Podcasts about meaningful use

What if I told you that in 2025, the way we access and exchange healthcare data will be fundamentally different?   For years, we've talked about interoperability—but now, we're seeing it take shape. Nearly 40% of the CommonWell network and most Q-HINs are responding to patient access requests, opening the door to a new era of seamless, secure, and patient-driven data exchange.   Paul L. Wilder, Executive Director of CommonWell Health Alliance, joins Eric to explore the future of healthcare data and the evolving landscape of healthcare interoperability. Learn about the CommonWell Marketplace, how patient access to data is improving, the increasing role of FHIR, and the critical aspects of trust and AI in healthcare. Paul provides key insights to help you and your organization position yourself for success.   This episode was recorded live at ViVE 2025 in Nashville.    About CommonWell   CommonWell is a not-for-profit interoperability advocate and Qualified Health Information Network under the Trusted Exchange Framework and Common Agreement (TEFCA), which facilitates the secure exchange of patient data across more than 36,000 provider sites, representing over 238 million individuals nationwide. CommonWell has enabled the exchange of more than 7.7 billion healthcare records. Visit https://www.commonwellalliance.org/.   About Paul Paul is leading the organization as it enters a new chapter in its pursuit of empowering clinicians, practitioners and individuals with interoperability services via its robust, nationwide network. With more than two decades of experience in health IT, Paul has held various roles focusing on imaging, clinical informatics, and interoperability.   Before joining CommonWell, Paul was Vice President of Strategy & Business Development for Philips Interoperability Solutions. He also spent close to 10 years with one of the largest regional HIE networks in the world, the New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC)—serving as its Chief Information Officer, Vice President of Product Management and Program Director for NYeC's Regional Extension Center. During his time with the NYeC, he helped nearly 10,000 primary care providers attest to Meaningful Use and solidified the state's status as one of the national leaders in health IT adoption. Each role enabled him to work and hear directly from providers and end-users of Electronic Health Records (EHRs)—which gives him an important perspective as a leader in health IT adoption and execution.   Paul received his Master of Business Administration from New York University, with a concentration in Finance and Operations. He also holds two bachelor's degrees from the University of Pennsylvania: one from the College of Arts and Sciences in Economics and the other from the School of Engineering and Applied Science in Biomedical Science. Paul lives in the New York area with his wife, two daughters and their newest family member, their dog Penny.   Bright Spots in Healthcare is produced by Bright Spots Ventures   Bright Spots Ventures brings healthcare leaders together to share working solutions or "bright spots" to common challenges. We build valuable and meaningful relationships through our Bright Spots in Healthcare podcast, webinar series, leadership councils, customized peer events, and sales and go-to-market consulting. We believe finding a bright spot and cloning it is the most effective strategy to improve healthcare in our lifetime.   Visit our website at www.brightspotsinhealthcare.com  

Tired of spending hours charting after a long day with patients? Freed.ai is an AI medical scribe that handles documentation for you. It listens, prepares notes, and writes patient instructions in real time, completing charting before the patient leaves—learning your style like a human scribe, but never quitting.Freed is loved by 3,000+ clinicians from every specialty. It is HIPAA compliant, takes 30 seconds to learn, and costs only $99/month. You can try Freed for free right now by going to freed.ai. Listeners of The Physician's Guide to Doctoring can use the PGD50 coupon code for $50 off the first month.____________________________________________Documentation is a necessary part of patient care, but it often comes at the cost of time, energy, and patient interaction. In this episode, Dr. George Rogu joins Dr. Bradley Block to discuss how integrating an AI scribe into his practice has transformed his workflow. Dr. Rogu details his journey from skepticism to full adoption, highlighting how the technology improves note quality, speeds up documentation, and enhances patient communication.They discuss why Dr. Rogu switched from traditional templates to AI-assisted notes, how the AI scribe saves mental effort for better patient care, and practical steps for using it, including HIPAA compliance and workflow integration. They also cover how to handle resistance from team members, address common concerns, and the real-world effects on billing, note accuracy, and patient trust. Whether you're excited about technology or unsure, this episode provides useful insights on making your practice more efficient and patient-focused.Three Actionable Takeaways:Try Before You Buy: Use trial periods to test how AI scribes fit your workflow before committing.Prioritize Patient Connection: With documentation handled, focus on making eye contact and understanding patient concerns.Stay Mindful of Workflow: Small process changes, like pausing recordings when not in the exam room, can prevent documentation errors.About the Show:The Physician Guide to Doctoring covers patient interactions, burnout, career growth, personal finance, and more. If you're tired of dull medical lectures, tune in for the real-world lessons we should have learned in med school!About the Guest:Dr. George D. Rogu is a pediatrician and CEO of RBK Pediatrics & Urgent Care, transforming a 50-year-old practice into Long Island's most technologically advanced pediatric provider. He leads 15 doctors, nurse practitioners, and 50+ staff, expanding into pediatric urgent care and earning certification in 2013. He implemented a Pediatric-Specific EHR system in 2008 and led the Meaningful Use program. Dr. Rogu introduced specialized programs in Pediatric Obesity, Asthma Care, ADHD Management, and International Adoption, serving 1,000 patients annually.Through AdoptionDoctors.com, he has helped over 150 families navigate the adoption process. He also oversees inpatient pediatric care at three hospitals and advocates for pediatric practice sustainability. As a board member of the Samaritan Physicians Organization and Nassau-Suffolk Pediatric Community Beacon HealthCare Partners IPA, he secures funding and quality incentives to support pediatricians.Socials and Website:RBK Pediatrics: rbkpediatrics.comThe Pediatric Lounge Podcast: https://thepediatriclounge.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/drgeorgerogu/About the Host:Dr. Bradley Block is a board-certified otolaryngologist at ENT and Allergy Associates in Garden City, NY. He specializes in adult and pediatric ENT with interests in sinusitis and obstructive sleep apnea. Dr. Block also hosts the Physician's Guide to Doctoring podcast, focusing on personal and professional development for physicians.Did you know...You can also be a guest on our show? Please email me at brad@physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect or visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to learn more about the show!Socials:@physiciansguidetodoctoring on FB@physicianguidetodoctoring on YouTube@physiciansguide on Instagram and Twitter  Visit www.physiciansguidetodoctoring.com to connect, dive deeper, and keep the conversation going. Let's grow! Disclaimer:This podcast is for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for professional medical, financial, or legal advice. Always consult a qualified professional for personalized guidance.

In this episode, Amy sits down with Ted Talk speaker, blogger, and activist, Dave deBronkhart. They delve into Dave's extraordinary journey of surviving stage 4 cancer and how his proactive approach in healthcare led to his survival and empowerment advocacy. Amy, who lives with cystic fibrosis, shares how Dave's work inspired her to take agency over her health. Together, they discuss the importance of patient empowerment, collaboration between patients and healthcare providers, and defining personal abundance beyond material success.  Tune in to learn how Dave is actively changing the culture of healthcare, creating an inspiring  patient-doctor partnership. More about Dave: Dave deBronkart, known on the internet as e-Patient Dave, is the author of the highly rated Let Patients Help: A Patient Engagement Handbook and one of the world's leading advocates for patient engagement. After beating stage IV kidney cancer in 2007 he became a blogger, health policy advisor and international keynote speaker. An accomplished speaker in his professional life before cancer, he is today the best-known spokesman for the patient engagement movement, attending over 650 conferences and policy meetings in 26 countries, including testifying in Washington for patient access to the medical record under Meaningful Use. A co-founder and chair emeritus of the Society for Participatory Medicine, e-Patient Dave has appeared in Time, U.S. News, USA Today, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and the HealthLeaders cover story “Patient of the Future.” His writings have been published in the British Medical Journal, the Patient Experience Journal,  iHealthBeat, and the conference journal of the American Society for Clinical Oncology. In 2009 HealthLeaders named him and his doctor to their annual list of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better,” and he's appeared on the cover of Healthcare IT News and the Australian GP magazine Good Practice. Dave's TED Talk Let Patients Help went viral, and for years was in the top half of the most viewed TED Talks of all time with over a half million views; volunteers have added subtitles in 26 languages, indicating the global appeal of his message. In 2012 the National Library of Medicine announced that it's capturing his blog in its History of Medicine Division, and he was the Mayo Clinic's 2015 Visiting Professor in Internal Medicine. Connect with Dave: https://www.epatientdave.com/ https://www.ted.com/talks/dave_debronkart_meet_e_patient_dave Connect with Amy Sylvis: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/amysylvis Contact Us: https://www.sylviscapital.com https://www.sylviscapital.com/webinar

