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George McCulloch, Deputy CIO, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:57:15 +0000

*The application environment: "We use a smattering of things" *Developed Horizon Expert Orders for CPOE (bought by McKesson) *Developed an EMR (now marketed by ICA) *Certification and self-development *Weighing the buy versus build decision

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Scott MacLean, CIO, Newton-Wellesley Hospital, Partners Healthcare, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 31 May 2011 16:14:09 +0000

*Ambulatory/acute integration *Bringing over the allergies *Meditech's flexibility *Newton-Wellesley's Meaningful Use roadmap *Certification challenges

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Daniel Nigrin, M.D., SVP for IS & CIO, Children’s Hospital Boston, Podcast Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 19:39:16 +0000

While some CIOs favor an integrated suite that requires fewer interfaces on the back end, others are functionality fanatics, happy to give the docs just about whatever they like best, as long as they promise to use the system they’ve chosen. Not surprisingly, CIOs who are also MDs — and thus have been on the [...]

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EHR Certification is a Black Box

Will Weider — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 18:02:24 +0000

The EHR vendors have not been sharing HOW their products are being certified. Currently, it is a black box. This is VERY frustrating. Especially since hospitals and doctors are supposed to be using the EHRs as cerified. Often there are many ways for an EHR to accomplish a testing objective. The current certification just produces [...]

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Drummond Offering Certification Roadmap

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 03:28:23 +0000

Drummond Group Inc. has introduced its “EHR Certification Roadmap for Hospitals” for facilities with EHRs developed in-house or with systems comprised of various technologies from multiple vendors. The roadmap provides an evaluation of certification needs, certification gap analysis and customized testing, according to Drummond Group. First, it guides the hospital in cataloging the technologies in [...]

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John Glaser, CEO, Health Services Business Unit, Siemens Healthcare, Podcast Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 20:51:56 +0000

With just under a year at the helm of Siemens Healthcare, it’s fair to say John Glaser has taken full measure of life on the vendor side. As such, he’s been immersed in issues like deciding which products are “go-forward,” which customer segments are best suited to the vendor’s offerings, and which industry regulations will [...]

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Blumenthal Letter Aims to Clarify Certification Questions

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:42:09 +0000

"Today on our FAQ page, we are posting a revised Question and Answer regarding an issue that has recently caused confusion in our meaningful use regulations: namely, the flexibility that providers have to defer performance on some Stage 1 meaningful use objectives; and how that squares with the requirement that providers must nonetheless possess fully-certified EHR systems."

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Making Strides in Certification

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 14:02:57 +0000

No one is a bigger critic of HITECH than I, but I have to give credit where it’s due. Before we started down this road, there was one certification organization — CCHIT — and it had all sorts of PR problems in the form of links to vendor-run HIMSS. But at that time, without certification [...]

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Is Self-Certifying the Path to Tranquility?

dmmorreale — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 15:18:37 +0000

As Lao Tzu, the father of Taoism once said “The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” When I first read the announcement from CCHIT in November that they had a process for Hospitals to self certify their EHR Environment for Meaningful Use, I was thrown back to ancient eastern philosophy [...]

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Program Aims to Help Hospitals Meet Certification Mark

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 01:34:53 +0000

CCHIT is launching a new EHR certification program for hospitals that have uncertified legacy software, customized commercial products or self-developed EHR systems. “The EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals,” or EACH program, is an ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification for installed hospital EHR technology. The program contains three phases, all of which are designed to give applicants the greatest [...]

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Barriers to Meaningful Use with Modular Certification

Brian Ahier — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 18:16:04 +0000

The ONC has given guidance which is adding more roadblocks for hospitals and health systems working to become meaningful users of EHRs. As I posted on the ONC blog, they have published on the ONC website an FAQ stating that hospitals must have EHRs that have been certified against all 24 objectives of meaningful use, not just [...]

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healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey: CIOs Surviving MU Stress Test

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:30:32 +0000

Three quarters of CIOs are either feeling great or cautiously optimistic about qualifying for Stage 1 Meaningful Use dollars, according to the November healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey. In line with that sentiment, very few (under 10 percent) have been forced to "turn off" an application or piece of functionality they had taken live, something which can happen when systems are implemented quickly.

