$28 Billion Gone Out the HITECH Window
By Donna Cusano - In 2009, the US Congress enacted the HITECH Act, as part of a much broader recovery measure (ARRA or ‘the stimulus’), authorizing the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to...
View ArticleHITECH and Meaningful Use at a Crossroads
By William Hersh MD - It is hard to believe that the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act was passed into law five years ago, in 2009, and at the end of the year,...
View ArticleONC Awards Over $38 Million to Improve Coordinated Health Information Sharing
As part of the Administration’s efforts to create an interoperable learning health system that achieves better care, smarter spending and healthier people, the ONC announced twenty awardees for three...
View ArticleRWJF Report Looks at Transitioning in a Post-HITECH World
The Robert Woods Johnson Foundation has released a new report looking at the state of Health IT in 2015, The report looks at both successes and failures of national health IT initiatives and assesses...
View ArticleDebating HITECH’s Influence on EHR Use
By Steve Spearman - Earlier this summer, the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association (JAMIA) published a paper titled Impact of the HITECH act on physicians’ adoption of electronic...
View ArticleLeveraging Health Information Technology to Achieve the Triple Aim
By Harpreet S. Sood MD, David Bates MD & Aziz Sheikh - The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act of 2009 invested $30 billion to stimulate the adoption and...
View ArticleTime for Reflection on HITECH
With over $37 Billion spent on the EHR Incentive programs, what can we say looking back and what should we do moving forward? The NEJM ask just those questions to six people who we trust to give us...
View ArticleHITECH Retrospective: Glass Half-Full or Half-Empty?
By William Hersh - Last month, the NEJM published a pair of Perspective pieces about the HITECH Act. The first was written by the current and three former Directors of the ONC. The second was written...
View ArticleHIPAA Compliance and the HITECH Act in 2018
By Kayla Matthews - HIPAA compliance is an essential part of running a medical practice. The current incarnation of the HIPAA regulations has been in place since 2003 and they haven’t changed much in...
View ArticleThe EHR Strikes Back!
By William Hersh MD - The last few years have been challenging for the EHR. While the HITECH Act succeeded in transitioning the US healthcare system mostly away from paper, the resulting electronic...
View ArticleHIPAA Chat!
Join our Q&A where we answer your questions on HIPAA. Topics for June event: HHS OCR plans to issue a proposed rule amending the HITECH... The post HIPAA Chat! appeared first on Health IT Answers.
View ArticleHealthcare IT Workforce: Updated Analysis Shows Continued Growth and Opportunity
By William Hersh MD - A new analysis of the healthcare IT workforce indicates that as hospitals and health systems continue to adopt EHRs and other forms of IT, as many as 19,852 to 153,114 more...
View ArticleHIPAA: Open Season for Comments
By Matt Fisher - The Office for Civil Rights is now seeking comments on whether certain aspects of the HIPAA privacy and security rules should be modified. The Request for Information is purely a...
View ArticleAnnual Reflections at the End of 2018
By William Hersh MD - I always use my last posting of the year to this blog to reflect on the year past. As I have noted each year, this blog started at the time of a major transformation for the...
View ArticlePartnering on Core Systems Can Increase Innovation and Profitability
By Zachary Fox - Things have changed since the frenzy of EHR adoption in the years following passage of the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act over 10 years...
View ArticleSafe Harbor Bill
By Art Gross - In our blog earlier last year that provided an overview of 2009’s HITECH Act we discussed how this was designed to promote the use of electronic health records within the healthcare...
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