Welcome back to Common Sense Medicine! This is the last post of the year, moving into the holidays, so wishing you happy holidays and a happy new year. In this episode, I'm joined by Stuart Blitz, who is the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer at Hone Health, a men's optimization clinic that offers at-home blood tests, tele-health consultations, and medication delivery. Prior to this, Stuart held the position of Chief Business Officer at Seventh Sense Biosystems (now YourBioHealth), where they played a key role in designing and developing the world's first push-button blood collection device. Before that, they worked at AgaMatrix, where they served as the Executive Director of Business Development and Strategy, as well as the Director of Worldwide Commercial Development. Stuart's experience spans over several years and includes a focus on improving healthcare systems and providing convenient solutions for consumers.Check out the episode on Spotify, iTunes, or YouTubeIf you've been forwarded this email and are just getting this for the first time— thanks for reading! I publish podcasts monthly and I'd love for you to subscribe using the link below.Video Version[1:00] Stuart's origin in HealthTech, and how he created the first-ever medical device for the original iPhone* Started his career and joined two founders who started AgaMatrix in the diabetes space* He had done Biomedical Engineering in college at Johns Hopkins, and he was sort of the “black sheep” there because people didn't want to go to health startups in 2002, but rather medical school or government or research* AgaMatrix made glucometers with test strips for diabetes and then launched a medical device company * They ended up getting to retail pharmacies, and 15 years later the device that they made is still on the shelves at CVS, Krogers, etc. * They started working with Apple in 2007, right around the release of the first iPhone, to create a smart glucometer which was cleared by the FDA* They were able to partner with Sanofi, and distributed their product in 20-30 countries[4:22] Why he decided to stay at AgaMatrix for 10+ years* Every 2-3 years, he did something new, so it didn't feel like that long * The first couple years were core startup mode to figure out product-market fit and raise capital. * The first idea was to make software to make glucometers work better. This was a stupid idea because people make money on the glucose test strips and not the glucometer themselves* The next few years were about growing and selling, and they signed a bunch of deals to distribute their products. One was Liberty Medical, which provided products to people on Medicaid* The last few years were about distribution, building around new partnerships like the international one with Sanofi and scaling their sales team to get into more patients' daily routines[7:07] How did he pivot to SeventhSense Bio? * He had a lot of experience in HealthTech and diagnostics, and had met SeventhSense Bio before joining them* They had an interesting angle on at-home testing, which would require an easy device to get that blood from the patient without the assistance of a healthcare professional* Met many founders (ex. Hims, Romans, and also the much-maligned Theranos) and saw the D2C angle for medications* Key insight was they haven't gotten to mass adoption because of cost angle, usability angle, and lab compatibility angle* Most important is the usability angle, because at-home diagnostic has to function 99% of the time, the first time (there are no “re-dos” because it isn't like the patient has another tube or a professional to help them at home). The devices that are on the market right now aren't there yet, but might get there* His thesis was that there are going to be way more D2C, cash-pay, access companies started but they're going to get started around high-niche customers who aren't getting serviced already by the system[11:39] Founding Hone Health* He met his current co-founder, Saad, and liked his story. Saad had turned 35 and he had all the symptoms of Low Testosterone (Low T)* Saad approached Stuart in his role at SeventhSense Bio and thought that his at-home device could help measure low T in his customers* Stuart said it might not work that way, but he was intrigued by the business model and decided to join Saad at Hone Health 4 years ago[13:23] What does he think was core to build Hone? * Shree's take: With D2C companies, I see three issues — the patient needs to know that they have the disease, they need to know where to go to treat it, and they need to make sure that the provider also knows how to treat this under-serviced condition* Something that was core to the offering that they built was through building their physician network. A lot of HealthTech companies would use Wheel or SteadyMD provider networks to get started, but the specialty care that Hone provides prevented them from doing this* Stuart can tell if the physician is knowledgable about treatment for male hormonal health in 1 minute — do they (1) know the patient population, (2) do they know the protocols around dosing testosterone, (3) are they committed to the clinic by responding frequently / giving this the seriousness that it deserves, (4) can you use technology well to treat patients, and (5) do they pass the vibe check. Below is a video of his real time reaction when a doctor says they don't know the correct dosing of testosterone* Hone's business model is that a physician meets with a patient after they get labs via a tele-medicine consult, and then they determine based on AUA guidelines whether a patient needs to get low T. Then, the patient gets on a subscription plan to pay for the treatment and has a consult every 90 days[21:54] Risks to Hone's business model by using telemedicine with controlled substances* Context: The Ryan Haight law prevents providers from using telehealth from prescribing controlled substances. It was temporarily waived during the pandemic, when people needed them to continue on treatment (think Suboxone for opioid dependance, or Testosterone like in this case)* Stuart doesn't think it will be a big risk because the law originally was meant to prevent people from googling “Vicodin” to buy it online. This law came out 15 years ago when telemedicine was far from prevalent* The DEA had a proposal (summarized by Stuart) that said that a patient should see a provider in person at least once in 90 days to continue on that prescription for the controlled substance. Hone's patient population would be OK seeing a practitioner, Stuart thinks, because they go to LabCorp every 90 days for a lab test to continue being on Testosterone* The DEA held sessions in September 2023 to learn more about what to do about this restriction, and they decided to make a special registration process to make sure that providers could be able to continue to prescribe controlled substances via a telemedicine pathway which (he thinks) will be finished by the end of next year (2024)[27:11] Surprising things that Stuart learned about the patient population at Hone* Patients want options, it's not about either getting labs taken at-home or in the clinic, but it's the option of getting it at one or the other. You could have a patient in a city who has LabCorp 10 minutes away from them, or a rural area where they have one 150 miles away [29:01] Hone Health's Unit Economics* Stuart thinks that Unit Economics have to work from day one, and that VC-backed companies cannot stay afloat if this basic tenet is not met because simply relying on growth will not outpace profitability* They want to expand to longevity, thyroid care, obesity, etc. Right now, they don't serve that and their providers will send them elsewhere to get that care[31:20] Stuart's hot takes on Twitter * Stuart thinks that there are many players in the space who are making money off of the “bad things” that are happening in healthcare. If you insert X thing here, and you ask “why isn't anyone disrupting this? It's terrible for patients,” there's probably someone profiting off of that* Hone Health might have some competition as more clinics pop up, and there is a “race to the bottom” as they compete on pricing, but they can compete on the value that they provide to the consumer* One of the key learnings that they had on Hone Health was that in order to keep OpEx low, they have to be scrappy. Stuart mentioned if you're starting out, just “use Google Sheets.” Then you can figure out how to get your first customers, and then build from there* Those learnings are very critical and they can serve the business [38:53] Building their own HIPAA compliant EMR * They are not serving a population which requires Meaningful Use metrics (i.e., Medicare), since they are out-of-pocket / cash pay for all of their costs, but if they were then they will add on compliance after the fact * They first got one off-the-shelf, but it was pretty bad and wasn't helpful. The off-the-shelf EMR was fine for doctors who were writing notes, but the problems came in from a product standpoint, where there weren't meaningful ways to onboard patients and have a good patient journey* This was complemented because each of the founders had their own expertise, so they were able to build a better company by having a lot of synergies (marketing, finance, ops, marketing, brand, etc.) [43:48] Stuart's vision for the future of Hone Health * At a minimum, they want to be able to network with payers. They want to reduce out-of-pocket costs for patients, and they want to expand the amount of benefits which they can tackle using Hone (i.e., longevity, etc.) This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.shreenadkarni.com

Are your data meetings all talk and no action? Join me as I chat with Jessica Zimmerman about how we can use the data we're collecting to guide instruction and meet the individual needs of our students. During this episode, we explore different types of data, the benefits of analyzing multiple forms of data including student work, and the characteristics of an effective data meeting. You'll learn about the benefits of using pre-assessment data and the importance of building in planning time after looking at data. Listen to this episode to learn more about the meaningful use of data for data-driven instruction. -Chrissy Beltran   Buzzing with Ms. B Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/buzzingwithmsb/ Buzzing with Ms. B TpT - https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Chrissy-Beltran-Buzzing-With-Ms-B Data Forms for Instructional Coaches - https://buzzingwithmsb.com/product/data-forms-for-instructional-coaches The Coaching Podcast Show Notes - https://buzzingwithmsb.com/Episode170   Thank you for listening to Buzzing with Ms. B: The Coaching Podcast. If you love the show, share it with a coach who would love it too, subscribe to this podcast, or leave me a review on iTunes! It's free and it helps others find this show, too. Happy coaching! Podcast produced by Fernie Ceniceros  

Whether you place the blame on wonky demand curves or misaligned incentive structures, there's no getting around it: the massive U.S. healthcare system just isn't delivering on its $4.3 trillion investment. Is it time for a medical Manhattan Project? In this special episode, Justin is joined by Jonathan Bush, founder and CEO of Zus Health, and Robert Musslewhite, Definitive Healthcare CEO, to debate the future of the US healthcare system – what's broken and who has what responsibility to fix it. Justin, Jonathan, and Robert discuss who's really at-fault – is it the government, the payors, or the healthcare systems themselves? One thing's for sure: it's not the patient's fault – or is it? They debate ideas for aligning payors, providers, employers, and patients. And they discuss the industry's long, winding, and never-ending road to IT interoperability, and why that interoperability might not be the panacea that so many people think it could be. Justin, Robert, and Jonathan openly wonder whether Meaningful Use and the “EMR-ification” of American healthcare was successful or not, and analyze how the emerging era of virtual care is going to change healthcare as we know it. At the end of their discussion, Jonathan lays out his vision for the hospital of the future – one that doesn't even require a physical building to operate. To learn more about Definitive Healthcare, please visit us at definitivehc.com.

On this episode of "The Dish on Health IT," hosted by Ken Kleinberg and Jocelyn Keegan from Point-of-Care Partners (POCP), healthcare technology enthusiasts were treated to an engaging discussion with a special guest, Alice O'Carroll, Interoperability Product Manager at Florida Blue.  Ken Kleinberg, the senior consultant and innovation lead at POCP, kickstarted the episode by extending a warm welcome to listeners, emphasizing POCP's pivotal role as trusted and independent health IT consultants. He expressed their unwavering dedication to uncovering the latest healthcare technology news and milestones.The episode promised an illuminating exploration of some of healthcare's most significant challenges and opportunities from a payer perspective including:• CMS MANDATES IN HEALTH IT: Ken introduced the episode by shedding light on the far-reaching impact of CMS mandates and other policy initiatives within the healthcare technology space. The hosts emphasized that merely adhering to regulations falls short; healthcare stakeholders must aspire to achieve more.• ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) IN HEALTHCARE IT: The episode delved into the transformative potential of AI in healthcare but perhaps used in a more mundane way than expected.  • ENHANCING DATA QUALITY IN HEALTHCARE: The hosts underlined the paramount importance of elevating data quality standards within healthcare. They highlighted how this mission not only benefits healthcare providers and payers but also empowers patients and enhances overall healthcare outcomes.• PATIENT CONSENT MANAGEMENT IN DIGITAL HEALTH: Among the critical issues discussed was the management of patient consent not only across the ecosystem but also the need for the patient to be able to grant access to pieces of information and not their full record. Most importantly, patients need a way to revoke consent at any time. Consent is a challenge demanding immediate attention within healthcare technology.Alice O'Carroll's introduction was met with enthusiasm as she joined the podcast as a distinguished guest. She donned multiple hats, including her role as the Interoperability Product Manager at Florida Blue and her status as one of the champions of the HL7 Da Vinci Project—a remarkable collaborative initiative.  Alice passionately shared her personal dedication to healthcare interoperability, tracing her journey into the realm of interoperability mandates and their profound impact. She underscored the unique role of these mandates in reshaping the entire business model of health IT. She explained that she had a deep belief that interoperability can usher in meaningful change, benefiting not only patients but also all stakeholders in the healthcare ecosystem.At Florida Blue, Alice and her team stood at the forefront of CMS mandate compliance, actively participating in industry workgroups like Da Vinci to ensure alignment with industry standards and drive positive transformation.The discussion swiftly transitioned to the impact of policy developments, particularly CMS mandates, on payers in the healthcare technology landscape. Alice offered her perspective, tracing the lineage of mandates back to CMS's Meaningful Use initiative. She painted a vivid picture of a rapidly evolving regulatory landscape, touching upon mandates such as the transparency and coverage mandate and the no-surprises act. Alice emphasized the vital role of industry involvement in effectively influencing and navigating these transformative regulations.Ken questioned the philosophy of merely checking the regulatory box and explored why organizations, including Florida Blue, should invest additional time and resources in healthcare technology. Alice passionately responded, underlining that the healthcare technology industry's business model is undergoing a profound shift. She explained that compliance with mandates like USCDI creates opportunities, such as payer-to-payer data exchange, but real value emerges from leveraging data to benefit members, lower costs, and enhance quality.The trio ventured into the thrilling domain of artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare technology. Ken and Jocelyn recognized the potential and challenges AI presents. Alice joined in, envisioning AI's role in transforming unstructured data into structured data, thus enhancing data quality and interoperability in healthcare technology.Alice and Jocelyn delved deeper into the pivotal topic of data quality, acknowledging the healthcare technology industry's historical shortcomings. Alice stressed the need for a universal standard and the challenges posed by unstructured data. She discussed how regulations accelerated data exchange but also emphasized the significance of data stewardship and accountability in healthcare technology.This dynamic conversation encapsulated these crucial healthcare technology themes, painting a vivid picture of an industry undergoing unprecedented transformation. As Ken, Jocelyn, and Alice shared their insights, they collectively illuminated a path forward—one where interoperability, data quality, AI and consent management converge to progress healthcare towards a more patient-centered approach.  The podcast culminated with a valuable reminder from Alice and Jocelyn for healthcare technology professionals to actively engage in industry workgroups and partake in the ongoing transformation of healthcare data sharing and interoperability. They championed a collaborative approach, where both business and IT partners collaborate effectively to navigate the evolving healthcare technology landscape.In closing, Ken expressed his gratitude to his guests, Jocelyn Keegan and Alice O'Carroll, for their passionate insights and engagement in the healthcare technology discussion. He also extended his thanks to the audience for tuning in and invited them to stay updated with future podcast episodes across various platforms as the dynamic field of health IT and healthcare technology continues to evolve.    