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CCHIT Launching Program for Complex Hospital EHR Environments

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:27:09 +0000

On Dec. 15, CCHIT will launch a new EHR certification program for hospitals that have uncertified legacy software, customized commercial products or have developed their own EHR systems. “The EHR Alternative Certification for Hospitals,” or EACH program, is an ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 certification for installed hospital EHR technology. The program will be introduced at a Web cast [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One W/Partners HealthCare’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital CIO Sue Schade, Part 2

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 14:23:33 +0000

To many, Boston is the center of the HIT universe. And to put an even finer point on it, Partners HealthCare is often thought of as the center of that center. With the departure of long-time corporate CIO John Glaser, and a complete reevaluation of the organization’s application landscape, Partners certainly is a time of [...]

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Healthcare 2.0 – Here We Go Again

Paul Roemer — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 15:12:31 +0000

Just when you thought it was safe to get back into the water… It is a strange day when the smartest people in the room are the ones who did absolutely nothing. Whether doing nothing required divination and prescience or merely resulted from having no idea which way to tack the boat need not be determined.

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healthsystemCIO.com SnapSurvey: CIOs Confident Vendors Will Deliver

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 12:00:09 +0000

Almost 80 percent of CIOs feel their strategic vendors will be up to the challenge of helping them qualify for Stage 1 Meaningful Use incentives, according to the September healthsystemCIO.com Advisory Panel SnapSurvey. And in what will come as welcome news to those at ONC crafting EMR certification policy, 60 percent said any software upgrades [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One-w/HealthEast Care System VP & CIO Mac McClurkan, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 23:13:50 +0000

For Mac McClurkan, managing vendor relationships isn’t all that complicated — set clear expectations and then hold everyone involved to the highest levels of accountability. With such clarity going in, it’s hard for either party to feel wronged. Well along on his CPOE journey at HealthEast, McClurkan has other fish to fry, such as attaining [...]

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CCHIT Begins HITECH Certifications, InfoGard Joins Party

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 17:10:57 +0000

CCHIT has launched its ONC-ATCB program for EHRs to certify they are capable of meeting 2011/2012 Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria. The certification will be offered for Complete EHRs that meet all HHS 2010/2011 criteria and EHR Modules that meet one or more – but not all – of the criteria. According to the organization, [...]

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CHIME: Bigger Are Better Positioned for MU

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:10:36 +0000

Expectations for achieving Meaningful Use and qualifying for incentive payments vary depending on the type of healthcare organization and its size, according to a recent CHIME survey. For example, 38 percent of CIO respondents from academic medical centers expect to qualify for stimulus funding within the first six months, compared with only 22 percent of CIOs at community hospitals.

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Do Integration Technologies Need to be Certified?

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:15:36 +0000

Dear HISPros: I’m very confused about ONC’s certification requirements – if my EMR is certified, but the data goes through an interfacing technology or data warehouse before reaching a third party or CMS, am I still qualified to receive Meaningful Use dollars? This is a very interesting question and I am sure we will hear more on this as there are so many possible permutations of vendors and systems in a “best of breed” hospital IT shop.

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Ministry Health Care & Affinity Health System CIO Will Weider, Chapter 2

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 15:05:34 +0000

Outside healthcare IT, Wisconsin is known for cheese, cows and the Green Bay Packers; inside, it’s known as Epic country. And while the vendor calls most of Wisconsin’s health systems its clients, Affinity Health System and Ministry Health Care (now part of the same organization) are not one of them. That leaves the system’s CIO, [...]

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EHR Certification Creep Confounds CIOs

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 19:36:45 +0000

Having worked with them in two industries over the last 10 years, I can tell you that CIOs are a pretty unflappable bunch. They’re used to seeing inside and outside influences — the government, their CEOs, and corporate boards — upset the five year plan apple cart they’ve meticulously constructed to bring their organization through [...]

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CCHIT/Drummond Become First ONC-ATCBs

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 20:54:17 +0000

CCHIT has been recognized by ONC as an Authorized Testing and Certification Body (ONC-ATCB) for EHRs. It is authorized to offer HHS certification for complete EHRs that meet all of the Stage 1, 2011/2012 HHS/ONC criteria, as well as certification for modular EHR products that meet one or more – but not all – of [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center VP & CIO Lynn Vogel, Chapter 4

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 11:30:16 +0000

While just about every CIO in healthcare can be described as intelligent, only a handful deserve to be called wise. One of those is undoubtedly M. D. Anderson Cancer Center’s Lynn Vogel. And Vogel is not the kind of CIO to keep all that wisdom to himself. As such, he’s an active educator in both [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Concord Hospital CIO Deane Morrison, Chapter 1

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:30:57 +0000

With the government piling on its Meaningful Use regulations, healthcare CIOs are under a lot of pressure to bring home the incentive bacon. For some, relaxation takes on traditional forms such as vacationing, biking or running. But Deane Morrison is no regular CIO. When he wants to decompress, it’s time to scale a mountain, perhaps [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Carilion Health System SVP and CIO Daniel Barchi, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:02:00 +0000

Managing 512 interfaces isn’t easy. That’s why Daniel Barchi, SVP and CIO with Carilion Health System, was more than happy to embark on the search for a single integrated EMR a few years ago. After an intensive selection process — which included copious input from clinicians — the health system selected Epic. And from that [...]

