Tag Archive: EHR
October 3rd is the Last Day for EPs to Begin their 90-Day Reporting Period for 2012
August 14, 2012
Wednesday, October 3rd, is the last day for eligible professionals (EPs) to begin their 90-day reporting period for calendar year (CY) 2012 for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. For EPs, this means that they must begin their consecutive 90-day reporting period by October 3rd in order to attest to meeting meaningful use and be eligible ...
More »Our July and August columns in Chicago Medicine
August 9, 2012
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}Chicago Medicine, the magazine of the Chicago Medical Society, has not posted onto the web their July and August 2012 issues. CHITREC has been writing a regular feature on page 6 of the publication since April.
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More »CHITREC featured by the American Osteopathic Association
May 2, 2012
The American Osteopathic Association has a new feature about implementation of eletronic health records, and CHITREC is front and center.
Click here to read the article and watch a video of our own co-executive director Abel Kho!
Meaningful Use Jump-Start Workshop
May 2, 2012
Our Meaningful Use Jump-Start Workshop is designed to create an intimate learning and interactive experience around Meaningful Use for health care providers, practice managers and anyone else interested in how Meaningful Use can affect practice workflow. We will walk each attendee through the Meaningful Use requirements and also provide a scenario to highlight Meaningful Use ...
More »CHITREC & Quality Improvement Organization partner to provide assistance and incentives
February 3, 2012
We are excited to announce that IFMC-IL, our state’s Medicare Quality improvement Organization, is partnering with the REC to assist you in maximizing the use of your electronic health record (EHR) system for quality reporting and improvement. They have formed a Learning and Action Network (LAN) to help you provide better patient care, better population ...
More »Obama Administration Encouraging Doctors and Hospitals to Utilize HIT
December 1, 2011
We Can’t Wait: Obama Administration takes new steps to encourage doctors and hospitals to use health information technology to lower costs, improve quality, create jobs
Read more of this article here.
Source: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
Reduce Patient Fears, Raise HCAHPS Scores
November 6, 2011
Not everyone feels the same way about the blue “H” sign indicating a hospital’s proximity. For Colleen Sweeney, RN, the sign is a reminder to whip out her phone to go on hospitalcompare.com and see how the hospital stacks up next to Memorial Hospital and Health System in South Bend IN, where she works as ...
More »User-Friendly EHR’s
November 2, 2011
National Institute of Standards and Technology solicits input on how to make electronic health records better, safer.
The National Institute of Standards (NIST), in conjunction with public and private sector stakeholders, has called on the healthcare community to help evaluate electronic health records (EHRs), examine the human factors that are crucial to their design, and assist ...
More »EHR’s Improving Health: A cancer patient’s story
November 2, 2011
Pam Crum was 22 weeks pregnant in October 2004 when she noticed a red rash on one breast. Her doctor thought it was simply an inflammation that sometimes occurs in lactating mothers. Over a couple of weeks, the rash worsened. Then a lump formed.
Crum was sent to a breast surgeon for a more thorough examination, ...
More »Limited Legal EHR Protection
October 28, 2011
Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) has introduced legislation that if enacted would grant limited legal protection to Medicare and Medicaid providers in the event of an error that occurs while using electronic health records.
“The Safeguarding Access for Every Medicare Patient Act,” H.R. 3239, would limit electronic discovery in a legal action to information related to the ...
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