Dr. George Rogu is an accomplished pediatrician who has stood at the forefront of providing advanced pediatric care on Long Island. Throughout his distinguished career, Dr. Rogu has created cutting-edge programs that utilize technology to deliver patients the latest in care and medical information. He specializes in guiding small private practices through transformations, focusing on innovation and updating services to provide advanced medical care.As CEO and Managing Partner for RBK Pediatrics & Urgent Care, Dr. Rogu acquired a 58-year-old practice and turned it into the most technologically advanced private pediatric practice on Long Island.While leading RBK Pediatrics & Urgent Care, Dr. Rogu spearheaded several initiatives, such as introducing a Pediatric Chronic Care Program encompassing a Pediatric Obesity Program, Asthma Care, an ADHD Evaluation and Management Program, and an International Adoption Program. This program provides service to approximately 1,000 patients per year. On the practice management side, Dr. Rogu has led numerous projects to utilize technology to provide more efficient and cost-effective healthcare. Specifically, he initiated and oversaw the transition to a Pediatric Specific Electronic Health Record (EHR) in 2008 that was cost-effective, user-friendly, and fit the practice's unique needs. In addition, he directed the Meaningful Use program as Lead Physician. Dr. Rogu drove the acquisition and merger with other methods around Long Island, managing administrative details, including negotiating insurance contracts, handling staffing, and merging office cultures. He also oversees physicians and cases for Pediatric Inpatients at three local hospitals as part of the Pediatric Inpatient Hospital Program.He is also the Founder and President of a Pediatric Specific Clinically Integrated Network called “The Independent Pediatric Collaborative of Long Island.”Currently, in the Digital Healthcare space, he is a Co-Host of  “The Pediatric Lounge”   Podcast; it is a safe space where we take people behind the door of the Physician's Lounge to get a deeper insight into just what docs are talking about today, from the clinically profound to the wonderfully routine…and everything in between. Support the show

Before taking responsibility for operational performance of Booz Allen Hamilton – the $9+ billion technology and consulting leader with 32,000+ employees worldwide – Kristine Martin Anderson built a career pioneering healthcare IT. Most notably, she spent nearly 14 years at an early innovator in the space, CareScience, where she helped advance work in quality measurement before overseeing the launch of the nation's first web-based clinical decision support system for hospitals, and the nation's first health information exchange, among other groundbreaking initiatives.After CareScience, Kristine joined Booz Allen in 2006 to help grow, and ultimately run, the firm's healthcare business. Kristine later became president of the firm's civilian sector and ultimately ascended to her current role as chief operating officer. Nearly all of Booz Allen's business is through government contracts, and its clients include all of the cabinet-level departments of the U.S. federal government, from defense and homeland security, to transportation and public health.Kristine's extensive work with the government and experiences pioneering healthcare IT put her in a unique position to navigate the complex demands of the healthcare industry. She shared some of her knowledge with Keith Figlioli in this episode of Healthcare is Hard, where they discussed topics including:Advice for winning government contracts. Kristine's biggest advice for organizations looking to drive healthcare innovation through government contracts is that it's not a good side gig. She says working with the government is a commitment because it's a customer with long sales cycles, unique requirements and a need for transparency. But it's also a big customer, which she says has the best missions and really important tasks that have to get done.How AI adoption will be slow and uneven. Kristine shares the industry's excitement for artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential to transform healthcare, but offers words of caution around expectations for rapid, widespread adoption. She points to the example of using AI to analyze radiology images – one of the first applications of AI in healthcare – and the fact that it has still only reached 2% of all images. She also predicts and discusses why government policy makers will be more reactive than proactive when it comes to regulating AI innovation.The state of quality measurement. “Culture is eating strategy for lunch in the measurement world,” according to Kristine. She says quality measurement has lost its way as an unintentional consequence of Meaningful Use and the movement towards linking quality measures to health IT. She laments how meaningful data still isn't available to the public in a way that can help inform personal healthcare decisions and says reporting has become more about getting government incentive for healthcare organizations.Prospects for entrepreneurs. The need for innovation in healthcare is bigger than it has ever been before, and Kristine is optimistic about the ability to empower startups and the people behind them to change the world. Her advice for entrepreneurs is to closely monitor the issues that will affect adoption. She points out how the best ideas don't always prevail and says that focusing on levers for adoption is just as important as an innovation itself.To hear Keith and Kristine talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders.

Earning a Presidential Management Fellowship after law school gave Kristen McGovern firsthand experience working inside many of the agencies and offices that drive U.S. healthcare policy. Over a two year period with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) she worked at organizations including the National Cancer Institute and the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA). She eventually landed at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) just as the HITECH Act was signed into law in 2009, dedicating nearly $30 billion to modernizing healthcare IT.As the executive office that oversees the federal budget and federal agencies, Kristen worked closely with leadership at OMB and HHS as they deployed funding for Meaningful Use and other programs catalyzed by the landmark legislation.In 2010, around the same time the Affordable Care Act was passed into law, Kristen was recruited by Farzad Mostashari (a previous guest on the Healthcare is Hard podcast) and became chief of staff at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC).These experiences launched a career that has put Kristen at the forefront of federal healthcare policy and politics. She is currently partner at Sirona Strategies, a healthcare consulting firm she co-founded to advise organizations – from startups to the Fortune 500 – on healthcare policy.Some of the topics Kristen talked to Keith Figlioli about on this episode of the Healthcare is Hard podcast include:A pulse check on DC. Kristen shared insight into the offices and agencies shaping the healthcare industry from inside the beltway. For example, she talked about the current state of the Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation (CMMI), the activity she says is happening “below the surface” and how the organization is at an inflection point after more than a decade testing payment and delivery system models.The evolution of Meaningful Use. Looking back at her time at ONC, Kristen talks about the initial goals of encouraging EHR adoption to unlock insight from paper records that were sitting in filing cabinets. She talks about progress the industry has made and the current goals of making sure organizations can access and use data in new and innovative ways. In other words, ensuring we haven't just created electronic filing cabinets.The size and scope of AI Policy. With all the enthusiasm about artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, Kristen talks about the process of putting guardrails around this powerful technology. She says it will require a large-scale collaborative effort across HHS and other government agencies, and believes it will ultimately be an even bigger undertaking than Meaningful Use.Policy advice for startups. As a highly regulated industry, every organization that touches healthcare needs to be aware of the impact current and future policy decisions could have on their business. Kristen shared advice about how she helps startups think through the impact of policy decisions, and when and how to embed policy experts in a business.To hear Keith and Kristen talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders.

About Kevin Larsen:Dr. Kevin Larsen is the Senior Vice President, of Clinical Innovation of Translation at Optum. Kevin's role is to provide clinical leadership and a clinical voice to Optum Center for Advanced Clinical Solutions. He leads the clinical team in building and deploying provider enablement technologies, including clinical decision support integrated through electronic health records. Previously he was at OptumLabs where he supported the design and implementation of innovative research, analytics, and evidence-based translation programs in diverse areas across our portfolio and was a primary clinical lead in support of the Optum Enterprise strategy.Kevin is an internist and medical informaticist who started his career at Hennepin County Medical Center In Minneapolis where he had a variety of executive and clinical leadership roles. He has worked in academic, hospital, and government settings, focusing on innovation through data and analytics, research, policy, and developing/implementing innovative programs at scale.He joined Optum from the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), where most recently he has been Senior Health IT Advisor at the office of the Chief TechnologyOfficer. Kevin led the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) strategic planning and transformation team. In that role, he convened stakeholders across CMS and its partners to develop strategies and execute enterprise program improvements. He consulted on health IT policy, standards, and project execution for numerous Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) models, such as Million Hearts, Oncology Bundle, State Innovation Models, and Accountable Health Communities. He started his Washington D.C. career at the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) as the Medical Director of Meaningful Use where he led ONCs work on quality policy, measurement, and improvement, including clinical decision support and social determinants of health.Earlier, Kevin was CMIO and Associate Medical Director of Hennepin Health System. He was an associate professor of medicine at the University of Minnesota where his research included healthcare financing for people living in poverty, computer systems Things You'll Learn:If patients have enough support, they will care for their health. Chronic disease patients should be able to manage their conditions throughout their lives. Technology can help minimize some clinical processes. Clinical Decision Support is a process that helps doctors make the best decisions after being well-informed. What many existing solutions lack are the means to scale. Healthcare should start reversing the inward-thinking mindset. Communities often have solutions on the ground that healthcare companies are trying to create. Many organizations are now asking their employees and their patients about social determinants of health. Resources:Connect with and follow Kevin on LinkedIn.Follow Optum on LinkedIn.Discover the Optum Website.Email Kevin directly at Kevin.Larsen@optum.com

Data enablement has the power to transform American Healthcare. It can foster trust between patients and clinicians and make healthcare more accessible, affordable and equitable. This future of an open and connected health ecosystem may seem elusive, but it's not out of reach. Technology will not hold us back — instead our biggest challenge will be creating a value-based model of care where new innovations can thrive.   This week we our joined by Dr. David Feinberg, the Chairman of Oracle Health. Dr. Feinberg is committed to advancing thought leadership and strategy related to unleashing the healing power of data through an open and connected healthcare ecosystem.  Previously Dr. Feinberg served as president and CEO of Cerner, now Oracle Health, where he led teams delivering tools and technology to improve the patient and caregiver experience. He has also served as the VP of Google Health, and he served as the President and CEO of Geisinger where he led a complex turnaround and guided Geisinger's transition to value-based care.  Episode Bookmarks: 01:30 Introduction to Dr. David Feinberg, Chairman of Oracle Health. 02:45 The massive generation of data by humankind in the modern day (projected to be 175 Zettabytes by 2025). 03:45 Approximately 80% of healthcare data today is unstructured. 04:30 People are dying unnecessarily and suffering poor outcomes despite the amount of data generated by the healthcare system. 05:30 "Healthcare fundamentally is people caring for people. Data is secondary; the primary aspect of healthcare is trust.” 06:30 Making Electronic Health Records usable is of paramount importance (PCPs Need 27 Hours a Day to Do Their Best Work!) 07:00 Digitizing the medical record has made clinical workflows humanly impossible and compromises trust. 07:30 The vision for an open and connected health data ecosystem. 08:45 The Meaningful Use program did nothing for EHR usability (an example of the Gartner Hype Cycle). 10:00 Dr. Feinberg's clinical and executive leadership background provided a great lesson in technology adoption. 11:00 Can there be a high level of technology adoption in healthcare like Google dominates the non-healthcare marketplace? 12:30 We have solved for interoperability, but healthcare lacks a level of usability to allow a true longitudinal health record. 14:00 Motivating doctors for high performance ultimately comes down to the data scorecard. 15:00 Knowing the game (volume vs. value) and the promise of data enablement in value-based care. 16:00 The 21st Century Cures Act and the path forward in interoperability. 17:00 Can scalable FHIR-based interoperability and Open APIs eventually reach critical mass in the U.S. to improve population health? 19:45 Dr. Feinberg describes the two points of failure by technology companies trying to disrupt the healthcare ecosystem. 20:30 How Oracle Cerner is designing an intelligent, cloud-enabled platform to change healthcare for the better. 22:00 An example of disruption with Internet Banking and how application of those principles could change the healthcare system. 23:45 Digitization of medical records was a requisite first step. 24:00 Integration and normalization of disparate data sets provides an opportunity to create data intelligence. 25:00 How Larry Ellison's impatience for healthcare disruption clashes with the realities of the industry. 26:30 Recognizing the "life and death" aspects of healthcare transformation. 27:00 Making incremental progress with a digitized medical record…and then COVID happens to accelerate value-based care! 29:00 Workforce burnout and EHR usability - “Simplicity is the ultimate art of sophistication.” 30:00 “Value-based care is ultimately the best way to address the root cause of burnout in the workforce.” 30:45 The need for UX in the design of EHR applications to optimize physician workflow. 31:30 Results in usability redesign — ex: 19% reduction in nursing time at the terminal,

Zafar Chaudry, SVP and Chief Digital & Information Officer at Seattle Children's, illuminates how data can improve the quality of care and reduce inequitable disparities in patient outcomes.