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CHIME Concerned w/Elements of Temporary Certification

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 15:14:05 +0000

Stage 1 Meaningful Use certification criteria may change even after the "final" regulations are issued sometime this summer, necessitating the ongoing need to certify HIT products for the foreseeable future, according to CHIME's interpretation of the ONC Temporary Certification Program. In what it found to be a positive development, the authorized testing and certification bodies recognized by ONC (ONC-ATCBs) can not require that integrated bundled EHRs or EHR modules be certified to a higher set of standards than the certification criteria set by the ONC.

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The Great Certification Bottleneck

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 14:13:37 +0000

While ONC has been moving at a pretty good clip since December when it released the Meaningful Use NPRM and Certification IFR, right up until the announcement this week of its final temporary certification program, it’s apparent just how jammed up its timeline is becoming. The temporary program seems clear enough, as there is minimal [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Hallmark Health VP of IS Carol Dresser, Chapter 3

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 02:38:49 +0000

It didn’t take an act of Congress to start Carol Dresser and Hallmark Health implementing advanced clinical technologies. Hallmark — which includes Lawrence Memorial Hospital, Melrose-Wakefield Hospital, Hallmark Health Cancer Center and Hallmark Health Medical Center — is now working to increase adoption of CPOE and perfect its bedside bar coded medication administration processes. What [...]

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TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One-w/Meditech President & COO Howard Messing, Part II

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:36:23 +0000

In every industry, there are organizations so pervasive they constitute bellwethers for the entire market segment. In healthcare IT, that company is Meditech. With over 2,200 customers and almost $400 million in software revenues last year, the Westwood, Mass.-based organization’s opinions on national policy — especially the HITECH Act’s Meaningful Use NPRM — should be taken very seriously by D.C.’s policy wonks. Offering those opinions to healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra this exclusive interview is President and COO Howard Messing. In the following discussion, Messing — who was recently promoted to CEO subject to a perfunctory confirmation vote — offers his thoughts on the aforementioned HITECH Act, meeting customer demands for the latest software and much more.

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TEXT/PODCAST: One-on-One w/Former ONC Senior Adviser John Glaser, Part III

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 27 May 2010 12:18:41 +0000

Over the past year, John Glaser, Ph.D., has been eating and breathing Meaningful Use and Certification even more than his HITECH-focused CIO colleagues. That’s because while Glaser has kept up his role as VP & CIO at Partners HealthCare on a part-time basis, he’s also been winging down to D.C. every week to fulfill his duties as Senior Adviser to ONC and its chief, National Coordinator David Blumenthal, M.D. In this — his first extensive interview since the culmination of that role in March — Glaser talks frankly with healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra about working in the federal government, the proposed regulations, and what the future may hold for both the industry and himself.

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A Comment Period of Uncommon Consequence

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 19 May 2010 13:28:54 +0000

Whether a thing is determined to be good or bad depends on perspective. Who does the individual making the judgment represent? What are the criteria they are applying to their evaluation? While I’ve been sitting here for the last six months criticizing the heck out of the HIT Policy Committee, surely the individuals on that [...]

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CHIME: Perm. Certification Program Must Build on Temp

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:48:41 +0000

Organizations that are allowed to certify technology in the temporary certification stage should have their certifications carry forward into the permanent phase, thus providing protections to vendors and providers that have installed applications under the temporary process, according to CHIME’s comments on the Permanent portion of the Certification Process NPRM. CHIME also expressed concerns about [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Methodist CIO Pam McNutt

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 17:12:15 +0000

Earlier this week, Pamela McNutt, SVP and CIO of Methodist Health System in Dallas, gave a presentation entitled “Meeting Stage 1 Meaningful Use: A View from a Healthcare System,” at the AHA’s Annual Membership Meeting in Washington, D.C. McNutt — chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee and former chair of the organization’s Advocacy Leadership Team [...]

