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EHR 2014: Highlights of the Proposed Stage 2 Certification Rule
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2012
In March, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT published a proposed rule on EHR certification, a companion to the proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use EHR incentive program that was published on the same day by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Access + Understanding: The Role of Health Literacy in Patient-Centric Health IT
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: May 2010
Improving the ability of patients to understand and apply health information goes hand in hand with designing systems that deliver it. Both are needed to improve outcomes and reduce disparities.
Recent federal initiatives to promote health IT, including the “meaningful use” EHR incen....
Fall Preview: A Look at the Season’s Expected Rules
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: November 2011
Perhaps one of the biggest jobs related to implementing the ARRA provisions right now is keeping track of the moving parts. Publication of the act in 2009 was a kind of Big Bang-an explosion of provisions that rocked the healthcare universe. Since then, however, the pieces have traveled at dif....
Little Breaches: OCR Releases First “Small Breach” Data
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: October 2011
The Office for Civil Rights has been publicly reporting incidents of large-scale health data breaches since early 2010, but last month it reported to Congress numbers that the industry has only guessed at to date-the reports it has received of breaches involving fewer than 500 individuals.
Breathing Room: Early Adopters Have More Time for Stage 2
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: January 2012
Last summer the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT heard repeatedly from providers and vendors that they would not have time to prepare for stage 2 of the meaningful use program. With a final rule on stage 2 not expected until summer 2012, vendors and hospitals did not see how th....
Access Report: OCR Tries Subtraction through Addition in Accounting of Disclosure Rule
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: July 2011
The Office for Civil Rights proposed rule on the HITECH modifications to the HIPAA accounting of disclosure provision contains an interesting attempt to balance the mandates of the statute with the realities of today's accountings.
OCR was faced with the difficult task of expanding a....
Pick One: Comparing the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2011
Approximately 77,000 healthcare providers had registered for the meaningful use EHR incentive programs through July, program officials told the Health IT Policy Committee at its August 3 meeting. That is a significant number, but it leaves plenty of eligible providers and hospitals still to re....
A Possible Delay for Stage 2
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: June 2011
This spring, as the first providers began attesting to their performance in stage 1 of the meaningful use program, the rest of the industry seemed too absorbed with the program's next phase to take much notice.
Through the spring a subgroup of the Health IT Policy Committee was prepa....
Rules of Spring: Reviewing the Upcoming Regulations on HIPAA Privacy Rule Modifications
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2011
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act came out with a bang in February 2009. The rules enacting its privacy and security provisions, however, have trickled out over the subsequent two years. Many of the provisions have the potential for significant impact on HIM operations, and the slow p....
What’s New in 2: Top Changes in the Stage 2 Rule
Author: Heubusch, Kevin
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: April 2012
There are few surprises in CMS's proposed rule on stage 2 of the meaningful use program. The provisions generally reflect the recommendations of the Health IT Policy Committee made last year, and in the case of the intended change to the timeline, an announcement was made last December.
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