In this week's episode of HealthCare Trailblazers, we touch on the following topics with our guest Henry Denis: 1. Wall street vs healthcare 2. Why Sharing patient health records is still so inefficient3. Who should be the owner of patient health records4. Why value-based care is a scary term for some5. Why direct contracting will be the futureAbout Henry Henry Is the CEO of Medical Informatix. He has three decades of experience in information technology infrastructure and strategy. Henry is a recognized industry leader in the design and implementation of digital systems to optimize participation in Meaningful Use, PQRS, VBM, PCMH, DSRIP, MACRA, MIPS, and other value-based reimbursement models. His company Medical Informatix has developed a platform that allows Doctors to practice medicine while they handle the analytics and processes required to succeed in Quality and Value-Based Programs. Learn more about Previva Health Group:Website: https://previva.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/previva-health-group/Learn more about Henry Denis:https://www.linkedin.com/in/henry-denis-b534571/

Robin Wiener is a nationally recognised leader and change agent in healthcare IT and patient engagement. She brings more than 20 years of experience in business development, management and product strategy to her position as president and founding partner of Get Real Health. Ms. Wiener leads business development and marketing efforts for Get Real Health, leveraging her outstanding people skills and a large network of contacts to identify opportunities and close sales. She also cultivates the company's growing list of strategic partnerships around the world. Ms. Wiener has an innate knack for identifying the skill sets integral to a successful team. Her corporate leadership abilities are evidenced by Get Real Health's impressive employee retention rate and the staff's unwavering commitment to the company's success.   In our conversation, we talk about Get Real Health's digital front door, putting people first in healthcare and business, and finding your path. Show Notes: https://steampoweredshow.com/shows/robin-wiener [00:01:14] Robin's journey from fashion to health IT [00:01:38] A love for bringing the right people together and the shift to human resources in tech. [00:02:57] Human resources from a technical engineering perspective in the dot-com era. [00:04:33] Pivoting out of the dot-com crash. [00:05:47] The importance of the people side of business and tech. Empower and respect your people. [00:10:26] The origins of Get Real Health and their digital front door. [00:11:18] Building an app that connected to Microsoft HealthVault. [00:11:49] Hurricane Katrina was the impetus for change in health record management. [00:13:49] Building the American Heart Association and the American Cancer Society a patient portal and realising there is a product there. [00:17:28] Incorporating a digital front door for integrated patient services. [00:18:57] Overcoming the challenges of integration with disparate systems and standardisation practices. [00:19:52] FHIR standard and Meaningful Use. [00:21:14] Standardisation facilitates AI on the data (with patient-controlled consent) which allows patients who wouldn't otherwise have access to participate in clinical studies to be considered. [00:22:16] Naturally facilitating telehealth during COVID providing access to healthcare providers and providers access to health records for treatment. [00:22:42] The portability of the platform internationally. [00:22:55] Standards and many of the large EMR companies being multinational helps. [00:25:27] My Health Record (Australia). [00:26:37] Digital health systems should be patient-focussed. It should be innovative but uncomplicated. [00:27:56] Working with Telstra Health (Australia) and Spark Health (NZ). [00:29:39] Communicating safety and privacy for health records, keeping public trust. [00:30:48] Granular patient-controlled consent and supporting irregularties such as region-based age of majority and emergency access. [00:35:41] Alerts for physical and mental health crises. [00:36:48] It's not just information, it's tools that empower you to be able to manage your personal health. [00:37:47] Resources to manage your own healthcare allows for timely care and early intervention. [00:40:34] We're learning that telehealth and tools that facilitate it works. [00:42:17] Geographic limitations to the platform. Legal and privacy issues. [00:45:06] How granular we can get with access control. [00:48:42] Robin's experiences with a strong support network and her passion for helping people achieve their potential. [00:51:51] Strategies to stay the course when following your path. [00:59:59] Bonus Question 1: What hobby or interest do you have that is most unrelated to your field of work? [01:00:47] Robin's early theatre and performance experience. [01:02:37] Bonus Question 2: Which childhood book holds the strongest memories for you? [01:05:14] Bonus Question 3: What advice you would give someone who wants to do what you do? Or what advice should they ignore? [01:05:21] As a leader you need to know the pieces that make up the puzzle. [01:06:43] Build the team around you. [01:08:39] 'It's not a sprint, it's a journey.' [01:10:03] On grit and moxie. [01:12:20] On balancing operational and strategic skills. [01:14:31] Don't forget the users and the human side of your business. [01:16:06] The full STEAM of healthcare.  Connect with STEAM Powered: Website | YouTube | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | Patreon | Ko-Fi

As a self-described latchkey kid growing up in Los Angeles, Dr. John Halamka says riding his bike to Raytheon, Hughes Aircraft and Aerojet – and pulling integrated circuits and manuals from their dumpsters to learn how they worked – lured him into the world of technology. Not long after, he started developing his first healthcare-related IT system, which he sold to UCLA when he was 14.Those experiences kicked-off a career where Dr. Halamka has worked at the intersection of technology and healthcare for five decades. Trained in emergency medicine and medical informatics, Dr. Halamka has served in many roles, including chief information officer at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for more than 20 years, where he oversaw digital health relationships with industry, academia, and governments worldwide. As the International Healthcare Innovation Professor at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Halamka helped the George W. Bush administration, Obama administration, and governments around the world plan their health care information strategies.In his current role as president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, Dr. Halamka leads a portfolio of platform businesses focused on transforming health care by leveraging artificial intelligence, connected health care devices and a network of trusted partners.In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Dr. Halamka shares his perspective on the evolution of digital health and where the industry is headed through an in-depth conversation with Keith Figlioli. The topics they cover include:Mayo's platform play. As president of the Mayo Clinic Platform, Dr. Halamka spends time explaining the organization's view about what constitutes a platform and why it's important. He describes it as an ecosystem that's built to foster innovation at an extraordinarily fast pace. He contrasts the approach to other healthcare organizations where building collaboration is hard, and discusses how the Mayo Clinic Platform makes it easy for innovators to find mentors, access millions of de-identified patient records to test new technology, tap into thousands of clinical experts to address a problem, and so much more.The arc of healthcare IT. Dr. Halamka explains innovation in digital health – especially through the implementation of Meaningful Use over the past decade – with a quote from Winston Churchill: “Americans will always do the right thing. After they've tried everything else.” While it took a long time to arrive, he does not lament the journey and expresses optimism for the current state and future of digital health.Guardrails for AI and ML. Much like Google Cloud's Aashima Gupta described in a past Healthcare is Hard episode, Dr. Halamka talks about the need for a standard set of metrics to measure the performance of AI models in healthcare. He views his career as seven or eight distinct periods of achievement including events like standardizing vocabularies or moving to APIs, and believes the next period will be about creating the guidelines, guardrails and transparency for machine learning in healthcare, and using it ubiquitously across the globe. Convergence of AI and ML models. Dr. Halamka says he is seeing an amazing array of startup activity creating models for niche purposes on multimodal data. He says there will be a huge number of model providers and talks about the importance of platform players being able to bring them together. He says data liquidity and a huge ecosystem of players coming together will be revolutionary in the ability for people to navigate their health care.To hear Dr. Halamka and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders.

The healthcare technology space continues to evolve and improve around the globe. In this week's episode of Clean Talk podcast, Julio Lainez, Account manager at Vision21 Solutions joins us to reveal what he is doing to improve the global healthcare community. Join us to gain insight on a range of topics including:- Julio's Background and what lead to his current role- His role at Vision 21- How his skills have helped him break into the global healthcare market- Bringing manufacturer opportunities to other countries- His role with HIMSS- What is Meaningful Use and where did it derive from- What to expect in the future of healthcare technologies across Latin America and other countriesJulio has over 15 years of experience in the technology industry with an unparalleled passion for customer's success. The variety of leadership roles he has had have expanded his reach across the US, Canada, Puerto Rico and Latin America. He combines his OEM relationships and unique solution-based skills in Healthcare and Enterprise business industries for Network and customized IT solutions. In his free time, he enjoys traveling and spending time with his two daughters.Vision21 Solutions Website: https://vision21.com/Be a Member of Our Community: https://cleantalk.onlineFind Out More Information: https://cleantalk.tvLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/9094477/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SealShieldTwitter: https://twitter.com/SealShieldInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/sealshield/

In this episode of AHLA's monthly series on fraud and abuse issues, Matthew Wetzel, Partner, Goodwin Procter, speaks to Chris Sabis, who heads the Government Compliance & Investigations Group at Sherrard Roe Voigt & Harbison PLC, about recent developments in the government's approach to electronic health records (EHRs). They discuss what constitutes EHR fraud, the concept of Meaningful Use, the theories that the government uses to pursue fraud in the EHR space, and what general counsel and compliance officers should be considering when updating their organizations' EHR systems. From AHLA's Fraud and Abuse Practice Group. Sponsored by BRG.

March 15: Today on TownHall, https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-oliver-md-1b1b6017/ (Brett Oliver), Family physician and Chief Medical Information Officer at https://www.baptisthealth.com/ (Baptist Health) interviews https://www.linkedin.com/in/aaronmiri/?trk=public_profile_browsemap (Aaron Miri), SVP, Chief Digital & Information Officer at https://www.baptistjax.com/ (Baptist Health Jacksonville). What are the most exciting healthcare technologies out there right now? Everybody is doing retail medicine, so how do you make a patient feel special instead of one of millions? Does your organization have a blocking and tackling approach? Do they focus on talent and leadership development? How do technologists put solutions out there that make sense and transact the business in a safe, secure and friendly manner? How do you convince clinicians to change a workflow with a new technology that you're convinced will make a difference for them?

This summer I sat down with one of the most outspoken and passionate guests I have ever hosted at Alloutcoach and recorded a truly "AllOut", candid and colorful conversation that will leave you with calls to action to use Data and Technology not to only Count but to Connect in Healthcare. Dr. Warren Wexelman, a cardiologist, Associate Chief Medical Officer at Maimonides Hospital, renowned global keynote speaker, and lecturer addresses the latest trends in 1) virtual healthcare & telehealth and 2) interactions of healthcare professionals with pharma, biotech, and medical device companies to provide hands-on, real world case studies and recommendations to improve healthcare quality. 2:36 – Up to $250 billion could be shifted towards virtual healthcare in the future 2:45 – Only 1% of primary care visits in Medicare were virtual as of January 2020, which rose to 50% of all Medicare Patients by April 2020 10:08 – "Necessity is the mother of all invention" – Sir Isaac Newton case 10:56 – Doctor Patient Relationship is the single most important piece of healthcare 11:41 – Doctors check the pulse not to count the beats but to connect and touch the patient 12:38 – Since 1968, when Medicare first started in the U.S., physicians could speak to patients and bill for their time but it's never used because it is not reimbursed 13:40 – Two of Dr. Wexelman's patients died at home due to non-COVID cardiac reasons because they were afraid to seek healthcare 16:06 – New incentives for healthcare providers to use telehealth but the impact on the quality of care is not clear 16:13 – Many patients still have low access to technology or virtual care in certain areas 18:19 – Dr. Wexelman's software company – AlphaMED Disease Management Systems, alphameddms.com 20:05 – Many physicians still not advanced in their use of technology 21:08 - Are the structures in place for physicians to be incentivized sufficiently to adopt telehealth? 22:07 – Obama administration brought upon “Meaningful Use” of electronic health records 23:02 – Physicians hate using their electronic healthcare records, which take them 3x the time needed to see a patient 23:57 – Electronic Healthcare Records were never designed to be shared everywhere 27:01 – Message to the government: make digital health devices available for home use, incentivize the healthcare providers 28:11 - Is Telepharmacy a possibility in our healthcare system? 29:29 – What should physicians be forced to only submit a prescription via a computer rather than the phone? 30:36 – Pharmaceutical Industry's Adoption of Digital Health Technology 31:25 – How physicians engage virtually with pharma or med devices 31:56 – Why Physicians use Social Media – data from Scranton University 32:22 – How physicians shifted to attending virtual scientific conferences 33:41 – Medical Science Liaison (MSL) Society survey – how important is it to stay connected with MSLs during the pandemic? 34:32 – How frequently do physicians prefer to communicate with an MSL? 35:50 – Dr. Wexelman: "The term [pharma] has become a dirty word with healthcare providers, and everyone in the healthcare system to blame!" 36:26 – Where would we be without pharma today? 40:06 – Physicians in large healthcare systems not allowed to see pharma reps - Dr. Wexelman's “secure samples” software program 41:13 – Keeping information from physicians who “serve” is a “disservice” 41:48 – Physicians need to know information BEFORE it is published 42:18 – Pacemaker sales rep case study 45:51 – Medical Affairs and Sales partners in the Continuum of Healthcare 46:52 – Why restrict “samples”? particularly for some life-saving medications 47:06 – Drug prices - there should never be a question “do I take my diabetes medication or do I eat today?” 48:35 – It is not about the number of years of experience in healthcare or any other field, but about how you utilize the experience, or technology 50:14 – Dr. Wexelman referencing the Hippocratic Oath and what it means to him! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/alloutcoach/support

Welcome back SMASHers to a new episode with Bob, Jonny B Lightning and Danny from SOHO where the tantalytical topic of "Healthcare Payment Models" is poked, prodded, and interrogated for life, liberty, and the success of modern healthcare! Which way should we go? Left or Right? Value Based or Alternative? Meaningful Use or Quality? As we round the wagons and spin the wagon's wheel of fortune where do you stand on this topic? Ask your physician what they prefer and maybe you'll get to watch a great show while you listen to the SMASHit podcast. Join the conversation and reach out and touch us at www.smashithealthcare.com... mic drop!