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Survey Says: CIOs Not Bullish on HITECH

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:25:43 +0000

In what makes for a disturbing combination, CIOs are both doubtful that the federal government (HHS/CMS/ONC) will have the HITECH program fully operational by the time incentives are to be paid out, and pessimistic about their chances of qualifying for those payments, according to the healthsystemCIO.com April SnapSurvey. A full three quarters of CIOs doubt [...]

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FDA to Recommend New Physician Certification

Gerry Higgins — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:49:33 +0000

The FDA has been receiving a great deal of criticism from the clinical community about a variety of issues, but probably none is as contentious as the ongoing patient safety issues regarding harmful drug-drug interactions and drug-gene interactions, estimated by the Institute of Medicine to cause 250,000 deaths each year in the U.S. The current [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/St. Vincent CIO Tim Stettheimer

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 19:25:52 +0000

As chair of CHIME’s certification committee, St. Vincent’s Health System SVP & CIO Tim Stettheimer, PhD, has been instrumental in developing the CIO-focused organization’s new CHCIO program. And as chair of CHIME’s Board of Trustees, he’s also been at the forefront of crafting the organization’s comment letters on the Meaningful Use and Certification NPRMs. But [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/N. Wellesley CIO Scott MacLean

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 17:16:34 +0000

Working as CIO in one of the most renowned health systems in the country gives Newton-Wellesley Hospital’s Scott Maclean — also a Corporate Director in the overarching Partners HealthCare superstructure — a unique perspective from which to evaluate the HITECH landscape. And though some might think organizations like Partners are ready to meet Stage 1 [...]

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Which EHR Mistake Would You Rather Make?

Paul Roemer — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:26:11 +0000

"My work here is done.”If something is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. Mistakes are inevitable—don’t be afraid to make them. However, pick your mistakes—let them be mistakes of your choosing, not mistakes born out of the hubristic approach of others. Permit me to explain. Hospital CIOs have a goal or set of goals they must meet to help drive the mission, vision, or strategy of their organization.

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TEXT/PODCAST: Bell Named CCHIT Chair

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:24:11 +0000

Karen Bell, M.D. — most recently SVP, Health Information Technology Services with Masspro — has been named chair of CCHIT, effective April 26. Prior to her tenure at Masspro, the federally-contracted QIO within Massachusetts, Bell was director, Office of Health Information Technology Adoption and acting deputy at ONC, and was ONC’s representative on CCHIT’s board of commissioners from 2006 to 2008. She also has served as division director for the quality improvement group, office of standards and quality for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and medical director, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Rhode Island, among other positions.

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/Eclipsys CEO Phil Pead

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:00:42 +0000

While everyone tries to create a sensation at the annual HIMSS conference, few actually achieve it. But with the release of its open-architecture Helios platform, Eclipsys managed to surmount that bar. The iPhone-esque vision of an open platform which independent application designers can build on seems to many a refreshing proposition. And some see it [...]

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MGMA: CCHIT Stamp Must Count

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:54:38 +0000

The Medical Group Management Association wants ONC to deem electronic health record software certified by CCHIT in 2008 or later as meeting the requirements for Meaningful Use Stage 1, according to the organization’s comment letter on the Certification Process NPRM. “MGMA representatives will continue to advocate for simplified EHR incentive program requirements, logistics and software certification processes. MGMA representatives believe that stringent program requirements will exclude a large percentage of physician practices from participating, which undermines the intention of the legislation,” the organization stated.

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CHIME: Time is Top Certification Concern

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:40:08 +0000

CHIME is “ … very concerned that the introduction of a two-stage approach for certification will prolong the current instability in the health IT marketplace, which exists because of the unfinalized status of meaningful use and certification regulations,” stated the organization in its comment letter to ONC regarding the Certification process NPRM. “Above all else, [...]

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PODCAST: One-on-One w/GE Health CEO Vishal Wanchoo

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:50:00 +0000

At HIMSS 2010, GE Healthcare IT tried to make a splash with the release of its Qualibria clinical knowledge management platform. While it’s unclear how the industry has received that new application, it is clear the vendor has one thing going for it — outstanding development partners in the likes of Intermountain Healthcare and the [...]

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HIT Certification Workgroup Debates Engaging FDA

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 21:50:06 +0000

The merits of working with the FDA to help ONC craft an EMR certification program that addresses both pre- and post-market HIT patient safety issues were discussed at the HIT Policy Committee Workgroup on Certification and Adoption meeting held this week. On one side of the debate, HIT Software Entrepreneur and Workgroup Co-Chair Paul Egerman argued that the FDA could bring some significant value to the table in crafting a program.

