Not so meaningful for some - Modern Healthcare

As healthcare providers digest HHS' “meaningful use” regulations, the rural health community expressed concern last week that the definition lacks clarity for critical-access hospitals. Meanwhile, a coalition of rural and health information technology leaders offered recommendations to help rural providers manage perhaps an even greater problem: health IT workforce challenges.

Not so meaningful for some - Modern Healthcare

Connecticut AG Files First HITECH Act Suit : Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

The case marks the first action by a state attorney general under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (“HITECH”) Act to enforce provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (“HIPAA”). The suit also alleges a violation of Connecticut’s breach notification statute.

Connecticut AG Files First HITECH Act Suit : Privacy & Information Security Law Blog

A RAC Primer for LTC Facilities

HIM professionals working in long-term care facilities need to understand the basics of the program in order to ensure their facilities receive the appropriate payment and successfully manage a RAC audit.

A RAC Primer for LTC Facilities

Social Media Metrics

Social media—the most popular are blogs, wikis, social network sites, and microblogging—offer both opportunities and difficulties in the establishment of metrics: Social media adds a level of qualitative information to the quantitative data traditionally made available through web analytics. However, the quantitative information is often restricted and not easily comparable among sites.  (Online Magazine, Nov-Dec 2009)

FEATURE: Social Media Metrics

Guest Article: Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records | The Healthcare IT Guy

thoughts about why physicians aren’t in love with EMRs

Guest Article: Why Doctors Hate Electronic Medical Records | The Healthcare IT Guy

Librarian competencies 2009

WebJunction - Competencies

Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding

Grantsmanship: Information Resources to Help Researchers Get Funding

Federal Telemedicine News: Nebraska Implementing HIE

NeHII uses a hybrid federated model allowing for information to be stored on multiple databases on the back end. This model allows for better data storage and improved performance. Over the next few years, the HIE will be rolled out across the state and will ultimately become part of the Nationwide health Information Network.

Federal Telemedicine News: Nebraska Implementing HIE

The Health Care Blog: PHRs, The Model T, Meaningful Use and the Patient-Centric HIT Revolution

includes testimony delivered before the NCVHS subcommittee hearing on PHRs

The Health Care Blog: PHRs, The Model T, Meaningful Use and the Patient-Centric HIT Revolution

Curing Healthcare: Patient-Centered Medical Home: Gaining Traction

After seeing many good ideas evaporate due to lack of will and competing interests, I'm encouraged that strategies such as the patient-centered medical home are finally gaining real traction.

Curing Healthcare: Patient-Centered Medical Home: Gaining Traction

Essential Social Media Tools: Part 1- Blogs

Essential Social Media Tools: Part 1- Blogs

Perkins Coie - News / Publications - Security Breach Notification: State Laws Chart

This chart provides information regarding security breach notification legislation which has been enacted in U.S. jurisdictions. The pioneering statute on this issue, California's Security Breach Notification Act (Senate Bill No. 1386), is used as the baseline for comparisons herein.

Perkins Coie - News / Publications - Security Breach Notification: State Laws Chart

Health Law Information Project Assesses Legal Barriers to Using Health Information to Improve Health Care Quality and Reduce Disparities - Grant Results Reports - RWJF

Health Law Information Project Assesses Legal Barriers to Using Health Information to Improve Health Care Quality and Reduce Disparities - Grant Results Reports - RWJF

articles in New York Post

Health Information Manager profile

PROGNOSIS: JOB-HEAVY - New York Post

Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative Library: Home

"a wide range of interprofessional resources such as curricula, how-to materials, references, research & evaluation instruments, and other communications material"

CIHC Library: Home

Patient-centered medical home - PCMH

IBM has released a new study, "Patient Centered Medical Home: What, Why and How?

IBM - Patient-centered medical home - PCMH

Achieving Health Care Reform -- How Physicians Can Help

Prespectives column in the NEJM


NEJM -- Achieving Health Care Reform -- How Physicians Can Help

AOA Accreditation Manual Updates

Revisions, Additions and Deletions of Standards, September 2007

http://www.hfap.org/index.cfm?PageID=acc_hfaprevman0806

eHealth Initiative Survey Finds Consensus Among HIT Stakeholders on Plans for Regional Extension Centers

Health information technology regional extension centers should be designed with local needs in mind and focus on providing implementation and technical assistance to clinicians, according to a new survey released by the eHealth Initiative.

eHealth Initiative > News

A Historic Opportunity: Wedding Health Information Technology to Care Delivery Innovation and Provider Payment Reform

if this new health IT investment program is wedded to a strong commitment to provider payment reform in forthcoming health care reform legislation and implemented specifically as an accelerator of health care delivery innovation and payment reform, then the investment program can help transform U.S. health care as we know it.

A Historic Opportunity: Wedding Health Information Technology to Care Delivery Innovation and Provider Payment Reform