Investments in digital health hit an all-time high in 2020, only to surpass the new record within the first six month of 2021. Needless to say, there's never been more attention placed on digital health innovation. But it makes for a crowded market, putting providers and health system CIOs in a challenging position where it's impossible to vet the wave of new technologies and determine what will really help reduce costs and improve care. For 25 years, KLAS has helped providers navigate the increasingly complex healthcare IT landscape through research that's focused on amplifying their voice in the market. With a rigorous process of collecting and assembling feedback from the people who actually use healthcare technology, KLAS forces technology vendors to face, act on, and improve from critical feedback, and gives providers a venue to seek advice from their peers.In this episode of Healthcare is Hard: A Podcast for Insiders, Keith Figlioli talks to the CEO and co-founder of KLAS, Adam Gale. They discuss his firm's role in the digital health industry over more than two decades, and touch on topics important for providers, vendors, investors and others playing a role in the industry's future. They cover a number of issues, such as: The beginning of health tech innovation. KLAS was established at what might feel like the beginning of digital health innovation – even before Meaningful Use was implemented – but once again Adam feels like things are just getting started. He talks about being in the right place, at the right time, to be a trusted voice during the nationwide rollout of electronic health records, and the uncertainty KLAS felt for the future once EHRs were in place. But he also talks about how being at the front edge of technology right now reminds him of those early days, and the limitless possibilities that lie ahead.Forcing change through public policy or private markets. Touching on a theme from the last Healthcare Is Hard podcast with ONC's Steven Posnack, Keith and Adam discuss the levers for implementing change in healthcare IT. Adam shares a conversation he once had with Secretary for Health and Human Services, Mike Leavitt, where they both expressed envy for the other's ability to help implement change. While Adam pictured government as a body capable of setting the course, Secretary Leavitt revealed how difficult this actually is. A slight move in any direction, according to Leavitt, creates waves of pushback from multiple angles. But as a private organization with influence over both vendors and providers, KLAS is in a unique position to drive change and improvements across the industry.Advice for entrepreneurs. Adam shares insights throughout the interview that are valuable for digital health startups and entrepreneurs, while providing direct advice at times too. For example, he talks about the strategic importance for early-stage companies to invest in their first customer relationships to develop one or two health system customers that will become good references. He says this might be a slower path to success, but stresses the power that word-of-mouth has in the healthcare industry and how this approach builds real value.To hear Adam and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.

The accelerated pace of innovation in digital health, record-breaking investments in the sector and even some of the technology developed to navigate the pandemic wouldn't have been possible without groundwork laid by The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC). And there's probably no one who understands ONC's past, present and future role better than Steve Posnack.Steve is a fixture at ONC, joining a year after it was formed in 2004 and serving for the past 16 years in various capacities through four administrations. Since 2019, Steve has served as Deputy National Coordinator, playing an integral role in policy development, technology initiatives and investments, budget prioritization and industry-wide coordination.In this episode of Healthcare is Hard, Steve gives a background and history of ONC, explaining how it fits into the Department of Health and Human Services and the overall role it plays in the federal government. He shares insights that anyone in the healthcare innovation ecosystem should understand and his conversation with Keith Figlioli covers a number of topics including:Wins and regrets of ONC. As someone who has been at ONC for nearly its entire history, Steve has a rare vantagepoint to reflect on initiatives that have gone smoothly and lessons-learned for those that haven't. For example, he discusses successes and challenges of Meaningful Use, recognizing its imperfections, but all the innovation that it made possible as well.Cybersecurity in healthcare. Steve entered ONC after earning a dual master's degree in cybersecurity and health policy from Johns Hopkins University, giving him a unique skillset to address the security issues with healthcare IT that are becoming increasingly more critical. He talks about the need for better cyber hygiene industry-wide and shares thoughts about meeting that goal. But he doesn't predict any federal mandates for security in the near future.Improving data quality. According to Steve, poor data quality is a sore point for public health professionals and an area where the private sector can help in order to benefit everyone. He says the people tasked with tracking and consolidating data spend precious time doing “data detective work,” and it's been especially challenging through the pandemic. This requires looking upstream to know where data is coming from and where it's going to figure out how gaps occur and how to address them.The future role for ONC. Taking all of ONC's accomplishments into account, Keith and Steve discuss if there's more work to be done, or if the public sector should start taking over. From Steve's perspective, there's a lot for the private sector to build on, but he also says there's a lot the industry is still asking ONC to push forward. As just two examples, he talks about how work around the social determinants of health and the convergence of clinical and research operations still need broader coordination.To hear Steve and Keith talk about these topics and more, listen to this episode of Healthcare is Hard.

The HITECH Act, part of the broad American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, ushered in major changes for health care's information and informatics landscape. The legislation may best be known for "meaningful use" requirements attached to hospital and/or physician funding to support the adoption of electronic health records (EHRs).The law also greatly boosted health information exchanges, or networks that share clinical information across different health care settings.On today's episode of A Health Podyssey, Dr. Julia Adler-Milstein, director of the Center for Clinical Informatics and Improvement Research at the University of California San Francisco, joins Health Affairs Editor-in-Chief Alan Weil to discuss a survey of health information exchange organizations she and colleagues published in the May 2021 issue of Health Affairs. The survey reveals a level of maturity in the field of health information exchange, but a few critical issues continue to threaten the ability to achieve the potential and promise of EHRs. Listen to Alan Weil interview Julia Adler-Milstein on the evolution of health information exchange organizations, TEFCA, and health data governance.Subscribe: RSS | Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Podcasts

Whether you have reached your limit as a coach working for themselves or looking towards the future growth and scale of your business, hiring is an obvious essential part of growth but can done wrong if you're not careful. Our hiring process has evolved over the years and we made our fair share of mistakes in that department. In this episode,  we'll share what we do now, who your first hire should be, and where to hire from there.   Time Stamps:   (0:40) Let’s Talk Hiring (1:40) Our Hiring Process Out of the Gate (2:57) Who to Hire in Your Business (5:22) E-Myth Revisited (7:50) “I Can’t Afford to Outsource” (10:35) Outsourcing Sales (11:41) Two Types of Hires (15:06) Partners and Equity (19:30) Meaningful Use (25:06) Rate and Reviews ------------ FREE Copy MINI course with our TOP 10 Organic post templates. Giving you the exact templates and also teaching you the WHY behind the copywriting magic! https://www.impactfitnesscoachingacademy.com/OrganicFitnessPosts ------------ IFCA 6.0 Is OFFICIALLY CLOSED!   Below are FREE ways to grow your business in the meantime before our next round opens up.   If you want to see exactly how we’ve been able to help over 458 Online coaches sign high paying clients, on-demand, without using cold DMs, paid ads, or even a website?    We’re offering a FREE training below, showing you how the B.R.I.C.K.S method works, and how you can crush it this year as an online coach, even if you have little, to no business experience.    https://www.impactfitnesscoachingacademy.com/FreeTraining ------------ Make sure to follow the IFCA Instagram Page for daily content to help you:  ✅  Start, and Grow Your Online Fitness Coaching Offer  ✅  Lead Gen Secrets  ✅  Mindset Tools  ✅  Content Tips  ✅  Productivity Tools and Systems  ✅  Sales and Marketing Strategies    ------> Follow @ImpactFitnessCoachingAcademy  ------------- FREE Content Planner for Online Coaches! Hundreds of Prompts, Templates, and Systems to CRUSH THE CONTENT GAME   https://ifca.kartra.com/page/ContentCalendar ------------- DON’T FORGET TO JOIN OUR COMMUNITY FOR ONLINE COACHES LOOKING TO LEARN, SCALE, AND MAKE AN IMPACT IN FITNESS   Join the Free IFCA Community for Coaches who want to change lives ------------- Please make sure to follow Erin at @erindimondfitness, Jordan at @duggaestetics, and the official Fit Biz Podcast page @the_fitbiz_podcast.   Subscribe & Review in iTunes   Are you subscribed to our podcast? If you’re not, we encourage you to do that today. We don’t want you to miss out on any episode. Click here to subscribe in iTunes!   If you’re a true badass, we’d be super grateful if you left us a review over on iTunes, too. Those reviews help us climb the podcast ranks and extend our listenership and reach. Just click here to review, select “Ratings and Reviews” and “Write a Review” and let us know what your favorite episode was. 

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January 29, 2021: Do you have an efficient workflow mindset? Do you get excited by the words ontology, hierarchy, indexing and usability? Dirk Stanley, MD CMIO shares his top 15 signs that you may work in clinical informatics. What makes a good clinical informaticist? Have we fine tuned the usability of technology? What kind of impact do the information blocking rules and API rules have on interoperability? How do you ensure that projects are meeting the financial return goals for your organization? What does it mean to prevent medication errors? What does it mean to make patients happier with the way they get their results? Why is order set design so hard? And at bedtime, are your kids protesting that they’re tired of discussing project intake and change management and they just want to go to sleep?Key Points:Your IT friends think you are ‘too clinical’, and your clinical friends think you are ‘too IT’. [00:04:45] You’ve successfully used the words “ontology”, “hierarchy”, “indexing”, or “usability” in a Scrabble game. [00:07:40] In your spare time, you write poetry about Interoperability and Meaningful Use. [00:08:05] You keep looking for ways to optimize the workflow for walking your dog. [00:10:05] You get panic attacks every time you hear the phrase, “new Federal regulations”. [00:15:50] When bringing your car for routine maintenance, you ask the mechanic about the “ROI” and “TCO” of your “future state”. [00:20:50] Your friends stage an intervention after you start inviting them to ‘flowcharting parties’. [00:23:30] At bedtime, your kids protest : “We’re tired of discussing project intake and change management, can we just go to sleep?” [00:24:20] Your best friend falls asleep on the phone, while you rant about the importance of maintaining a written home glossary for ‘good terminology management and data standards’. Instead of asking your kids to do their chores, you ‘look for opportunities to better engage family stakeholders in household incentive-based productivity efforts.’ You actually enjoy debating whether your title should be “Clinical Informaticist” or “Clinical Informatician” You’ve wondered how to increase global awareness about the complexity of order set design. [00:30:15] Your retirement planner asks you, “Are you SURE you want to do this?” [00:34:35]You nod and smile graciously every time someone asks you, “You work in IT, right? Isn’t that fun, just working with computers all day?” [00:39:25] You’ve spent countless holiday gatherings trying to explain ‘Clinical Informatics’ to your in-laws. [00:39:55] Dirk Stanley Twitter Dirk Stanley websiteHealthcare IT: Top 15 Signs You May Work in Clinical Informatics

In this episode of the EG Property Podcast EG editor Samantha McClary is in conversation with Shaftesbury chief executive Brian Bickell. The pair talk about the importance of landlord and tenant relationships and the role that real estate has to play in helping to amplify the voices of those that often don’t get heard or seen. As part of Black History Month, Shaftesbury has teamed up with My Runway Group, a youth empowerment organisation dedicated to inspiring and developing young black creatives, to open 21 Youth Street. The pop-up store on Carnaby Street is open until the end of October and will feature more than 50 black owned businesses, providing a platform for them to showcase their brands. It is an initiative that Bickell is really proud of and one way that he thinks real estate can do its bit. Vacant stores, after all, are not that hard to come by right now,  so why not utilise them to do some good? But before you dive in to the podcast. The usual warning. This was recorded over Teams so the sound quality does sound a little echoey in places. But as always, the conversation is bang on point and really quite the delight for your ears. Enjoy.

In this episode, Dr. Gettinger shares how his professional path led him to ONC. He sheds light on the development of EHR over time, Meaningful Use and reducing clinical burden, Interoperability and Identity Management.