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VIDEO: Guerra Lets Fly on HITECH

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:10:08 +0000

In early February, I gave my “State of the Industry” presentation at the annual meeting of US Oncology. The Vice President of Informatics Development, Aaron Kaufman, had come across some of my columns and was intrigued by my politically incorrect take on the industry-transforming program. The video below is an honest evaluation of what’s happening [...]

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Chatting with the National Coordinator for Health IT

Brian Ahier — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 19:00:51 +0000

I had a brief chat with Dr. David Blumenthal last week that basically covered four areas: Transparency at the ONC; HITREC and communities of shared learning; Personal Health Records and possible certification; Rural practices and Critical Access Hospitals. Regarding transparency, which is something I'm fairly passionate about and have seen some improvements on at the ONC, Dr. Blumenthal said, "Trust is such an important factor in the management of sensitive information that it has to be attended to in everything we do. I think that being open is one way to create trust."

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Policy Committee to Discuss Certification IFR

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:38:50 +0000

The HIT Policy Committee will hold a conference call on April 5 at 10 Eastern to discuss its comments on the Certification IFR. Members of the public may listen in via phone @ 1-877-705-6006. Learn more about the IFR: Standards & Certification Interim Final Rule: Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications, and Certification Criteria for Electronic Health Record Technology [PDF - 247 KB]

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Drummond Prepares for Certification App

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 16:18:20 +0000

The Drummond Group “has received a very enthusiastic response from many EHR vendors, and (looks) forward to starting” its EHR Testing and Certification Program, according to a blog post published by the organization today. In closing, Drummond stated, “We also are discussing and recording our comments for the Certification Program NPRM. Comments are due by April 9 and, when we publish them, we will either copy them here to our blog or link to them.”

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SnapSurvey: Certification NPRM Doesn’t Make Grade

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:23:23 +0000

More than 70 percent of CIOs grade the recently released NPRM on a process to certify EHRs with a C or lower, according to the March healthsystemCIO.com’s Advisory Panel March SnapSurvey®. (To view all charts in a larger format, click here. To go directly to a larger version of any individual chart, click on the [...]

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Stop Blaming the Product

Paul Roemer — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 17:35:55 +0000

Is there a best EHR system? Perhaps Cerner, Epic, GE, or McKesson? For those who have followed my writing, you’re probably thinking my answer is “None of the above.” I’ll do one better, and I write this with the utmost sincerity—it does not really matter which vendor you select. As the EHR vendors reading this [...]

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Leavitt: CCHIT Will Fill Gov.-Produced Vacuum

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 15:54:30 +0000

“There is a lot of confusion among providers that is interfering with EHR adoption progress, so we are taking four steps to bring more clarity to the situation,” stated Mark Leavitt, M.D., Ph.D. CCHIT’s chair, in a press release this morning. Specifically, the Commission is taking the following steps: Making the CCHIT Certified program fully [...]

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Version Vexation

Adam Gale — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 17:23:08 +0000

Wanting to get to meaningful use? Well, better make sure you are on the right version of your vendor’s software. Serious upgrades are in the works if you are a McKesson, Meditech or Siemens customer. Every vendor has a version you need to be on for their “certified version”. See if you can descramble the [...]

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ONC/NIST Plan Webinar on Certification NPRM

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:09:17 +0000

ONC and NIST will hold a webinar “to help listeners better understand the proposals included in the (Certification Programs) NPRM on March 25 4:00 – 5:00 p.m. EDT. According to ONC, there is limited space for attendees, so those unable to join can view a transcript posted to the ONC website by March 29. Information [...]

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CHIME Wants Changes to Certification Standards IFR

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 13:31:44 +0000

Further clarification is needed as to how certification will apply to organizations that use multiple clinical systems as components to an overall EHR, states CHIME in a comment letter to ONC regarding the Certification standards and implementation specifications IFR. CHIME supports wording in the rule that requires only certification of individual EHR modules. Additionally, CHIME [...]

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Podcast: One-on-One w/Meditech Maven John Haffty

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 01:58:36 +0000

When it comes to Meditech, no one knows more about the company’s products and services — other than possibly Neil Pappalardo or Howard Messing — than John Haffty. Breaking the cardinal rule of putting all eggs in one basket, Haffty has made a career, and built a company, on helping Meditech’s client base get more [...]

