objectives specified within the act's healthcare-related provisions.
Over the year....
Overview of the Meaningful Use Final Rule
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: August 25, 2010
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