Fred Holliday was diagnosed with metastatic kidney cancer in 2010. At one point, his wife Regina asked to see Fred's medical records. Fred and Regina were astonished by what they experienced – how difficult, and in some cases impossible, it was to access crucial personal health data. Fred passed away in mid-June of that year, at only 39 years old. In one of his final messages, he passed a handwritten note to his wife that read, “Go After Them Regina, Love Fred.”As an artist, Regina was able to express her grief and frustration through her paintings. She was invited to create a mural on the back of a gas station on Connecticut Avenue in Washington, DC. She titled the piece “73 Cents,” because that was the quoted price per page for Fred's paper medical record. Less than a month after beginning the mural, Regina was talking to members of the US Senate and to reporters around the world. The painting, which can still be seen today in the nation's capital, helped make patient access to data become a core measure in the Meaningful Use legislation in 2010. From this tragic experience was born “The Walking Gallery.” After the mural became widely known, Regina began painting patient and family stories on the back of jackets and blazers. These stories often come from a place of deep pain; such as the death of a loved one or a chronic condition that they a patient battles every day. There are now 466 members wearing jackets painted by 52 artists. Regina herself has painted over 400 jackets! At HIMSS20 next week - and other healthcare events - you'll see members of the Walking Gallery strolling around the conference. Niko Skievaski spoke with Regina Holliday about the Walking Gallery and her ongoing quest to ensure patients and families can access data when they need it. 02:11 – Regina's shocking experience trying to access her husband's patient data 04:38 – The “horrific” conditions fueled her advocacy 06:22 – An AMA meeting attendee asks for a painted jacket – the start of the Walking Gallery 10:40 – Having access to data is empowering for the patient 18:51 – The “ripple” impact of the Walking Gallery 21:07 – How can people get a painted jacket? 23:32 – If you see someone wearing a Walking Gallery jacket, feel free to ask the person their story Regina Holliday travels the globe spreading her message of patient empowerment and inclusion in healthcare decision making. Our thanks to Regina for sharing her story on The Redox Podcast.

Join the crew for one of the best gags of the show. Yes better than everyone drinking Blue Moon. Yes, better than everyone drinking Deer Park. What bathtub? Oh, ya. Better than that. Oh god. Yes better than 101. Even better than showing up to Shadows wedding reception in Homer Simpson boxer briefs. That one is hard to beat though. We really screw with each other a lot on this show, don't we? Anyway, Ya. Best one to date. The Damok, Zyber, Cecil and Koh talk about the additions to No Man Sky, Kerbal Space Program 2, Spider-man leaving the MCU and more. Really, how do these guy like each other after all the tom foolery? Also, what the hell is Meaningful Use? Stop making up things Cecil!

21. Meaningful Use, What Does It Mean? Intended Audience: Newcomers to Pharmacy Informatics Today, we talk about the much-mentioned term of "Meaningful Use". By now, you may have heard this several times if you perused through any pharmacy informatics news. In this episode, we talk about what is Meaningful Use, its governing bodies, its pillars of health outcomes, and the different stages. For more information about Meaningful Use, visit HealthIT's page on Meaningful Use here!Follow us on social media! Twitter: @pharmacyitme Instagram: @pharmacyinformatics Website: Pharmacy IT & Me Email: pharmacyitme@gmail.com Follow Tony's personal Twitter account at @tonydaopharmd For more information on pharmacy informatics, check out some of the following useful links: ASHP's Section of Pharmacy Informatics and Technology HIMSS Pharmacy Informatics CommunityThis podcast is powered by Pinecast.

Aneesh has a rich background in health and public policy, so our discussion begins with Meaningful Use standards, MACRA and MIPS. We also talk about hot topics for the modern day EHR, like what are FHIR standards and why this industry is unlike any other today.   Produced by Dennis Yoo and Daniel Kivatinos. Hosted by Oleg Koujikov.

With the regulatory season in full swing, David Heller, corporate counsel, regulatory affairs for Greenway Health joins out podcast to discuss updates impacting your practice. We' explore the recent proposed rule for the Inpatient Prospective Payment System (IPPS), how the new rule addresses the opioid crisis through technology, how the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is redesigning “Meaningful Use,” and how reducing the administrative burden of quality measure reporting affects providers.

A new rule for Meaningful Use has come out with some adds and minuses. Venrock took the temperature of the industry. Some segments are on fire while others are getting left out in the cold. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/jeremytakesonhit/support

Every week, The American Journal of Managed Care® recaps the top managed care news of the week, and you can now listen to it on our podcast, Managed Care Cast. This week, the top managed care stories included an announcement from CMS of creating direct provider contracting, plus a broad set of proposed rules for health information technology; new recommendations to improve postpartum care; a look at future competition among specialty drugs. Read more about the stories in this podcast: CMS: "Meaningful Use" Is Out, "Interoperability" Is In: www.ajmc.com/newsroom/cms-meaningful-use-is-out-interoperability-is-in Humana Launches Bundled Payment Model to Improve Maternity Outcomes and Cost: www.ajmc.com/newsroom/humana-launches-bundled-payment-model-to-improve-maternity-outcomes-and-cost What We're Reading: VA Pick's Hearing Delayed; Hospital Profits Fall; Re-Imagining Postpartum Care: www.ajmc.com/newsroom/what-were-reading-va-picks-hearing-delayed-hospital-profits-fall-reimagining-postpartum-care ACOG Annual Clinical and Scientific Meeting: www.ajmc.com/conferences/acog-2018 Newsletter Sign-up: www.ajmc.com/email-profile Specialty Drug Pipeline Review Focuses on Competition, Cancer Drugs: www.ajmc.com/conferences/amcp-2018/specialty-drug-pipeline-review-focuses-on-competition-cancer-drugs Dr Aimee Tharaldson Discusses Key Market Trends in Specialty Pharmacy: www.ajmc.com/conferences/amcp-2018/dr-aimee-tharaldson-discusses-key-market-trends-in-specialty-pharmacy The Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy (AMCP) 2018: www.ajmc.com/conferences/amcp-2018

On this episode of the NP Dude podcast I give feedback on a newer listener’s questions about liability with respect to patients that threaten you, your ability to protect yourself and your staff, and what self protection rights you have. I also discuss your liability in treating patients who do not speak English and you […] The post Episode 127 – Liability When Threatened, Language Barriers and 1099 for Meaningful Use first appeared on The NP Dude.

Howard K. Hitzel, Psy.D., MPA is a licensed psychologist and President/CEO of BestSelf Behavioral Health, Inc. in Buffalo, New York. BestSelf Behavioral Health is a nonprofit organization which provides comprehensive, family oriented treatment and rehabilitation services to children and adults with mental illnesses and/or substance abuse disorders.BestSelf Behavioral Health is the product of a June 1, 2017 merger between the former Child and Adolescent Treatment Services and Lake Shore Behavioral Health. The organization employs more than 700 staff and has an operating budget of approximately $35 million. BestSelf Behavioral Health is the largest community-based behavioral health organization serving children and adults of all ages in Western New York and served more than 20,000 consumers in 2016.  Radhika Iyer joins us as cohost and is an EHR consultant with our sponsor organization everythingEHR. She is also spearheading our Mental Health Conference initiative with universities and colleges cross the globe. She is an attorney and seasoned healthcare consultant in healthcare law, regulatory compliance, executive oversight, project managment, Meaningful Use, and HIPAA.

Warning, the subjects of this podcast are MACRA and MIPS Government Policy Side effects of listening to this lecture include: -Boredom -Misery -Desire to quit medicine -Suicidal Ideation (Don't do it, call me first!) For Free Updates and Board Review Materials... Subscribe to our mailing list * indicates required Email Address *    

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Meaningful use stage 3 mandates that all hospitals and eligible health care professional use certified electronic health record systems in 2018, but some organizations are choosing to attest later this year. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we chat about this topic with Lori Johnson, assistant director of ambulatory quality at University of Missouri Healthcare, a comprehensive academic health center in Columbia, Missouri.

In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, we discuss the evolution of Health Care IT and interoperability on today’s program. The implementation of electronic health records became mainstream as the result of Meaningful Use standards. While most hospitals have EHRs today, not all are connecting with one another. Kathleen Sheehan is program director for meaningful use in the acute care division at Universal Health Services. UHS is one of the largest hospital management companies in the nation with more than 240 acute care hospitals, behavioral health facilities and ambulatory centers in the U.S., Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and the United Kingdom. In this episode, Kathleen shares how organizations can overcome barriers to connect disparate systems across the continuum of care.

Dr. Thomas Kelly and his business associate, Ahmed Elmanan, knew medicine and business, respectively, when they began Shore Community in December 2011. What they didn't fully appreciate were the specific challenges that come with running a healthcare business. eClinicalWorks has helped them every step of the way, from EHR/PM for documentation and workflows to RCM for billing, and a Population Health programs and measures, including PQRS, Meaningful Use, HEDIS dashboards, and much more.

Meaningful Use has been evolving since its inception in 2011, and Stage 3 is the third phase of the electronic health system incentive program. Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) is optional in 2017, but will be mandatory for all participants in 2018. In this episode of The Cerner Podcast, Sandy Summers, Director of Meaningful Use at Dignity Health, talks through preparing her organization for MU3. Dignity is the fifth largest health system in the nation, which is largely located in California, Arizona and Nevada.

There are countless times we have covered the "my EHR vendor handles HIPAA for me" misconception. The recent $155 million whistleblower lawsuit settlement between eClinicalWorks (eCW) and the government really brings it home how wrong you can be about EHR vendors. Meaningful Use attestations relied heavily on the vendors supplying proper information. eCW set up thousands of organizations to take a major hit based on the details in this case and it's settlement. Especially, when you take into account that eCW is one of the biggest EHR vendors out there. CIA of PHI is the objective of the entire Security Rule under HIPAA. Unreliable data created by an application is clearly a data Integrity issue. If you can't trust the data can you trust the system at all? If you have knowledge of this kind of stuff going on somewhere you should review it closely. It includes civil payments by developers and project managers not just the C-Suite folks involved.   For more information: HelpMeWithHIPAA.com/109

Join Dr. Korwichak as he tackles breaking news as the Department of Health and Human Services levies a $155 million fine on eClinicalWorks for failures in their EMR products.

We are all patients, but only one has come to be recognized as the face and voice for a growing community of activists encouraging the rise of participatory medicine. My guest today is a cancer survivor and patient advocate, Dave deBronkart, better known as e-Patient Dave. The evolving field of health & medicine has many challenges, but having patients pro-actively participate in their medical decision-making shouldn’t be one of them. As an industry that has historically relied on the one-sided expertise of physicians, technology and the internet have fundamentally changed the game. Patients have much greater access to information than ever before. So why then is it still so difficult to get patients to take charge of their health?  As it turns out, e-Patient Dave believes there is a science to patient engagement and behavior change that is not too different from how we describe the mechanism of action of a drug. On this episode, Dave shares what this means, what he has learned in his own personal journey on battling the ugly “C” word, what he believes is the fundamental difference between a patient and consumer, and what we need to do going forward so that patients play a more central and active role in their care. I found this conversation to be both inspirational and informative as I hope you will too. e-Patient Dave is an inspiring human being who believes the voice of the patient needs to be heard around the world. All this and more on today’s episode. Now, That’s Unusual. About “e-Patient” Dave deBronkart Dave deBronkart, better known as e-Patient Dave, was diagnosed with Stage IV kidney cancer in January of 2007. The best information gave him just 24 weeks to live, and with tumors in both lungs, several bones and muscle tissue, the prognosis was grim. Lucky enough to be connected with an academic medical center, Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess, he received superior care that leveraged the best available research. Once it was clear that he had beaten the disease, deBronkart became an activist, seeking to open the healthcare information system directly to patients on an unprecedented level, thus creating a new dynamic in how information is delivered, accessed and used by the patient. Dave is the author of the highly rated Let Patients Help: A Patient Engagement Handbook and one of the world’s leading advocates for patient engagement. After beating stage IV kidney cancer in 2007 he became a blogger, health policy advisor and international keynote speaker. He is today the best-known spokesman for the patient engagement movement, attending over 500 conferences and policy meetings in fifteen countries, including testifying in Washington for patient access to the medical record under Meaningful Use. A co-founder and chair emeritus of the Society for Participatory Medicine, e-Patient Dave has appeared in Time, U.S. News, USA Today, Wired, MIT Technology Review, and the HealthLeaders cover story “Patient of the Future.” His writings have been published in the British Medical Journal, the Society for General Internal Medicine Forum, iHealthBeat, and the conference journal of the American Society for Clinical Oncology. In 2009 HealthLeaders named him and his doctor to their annual list of “20 People Who Make Healthcare Better,” and he’s appeared on the cover of Healthcare IT News and the Australian GP magazine Good Practice. Key Interview Takeaways The ‘e’ in e-patient stands for more than just ‘electronic.’ An e-patient is equipped, engaged, empowered and enabled to ask, “How can I help?” When considering scientific literature, ask yourself, “Was this study done well?” e-Patient Dave has a great respect for the literature, but he understands that it can be unreliable. Doctors are not trained how to examine and validate clinical studies, thus patients aren’t always receiving care based on the latest information. Though we crave certainty, we live in uncertainty. Our body has just twelve ways to express a problem,

One of the most frequently used digital touchpoints by patients is the patient portal. Yet often hospitals or health systems spend little time investigating if their EMR/EHR patient portal is actually designed with the patient in mind. Hosts Reed Smith and Chris Boyer discuss how to bring UX/UI principles into the patient portal, and ask if "Meaningful Use" is either meaningful and useful from the patient perspective. They then interview expert Todd Foster about how MD Anderson Cancer Center was able to put patient's needs first in the development of their patient portal.