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CCHIT: IFR = 1 Step Forward, 2 Back

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 15:46:07 +0000

Certain criteria and standards in the Certification and Implementation IFR may represent “a step backwards in progress toward EHR interoperability, by dropping standards that were already federally recognized and widely adopted, while other criteria demand an unrealistic leap forward,” stated CCHIT in a recently filed comment letter to CMS. “… the criteria and standards need [...]

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Don’t Miss Out on This Once in a Lifetime Opportunity!

Neal Ganguly — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:39:08 +0000

The comment period is drawing to a close on two important rules impacting our industry. The CMS notice of proposed rulemaking on the “meaningful use” EHR incentive program, and the ONC’s interim final rule describing the certification criteria for EHRs that qualify for the meaningful use program were issued on January 13, 2010. Both rules [...]

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AHA Sees Negative Consequences in Meaningful Use

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:08:35 +0000

“The AHA is very concerned that the high bar for achieving ‘meaningful use’ and the limited transitions proposed in the NPRM will severely limit hospitals’ ability to access these much-needed resources,” the organization stated in its recently filed comment letter to CMS. “We fear that the ultimate impact of the program actually could be the [...]

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PODCAST: HIT Policy Committee’s Paul Egerman Discusses New NPRM on Certification

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:32:04 +0000

The long-awaited NPRM outlining a certification process for electronic health records was finally released on Tuesday, March 2, smack-dab in the middle of HIMSS annual conference. With much of the industry booked in back-to-back meetings through Wednesday, few have had a chance to review HHS/CMS/ONC’s latest tome — this one a rather light 150+ document [...]

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Certification NPRM Drops During HIMSS

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:36:56 +0000

The much-anticipated NPRM on Certification was released today, revealing a two-phase plan that looks to satisfy the letter of the law in time to pay out stimulus cash. The first proposed program creates a temporary certification process under which David Blumenthal, M.D., “would authorize organizations to assume many of the responsibilities that will eventually be [...]

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Live From HIMSS: Podcast w/Siemens’ Janet Dillione

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:32:19 +0000

Working to convert Invision customers to Soarian one by one, Siemens is focused on proving that its newer package can deliver the goods when it comes to CPOE. To discuss this, along with topics such as certification, the acute EMR competitive landscape, and many others, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra caught up with Janet Dillione during a very busy HIMSS conference in Atlanta.

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CCHIT Takes on Oncology & Women’s Health

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 04:53:11 +0000

Following an open recruitment for volunteer workgroup members, CCHIT will begin development of “Comprehensive” EHR certification programs in oncology and women’s health. Those interested in participating should visit http://www.cchit.org/participate to apply between March 16 and April 16. Workgroup members will be announced in June. Previous CCHIT expansions include Comprehensive offerings for cardiovascular medicine, child health [...]

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Gartner: Certification Cannot Dictate Buying Decision

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:31:15 +0000

Certification and vendors guarantees to achieve it are little help when choosing products that will qualify for HITECH payments, according to a recently published research note entitled, “The Limits of Certification and Guarantees in Buying Electronic Health Records in the U.S.” by Gartner VP and Distinguished Analyst Wes Rishel, a member of the HIT Standards [...]

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CHIME Survey Reveals Vast MU Concerns

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:35:48 +0000

More than 90 percent of CIOs responding to a recent CHIME survey expressed at least some concern about whether they will qualify for HITECH stimulus funding, according to the organization, with upgrading or implementing a certified EHR system one of the largest challenges. Nearly half of all respondents, 48 percent, expressed concern about vendor readiness, [...]

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CHIME Comments Pan Meaningful Use

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:06:10 +0000

The Meaningful Use NPRM outlines an “all-or-nothing” approach that is too ambitious, doesn’t take into account the need for flexibility by providers and does not reward incremental progress, according to comments CHIME will file today with CMS. “Without an approach that rewards progress or provides sufficient time, organizations with limited resources will likely have little [...]

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One-on-One W/Beacon Partners CEO Ralph Fargnoli (I)

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:29:22 +0000

As hospitals of all shapes, sizes and complexity sprint for HITECH dollars, many are looking at consultants to fill gaps in their healthcare IT intellectual capital repositories. Offering everything from system selection expertise to contract negotiation to temporary staffing augmentation, many organizations won’t best Meaningful Use without outside help. To gain insight into just what [...]

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EHNAC Opens Comment Period on HIE Accreditation

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 21:27:12 +0000

The Electronic Healthcare Network Accreditation Commission (EHNAC), a non-profit standards development organization and accrediting body, has begun a 60-day public review of key components for its HIE accreditation program. All comments and feedback will be reviewed and additional revisions incorporated into the final criteria, version 1.0, tentatively scheduled for release this summer. The HIE accreditation [...]

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One-on-One w/eCW CEO Girish Kumar Navani (III)

Anthony Guerra — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:11:23 +0000

While there is no doubt health system CIOs are working 18-hour days just to keep their heads above water, major inpatient and outpatient EMR vendors have significant to-do lists as well. From HITECH guarantees to reading the tea leaves on certification to staffing up for the oncoming sales tsunami, vendors know one bad implementation can [...]

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One-on-One w/CCHIT Exec. Director Alisa Ray (III)

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:29:20 +0000

As the industry waits breathlessly for federal guidance on EMR certification, no organization is closer to the edge of its seat than CCHIT. As such, no individual will be more interested in reading that anticipated document than CCHIT Executive Director Alisa Ray. With the impending resignation of CCHIT Chair Mark Leavitt, and no word on [...]

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New Mandatory Genomics Education is Imminent

Gerry Higgins — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:05:22 +0000

An HHS committee on Physician and Patient Education is developing new certification requirements for hospital physicians in genomics and pharmacogenomics. Most hospital physicians, unless your specialty is oncology or obstetrics, are not familiar with anything but diseases inherited as classical Mendelien traits. These new rules will require basic certification in both classical genetics and the [...]

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Policy Committee Wants Many Changes to MU

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:51:39 +0000

Most healthcare providers will be happy to hear that the federal health IT Policy Committee isn’t content with the proposed definition of what constitutes the meaningful use of e-health records. Though that doesn’t mean it’s getting any easier to qualify for the stimulus funds that will reimburse healthcare providers for EHR investments. That’s largely because [...]

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CCHIT Opens IFR-Aligned Programs

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 18:35:42 +0000

CCHIT has opened its “CCHIT Certified Comprehensive IFR Stage 1” and “Modular IFR Stage 1” certification programs — both formerly entitled “2011” programs — to align with the Interim Final Rule issued by HHS earlier this year. The updated Criteria, Test Scripts, Handbooks, Agreements and other supportive documents are available now and applications are open [...]

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One-on-One w/Methodist Health CIO Pam McNutt (I)

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:19:56 +0000

As chair of CHIME’s Policy Steering Committee, Pamela McNutt, SVP & CIO, Methodist Health System, is leading that organization’s response to the Meaningful Use Interim Final Rule (IFR). But McNutt’s dual role as member of the AHA IT Policy Advisory Committee gives her an even more powerful vantage from which to formulate a comment, while [...]

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One-on-One w/CCHIT Exec. Director Alisa Ray (II)

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 18:13:27 +0000

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One-on-One w/McKesson President Sunny Sanyal (II)

Anthony Guerra — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:48:33 +0000

Evaluated on a revenue basis, they don’t get any bigger in the healthcare IT space than McKesson Provider Technologies. So when the President of that division speaks, it’s a good idea to listen. As such, healthsystemCIO.com editor Anthony Guerra recently talked with Sunny Sanyal to learn how the market was looking from his unique perch. [...]

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Are You Certified?

Bonnie Siegel — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:21:59 +0000

Is it worth your time, energy and money to pursue professional certification and recognition? Yes, in this competitive work environment all those fancy acronyms after your name on your resume can be helpful in setting you apart from others. Looking at the definition under Professional certification – Wikipedia, it described three types of professional certification: [...]

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One-on-One w/CCHIT Exec. Director Alisa Ray (I)

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 17:59:07 +0000

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One-on-One w/McKesson Provider Pres. Sunny Sanyal

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:02:33 +0000

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One-on-One w/eCW CEO Girish Kumar Navani (I)

Anthony Guerra — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:23:15 +0000

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CIOs coming together to solve major HIT problems

Russ Branzell — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:12:47 +0000

Never in the history of the United States is there more at risk relative to the deployment of information technology and specifically health information technology. The very future of our health system is dependent on us (CIOs). There is no more time for competition either individually or organizationally. How much difference can we make united [...]

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One-on-One W/Baylor CIO David Muntz (III)

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:33:03 +0000

As chair of the CHIME Advocacy Leadership Team, David Muntz is as plugged into the Meaningful Use saga as any non-government employee can be. And to hear him tell it, the interim final definition of MU needs to be significantly tempered if the majority of healthcare organizations are to have the slightest shot at qualifying [...]