HIPAA, HITECH, Omnibus,  PCI regulations - these are words that can strike fear into the heart of any Behavioral Health organization.  They don't need to as we found after speaking with our guest today on Mental Health News Radio.  We sat down with Marc Haskelson, the President and CEO of Compliancy Group, to find out how easy compliance can be.Read the full article HERE.What is the difference between HIPAA and Meaningful  Use (MU) ?Do I have to attest for Meaningful Use?  What If I don’t attest?Who is considered a Vendor or a Business Associate?I am now accepting Medicare, does that put me at a higher risk for an audit just like everyone else?If I completed a Risk Assessment last year, do I have to do it again this year?Is there an insurance policy available that helps an entity with HIPAA  fines?What triggers an audit?  How do they know that they should audit you?Has your software solution ever been involved where an actual audit was being done by either CMS or OCR?If an EHR vendor or billing agency, as an example, are not following HIPAA compliance where can one go to report these actions?www.compliancygroup.comwww.thenationalcouncil.org

John Lynn is the Founder of Healthcare Scene. Healthcare Scene is a unique healthcare IT network which consists of 10 EHR and Healthcare IT blogs containing over 11,000 articles published over 11 years. Of those articles, John has written over 5500 of the articles himself. These EMR & Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 18 million times and John has over 80k social media followers & 53k email subscribers who follow him as a thought leader in the EHR & Healthcare IT space. John also led Healthcare Scene's acquisition of the leading Health IT Job board, Healthcare IT Central. This included the acquisition of Healthcare IT Today, a unique career resource for healthcare IT professionals. In 2014, John launched the first of its kind Healthcare IT Marketing and PR Conference (HITMC). Through John's leadership, this conference has become the premiere venue for health IT marketing and PR professionals to learn and network with their peers. Plus, out of this conference, John has organized a strong community of marketing and PR professionals who are working to improve healthcare. John has given keynote speeches and taught workshops across the country and around the world. John has spoken at the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Annual conference 6 times and at conferences like CES (Consumer Electronics Show), SXSW, and CTIA – The Wireless Association along with keynote speeches at EHR user conferences include Modernizing Medicine's EMA Nation and the gMed Summit to name a few of his speaking engagements. John has also taught multiple EHR workshops in Dubai with attendees from throughout the Middle East and Asia. John co-founded Influential Networks and Physia and is currently a formal advisor to three healthcare IT companies. John was previously an advisor to docBeat which was acquired by Vocera. John has 4 children and a beautiful wife that keep him grounded and remind him of what's important in life. John loves to play competitive ultimate frisbee and dance. His love of dance is reflected in his Reality TV blog network which covers shows such as Dancing with the Stars, So You Think You Can Dance, and America's Got Talent. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn. 00:00 Using Technology to Improve Healthcare as an important goal. 02:00 How Technology can enable a different trajectory. 02:40 The disconnect between Expectation and Intention. 03:15 The real, original purpose behind an EHR. 05:10 The problem with imperfect Data in EHR. 05:45 “It's really a challenge for us to update that information once it's in there.” 06:00 “You have to create the tools to leverage that Data.” 06:40 Solving the Interoperability Problem. 07:00 “What tools can we provide the Doctor to better help him Process the Data.” 08:50 Figuring out what Data is useful to Doctors. 09:20 “What of this Data really matters, and why does it matter?” 10:25 Building Trust with Doctors to Trust AI components. 12:00 Pushing for other Clinical Staff to collect Data. 12:35 “The systems we use to Collect Data need to be smarter as well.” 13:00 “The real problem created by our Healthcare Culture is that Doctors are scared.” 14:10 Why current solutions are getting more uptake. 15:00 “Doctors don't get paid extra if they have the right info. 15:45 “How do you know if that Doctor is giving you good Healthcare or not?” 17:45 “How well can you track the Impact you're having on your Patients?” 20:15 Starting to think from a Value-Based Care mindset. 22:00 Meaningful Use changing the Healthcare Market overnight. 24:00 Lowering the Cost of Care. 25:20 “Tech is only an enabler.” 26:20 Making Data Actionable. 29:00 “How do I engage that Patient in a way that will cause them to change their behavior.”

A short introduction to the CMS Meaningful Use 3 Rule and how implementing UDI within the healthcare setting and moving toward the full GS1 will reduce costs and improve inventory management while providing accurate data reporting and complete patient EHR information. Ultimately, these changes will lead to knowledge-based decision making and improved quality of patient care.

Under MACRA, most physicians will participate in a value-based payment program known as MIPS, which stands for Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Beginning with the 2019 physician fee schedule, MIPS will replace the Physician Quality Reporting System, Value-Based Modifier, and Meaningful Use of electronic health records programs. Ms. Laura Hoffman, Assistant Director in the Department of Federal Affairs at AMA, provides an overview of the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, or CPIA, category, including how the activities may be reported and scored by CMS. Please click here for a full list of CMS' proposed CPIAs Update as of September 2017: CMS shortened the category name to “improvement activities”. The content provided here is otherwise still accurate and up-to-date.

Under MACRA, most physicians will participate in a value-based payment program known as MIPS, which stands for Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Beginning with the 2019 physician fee schedule, MIPS will replace the Physician Quality Reporting System, Value-Based Modifier, and Meaningful Use of electronic health records programs. Ms. Laura Hoffman, Assistant Director in the Department of Federal Affairs at AMA, provides an overview of the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, or CPIA, category, including how the activities may be reported and scored by CMS. Please click here for a full list of CMS' proposed CPIAs Update as of September 2017: CMS shortened the category name to “improvement activities”. The content provided here is otherwise still accurate and up-to-date.

Under MACRA, most physicians will participate in a value-based payment program known as MIPS, which stands for Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Beginning with the 2019 physician fee schedule, MIPS will replace the Physician Quality Reporting System, Value-Based Modifier, and Meaningful Use of electronic health records programs. Ms. Laura Hoffman, Assistant Director in the Department of Federal Affairs at AMA, provides an overview of the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, or CPIA, category, including how the activities may be reported and scored by CMS. Please click here for a full list of CMS' proposed CPIAs Update as of September 2017: CMS shortened the category name to “improvement activities”. The content provided here is otherwise still accurate and up-to-date.

Under MACRA, most physicians will participate in a value-based payment program known as MIPS, which stands for Merit-based Incentive Payment System. Beginning with the 2019 physician fee schedule, MIPS will replace the Physician Quality Reporting System, Value-Based Modifier, and Meaningful Use of electronic health records programs. Ms. Laura Hoffman, Assistant Director in the Department of Federal Affairs at AMA, provides an overview of the Clinical Practice Improvement Activities, or CPIA, category, including how the activities may be reported and scored by CMS. Please click here for a full list of CMS' proposed CPIAs Update as of September 2017: CMS shortened the category name to “improvement activities”. The content provided here is otherwise still accurate and up-to-date.

OBAMACARE: WHAT LIES BENEATH Erin Davis, Lead Law Clerk at RLG in Tampa, FL, joins the show to discuss her article Obamacare: What Lies Beneath. Has the ACA sunk your medical ship? Erin has studied the 2000+ page Affordable Care Act in depth and she shares her insight. In particular, how does the ACA creation of Accountable Care Organizations and Meaningful Use worsen the doctor shortage and negatively impact the doctor-patient relationship. Also discussed are strategies to overcome the ACA's shortcomings: federalism, EMRs that are really 'meaningful', direct care, free-market medical networks, and competition. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ebdlawyeringdifferently http://www.rotellalegalgroup.com/

Azalea Health This week we started our twice-monthly series with Tanya Mack, CEO of Women’s Telehealth. Her first guest was CEO and Co-founder of Azalea Health, Baha Zeidan. Azalea Health is an EMR company that launched in 2008 in Valdosta, GA. Since then the company has enjoyed steady growth and has been recognized as one […] The post Azalea Health – Top Docs Radio appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Farzad Mostashari has been on the frontlines of health care's biggest stories — from New York City's war on smoking to the Obama administration's $30 billion push for electronic health records. Now he's the CEO of Aledade, a fast-growing company that blends digital and population health and riding the wave of Obamacare startups.  Farzad sat down with POLITICO's Dan Diamond to discuss his beginnings in public health (starts at the 2:20 mark), his move to become the nation's leader on health IT (8:55), his thoughts on the Meaningful Use program (15:00), what it's like to be a government regulator (20:30), why he started Aledade (28:00), whether MACRA is a boon for the industry (34:00), if independent doctors are endangered and how new Medicare pilots will help (41:00).  Plus: Don't miss the lightning round quiz at 48:00.

Host: Jennifer Caudle, DO The Meaningful Use program from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) was designed to help make electronic health records fully functional, enabling better coordination of care for physicians and more transparency of information for patients. However, the rollout of this program proved to be far rockier than anticipated, as errors and communication gaps from EHR systems led to practice penalties despite heavy investments and best intentions toward compliance. What will the future hold for this dysfunctional program on a national scale, and how can clinicians find success in their respective practices amidst these challenges? Joining host Jennifer Caudle, DO at the American Osteopathic Association's annual medical education conference, OMED2015 in Orlando, FL to discuss strategies for better EHR integration is Laura Wooster, Vice President of Public Policy for the AOA.

Resurgens Orthopedics CIO, Bradley Dick. A CIO’s perspective on how to successfully navigate healthcare today and tomorrow. How Bradley and Resurgens has successfully tackled Meaningful Use, accountable care and value-based medicine.     The post Bradley Dick with Resurgens Orthopaedics appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Coverage at HiMSS 2015 was its usual challenge navigating to and from events, booth interviews and general circulation on the floors, Press Room amidst a sea of 43,000 healthIT stakeholders. As is our style we chat with thought leaders, entrepreneurs and healthdata wonks and healthIT fans of all stripes from Daniel Kraft, MD aka @Daniel_Kraft, Chair of the Medicine Track at SingularityU and Curator of Exponential Medicine, to John Glaser, Sr VP Cerner. My colleague and co-host reporting on the ground Douglas Goldstein @eFuturist catches up with Ed Martinez, CIOMiami Children's Health System at the Healthgrid (@health_grid) booth.  Produced by Gregg Masters @2healthguru for Health Innovation Media.

This session was pre-recorded on May 24th 2015, DO NOT CALL IN! On the first in our month end wrap-up of important news items in the population health and the broader quest for the triple aim we consider several newsworthy items including the Evolent IPO, the risks and benefits of quantifying oneself, the porous nature of many HealthIT systems given the seamingly daily announcments of data breaches, the potential dark side of the re-selling of sensitive personal information and more. For the write up see: 'PopHealth Week: The Monthly Wrap with Fred, Doug and Gregg'. Our next live broadcast is the first week in June 2015 with Jennifer Drago, Executive Vice President of Population Health at Sun Health. Enjoy.

Dr. Vaughan and Larry discuss changes in medicine including Meaningful Use payments to doctors for using Electronic Medical Records (EMR/EHR) and Chronic Care Management (CCM) payments. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/medicallyspeakingradio/message

  Senate Bill 158 On this week’s show we continued our monthly series with the Medical Association of Georgia. MAG’s CEO/Executive Director, Donald J. Palmisano, Jr. stopped by for a discussion on the state of Senate Bill 158, changes in the insurance contracting arena, and other topics on the MAG agenda. Donald also shared how […] The post Senate Bill 158 – Top Docs Radio appeared first on Business RadioX ®.

Today's guest is Boston emergency physician, Dr. Sean Kelly, Chief Medical Officer of Imprivata, healthcare IT security company. He will be discussing the state-of-the-art of electronic prescribing of controlled substances (EPCS) and as well New York's groundbreaking legislation known as I-STOP that will be implemented in March 2016. EPCS is an emerging technology that is just now moving into the national healthcare IT spotlight in part because of I-STOP. I-STOP mandates that all medications be prescribed electronically, including highly addictive opioids and other controlled substances. New York is the first state to require electronic prescribing, which is a major shift in how medications will be prescribed in the future. It is hoped that EPCS will streamline order workflow, reduce patient wait times for prescriptions, improve provider andpatient satisfaction, reduce prescription errors, and help meet Meaningful Use goals. It should help address prescription drug abuse, including opioids and other controlled substances.    

MPT Podcast 51 - Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Risk Assessment, with guest Mike Meikle of SecureHIM Inc. Mr. Meikle discusses Meaningful Use Stage 2 and how risk assessment ties into it. This Issue (7:37): What is Meaningful Use Stage 2? What does it mean to file attestation? What are the core requirements? Will legal battles mean financial incentives are going away? Click the play button to hear the podcast [smart_track_player url="http://mptaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/$emed$podcast/MPT_podcast_51.mp3" title="MPT Podcast 51 - Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Risk Assessment, with guest Mike Meikle of SecureHIM Inc." ]

Edward Seguine is the CEO of Clinical Ink, a pioneer in the development of electronic source record solutions for clinical research.  Prior to Clinical Ink, Mr. Seguine was the General Manager of Medidata's Trial Planning product suite after serving as the CEO of Fast Track Systems before that company was acquired by Medidata.Mr. Seguine began his pharma career at Eli Lilly where he helped establish Lilly's venture capital groups e.Lilly and Lilly Bioventures. Mr. Seguine has participated as an active board member and advisor for numerous start-up companies as well as CDISC.  In addition, he has actively collaborated with leading academic institutions (Tufts CSDD, MIT, Duke) to develop, publish and present research into novel approaches to improving clinical development.  Ed earned a BS in Finance from Brigham Young University, an MBA from Indiana University, and spent several years early in his career as the VP Finance of a start-up defense technology company. In this interview, Ed discusses the $7-10B industry of monitoring research sites for clinical trials, as well as the broader context and process of this dynamic and critical space including Meaningful Use.

Straight answers to your questions about ICD 10, Meaningful Use 2 and what you should do to become HIPAA compliant from Scott Jens, OD, cofounder and CEO of RevolutionEHR.

Are you ready for ICD 10 and Meaningful Use 2?  Industry expert Dr. Ian Lane tells you all you need to be prepared, where to go for information and some other great tips to be prepared for this VERY important looming change.

It's episode 20! In this episode Wai Keong and Ed are joined by US family practitioner and coder Dr. Michael Chen to talk about NOSH - an open-source US EMR. We talk about the inception and creation of an EMR from scratch, built 100% by a doctor who has learnt to code. We also touch on large topics such as Meaningful Use, Medicare, Agile Development in Healthcare It, and the mighty question: Should Doctors Learn to Code? This one is a keeper, and well worth a listen.

Panel "Does Meaningful Use Mean Meaningful Change?" Unlike the first stage of the meaningful use incentive program, for which providers had to demonstrate they were capable of performing certain tasks, stage two will require practices to actually perform those tasks. As this deadline looms beginning in January 2014 with a deadline of October 2014, hear from providers that are ready to demonstrate stage 2 MU and those still in the planning process. Panelists will cover practical strategies to navigate the various requirements to make sure you and your organization are ready for stage 2 MU. Learning Objectives: ∙ Strategies for patients to view their paperless record ∙ How to effectively send reminders to foster preventative care ∙ Ensuring secure data exchange while improving quality of care Moderator: Gabe Perna, Associate Editor, Healthcare Informatics Ken Ong, MD, MPH, CMIO, New York Hospital Queens Norm Chapin, MD, CMIO & Medical Director, Columbia Memorial Hospital Joanne Rohde, CEO, Axial Exchange Frank Roche, Associate Partner, IBM The panel took place at the Institute for Health Technology Transformation's annual health IT summit in New York 2013

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently released an update to its meaningful use policies about encrypting patient information. They made one thing perfectly clear – the only way to avoid the data breach notification requirement, and potential fines, is to encrypt the data. With small and mid-sized businesses increasingly the target of cyber attacks, the time to address encrypting personal health information (PHI) is now.

The Emory Clinic has had the benefit of electronic medical record capabilities for close to 20 years. With the implementation of our current EMR in 2005, certain tools have been adopted quickly, while others have been slower to be incorporated in the day to day work flow of the average practice. As Meaningful Use of Electronic Health Records became an integral part of the US Healthcare Reform initiatives, leadership of The Emory Clinic began to understand that constructive incorporation of the required program elements into daily practice workflow would require a very intentional redesign of that workflow. Given the size of the practice (close to 2000 providers) and its geographic dispersion, coupled with the integration with Emory Healthcare’s multiple hospitals, the team knew that this redesign would take tremendous coordination, planning and execution of process improvement methodology. The faculty practice operations team joined forces with a local consulting team that utilized a very disciplined process improvement method to redesign, standardize and implement a practice wide workflow that created consistent experiences for patients, allows providers to qualify for Meaningful Use achievement, and set the stage for future workflow improvements. The leadership team from Emory will share the background, decision making, strategic planning and execution methods used during this project. Learning Objectives: • Benefits of standardization of workflow in a large multi-specialty practice • Process Improvement strategies that can help create engagement for change • Balancing standardization and customization in the practice environment • Application of Meaningful Use requirements in the ambulatory faculty practice setting

Presented by Willa H. Drummond, MD, MS

Presented by Willa H. Drummond, MD, MS

Ideally, healthcare providers should avoid unnecessary admissions and readmissions and work instead to improve their patient population’s health and hospital experience. This may require getting timely, high quality metrics on factors such as emergency room efficiency, cost management, patient flow, staff productivity, clinical outcomes, efficacy of treatment, and “Meaningful Use”. This, in turn, would require high quality, near real time, highly actionable analytics which will be delivered leveraging state of the art operational, clinical, and financial analytics platforms. Are we just getting started with these platforms or riding the maturity curve? What related people, process, and technology challenges will have to be overcome before accountable care can be delivered consistently and reliably?

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 2 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer. Part 2 key highlights include: - Medication Reconciliation overview - Patient Innovations overview - EPCS Gold 2.0 Overview - Interoperability vs. Fragmentation in the HIT Industry

In this interview podcast, HIT Consultant speaks with Cameron Deemer, President of DrFirst about their integrated HIT suite of solutions, DrFirst Defender, Meaningful Use, and emerging trends. This is part 1 of a 3 part podcast series with Cameron Deemer. Part 1 key highlights include: - DrFirst integrated platform approach - Overview of DrFirst Defender - Meaningful Use and their AttestEasy solution - Challenges clients faced meeting Meaningful Use

MPT Podcast 35 - 101 Ideas to Increase Revenue & Decrease Costs Part 2, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley shares more of her many suggestions for increasing profit for your medical practice. This Issue (7:30): Some useful tips on obtaining Meaningful Use incentives Why you shouldn't purchase an EMR just for the incentives How do PQRI and E-Prescribing come into play? Are there any other financial incentives or grants you can qualify for? Click the play button to hear the podcast   [smart_track_player url="http://mptaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/$emed$podcast/MPT_podcast_35.mp3" title="MPT Podcast 35-101 Ideas to Increase Revenue & Decrease Costs Part 2" ] Right-click to download

MPT Podcast 29 - EHR Update 1, with guest Mary Pat Whaley of ManageMyPractice.com. Ms. Whaley brings us up-to-date on the latest in the EHR news, including the new HIPAA 5010 regulations and upcoming ICD10 coding rules. This Issue (9:16): Why doing EHR just for the money might not be such a good idea How to find certified EHR vendors Should you declare Meaningful Use for Medicaid or Medicare? Is your EHR system compliant with HIPAA 5010 regulations? Click the play button to hear the podcast   [smart_track_player url="http://mptaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/$emed$podcast/MPT_podcast_29.mp3" title="MPT Podcast 29: EHR Update 1" ] Right-click to download

by Robert S. Miller. Dr. Peter Yu, guest editor for the JOP Special Series "Electronic Health Records in Oncology," discusses the Federal meaningful use incentives and their applicability to oncologists.

MPT Podcast 18 - Meaningful Use Update 1 This Issue (3:37): What's the latest on the Meaningful Use incentives? Important deadlines for Eligible Providers Why it might be best to wait until 2012 to declare MU Some proposals for grace periods Important links: Government's Certified HIT Product List Website CMS EHR Incentive Programs   [smart_track_player url="http://mptaudio.s3.amazonaws.com/$emed$podcast/MPT_podcast_18.mp3" title="MPT Podcast 18-Meaningful Use Update 1" ] Right-click to download

Tony McCormick, Secretary of the Open EMR Foundation, and Project manager of their Meaningful Use certification talks about the history of the project.

EHR Meaningful Use Dr. Michael Brody joins us for a very informative webinar. He explains how Kiosks and Web Portals will enable practices implementing Electronic Health Records to meet several of the requirements to show meaningful use and allow practitioners to realize the government incentives. Several other areas of meaningful use were also covered in the question and answer session

Welcome back to the show after a week on hiatus.Hope you had a great Thanksgiving.This week we talk about Electronic Health Records, Meaningful Use and what does it mean to be “Certified.” We also look at a number of other EHR related issues that will be helpful to you as a RIM service provider.Our special guest and EHR expert is Randy Barnes, Chief Operating Officer of Unifi Technologies, Inc.Randy has a unique perspective on the EHR stuff and he proves it in this interview.Enjoy this weeks show and the information in it.

Host: John Lynn Health information technology (or HIT) is touted by many to help practices cut costs, but can also be daunting to consider. Host John Lynn, founder of EMRandHIPAA.com, addresses some of the most common questions about HIT with guests from the Practice Fusion Connect User Conference in San Francisco, on November 5, 2010. How can clinicians implement new technologies without going over budget or disrupting the flow of their practices? What are some questions to ask when shopping for an electronic health record (or EHR) system, and what do clinicians need to know about EHR incentives as well as qualifying for meaningful use? Featured guests include: Camille Williams, practice manager from ENT Associates of South Atlanta in Marietta, Georgia Ken Harrington, practice manager from Washington Endocrine Clinic in Washington, DC Robert Rowley, MD, chief medical officer of Practice Fusion

From the folks of AHIMA (American Health Information Management Association) comes a nice and concise overview of the final rule of the Meaningful Use provisions for electronic medical records implementation. AHIMA is one of the largest associations of health information management (HIM) professionals and was founded in 1928 - which I am pretty sure pre-dates the use of electronic medical records. This first in a series of white papers offers a basic description of the final rules. We covered some of the specifics in previous posts CMS Final Rule Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3. But if you are new to all of this and just want to get your feet wet, here is a good place to start: CLICK HERE to download the PDF

Dr. Michael Brody discusses the government's definition of meaningful use with respect to electronic health records (EHR). He walks us through what's needed to qualify for the $44,000 in incentives available to physicians. The full webinar is available on the AAPPM member site.

Host: Jack Lewin, MD Guest: David Blumenthal, MD, MPP Electronic management of health information will someday replace the pen and paper chart. How significant a role will health information technology, or HIT, play in the newly-reformed healthcare system? What incentives are the federal government offering to foster the widespread, meaningful use of or HIT, and more importantly, what qualifies as meaningful use? Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Barack Obama, weighs in on the value of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry and explains meaningful use criteria. How can your practice implement an electronic system that will comply with federal meaningful use guidelines? Hosted by Dr. Jack Lewin.

Host: Jack Lewin, MD Guest: David Blumenthal, MD, MPP Electronic management of health information will someday replace the pen and paper chart. How significant a role will health information technology, or HIT, play in the newly-reformed healthcare system? What incentives are the federal government offering to foster the widespread, meaningful use of or HIT, and more importantly, what qualifies as meaningful use? Dr. David Blumenthal, National Coordinator for Health Information Technology under President Barack Obama, weighs in on the value of the National Cardiovascular Data Registry and explains meaningful use criteria. How can your practice implement an electronic system that will comply with federal meaningful use guidelines? Hosted by Dr. Jack Lewin.