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Big Pharma Invests in PGx – But What About the User?

Gerry Higgins — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:54:47 +0000

PGx is an abbreviation for Pharmacogenomics or Pharmacogenetics. Although those “in the know”, in the large drug companies, now just call it “PG”. Today was the first day of the ‘5th Workshop: Regulatory Decision Making’, sponsored by the FDA and the DIA (Drug Information Association), held in Rockville, MD. The crowd was about 300 attendees, [...]

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Adoption of the EHR in Physician Office Settings

Gerry Higgins — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:02:48 +0000

Conventional wisdom suggests that physician-based office practices have been slow to adopt Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. According to a survey from 2007, the biggest barriers to adoption include the cost of initial capitalization (84% of respondents), start-up financial costs ongoing financial costs (82%), and loss of productivity (81%) for physician office settings (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2215070/?report=abstract). There [...]

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One-on-One With Baylor CIO David Muntz (I)

Anthony Guerra — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 19:57:19 +0000

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Seeking a “Meaningful” IT Relationship?

Marc Holland — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:02:00 +0000

Hospitals, let alone eligible providers, seeking to qualify for HITECH incentives have a steep hill to climb, even those with EMRs that are operational or in advanced stages of implementation. Why? One need only look at some recent survey data. On January 4, 2010, Computer Sciences Corporation released the results of a survey of 58 [...]

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CCHIT Stays in Step with Interim Regulation

Anthony Guerra — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 13:48:48 +0000

Both CCHIT’s Comprehensive and Modular EHR certification programs will be updated to conform to the Meaningful Use Interim Final Rule, and applications for certification will open on the rule’s effective date of Feb. 12, according to the organization. CCHIT says approximately 12 vendors that had already achieved certification under its latest programs will be offered [...]

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Feds Enable Genome-based EHR

Gerry Higgins — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:41:01 +0000

Although not mentioned as one of the ‘Meaningful Use’ or ‘Initial Set of Standards and Certification Criteria’ for a Certified or Complete Electronic Health Record (see http://healthit.hhs.gov/blog/onc/), a new federal guideline to enable the use of personal genomic data in EHRs is being developed, according to sources within HHS. The U.S. Veterans Affairs Department (VA), [...]

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FDA Expands Gene Testing for Drug Prescription

Gerry Higgins — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:11:27 +0000

“The FDA considers both unwanted harmful effects and lack of efficacy to be adverse events. When considering candidates for pharmacogenomic relabeling, the FDA evaluates the severity of the adverse reaction, the degree to which genetics predicts the reaction, and the total number of individuals likely to be affected. These factors are important in assessing the [...]

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One-on-One w/MedStar Health’s Gerry Higgins – Part 2

Anthony Guerra — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:12:22 +0000

Gerald Higgins, PhD., MBA, MS, is not your typical CIO — that’s because Higgins is a chief innovation officer. Getting paid not to carry out EMR implementations or persuade physicians to embrace CPOE, Higgins is remunerated to “see what’s happening one or two hills over the horizon.” With a dizzying array of jobs and accomplishments [...]

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CHIME Highlights MU Concerns W/Eye to Commenting

Anthony Guerra — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:55:22 +0000

The next few weeks offer an important opportunity for CIOs to digest the implications of meaningful use, as defined in CMS/ONC’s interim final regulation (IFR), and prepare comments that may ultimately shape its final form, according to panelists on a recently held CHIME members-only Webinar. Among the most troubling items in the IFR are: Ineligible [...]

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Despite Regulatory Haze, CCHIT Marches On

Anthony Guerra — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 17:51:10 +0000

CCHIT has certified 14 products under its two new programs — CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive and Preliminary ARRA 2011. The CCHIT Certified 2011 Comprehensive program differs from the Preliminary ARRA certification program by providing a more rigorous inspection of integrated EHR functionality, interoperability, and security in addition to full compliance with federal standards, according to [...]

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CHIME Concerned About Meaningful Use Definition

Anthony Guerra — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:44:27 +0000

Reporting, product certification and implementation deadlines represent major concerns that could affect efforts to implement EHRs under HITECH, according to CHIME. CHIME’s initial analysis of the provisions favors the phased approach used to measure the meaningful use of EHRs. “Through the phased approach, first-year meaningful use criteria will apply to hospitals whenever they are eligible. [...]

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