A total of $36 billion has been allocated to the Department of Health and Human Services for the meaningful-use initiative. This investment is expected to improve patient outcomes and...Sammuel V. Anderegg, Pharm.D.Karl F. Gumpper, Pharm.D., FCCP, BCPS...
This change to the medication administration workflow is nothing new to hospitals, caregivers and solution providers. Prior to Meaningful Use Stage 2 being defined and including this measure, hospitals were undertaking projects to implement bar coding technology at the point of care to enhance patie...
Measuring meaningful use: the healthcare industry is abuzz with questions about what it means to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health record (EHR) technology to be eligible for federal stimulus incentives.(INSIDE IT)(Office of the National Coordinator)...
Why Meaningful Use Matters The article focuses on the impact of meaningful use (MU) on delivering health care in the U.S. while acknowledging the role of health information technology (HIT) and electronic health records (EHRs). It notes the problems in the health ... PP Yu - 《Journal of...
and primary care clinics. Pharmacists must be present at the point of care and make interventions to ensure lifesaving medications are prescribed. While this practice may be common at teaching institutions, it must become standard in all health care settings. Pharmacists can improve patient outcomes...
Healthcare providers that have deployed EHR systems are eligible to receive incentive payments for attesting to meaningful use criteria. Recently, the meaningful use program hasevolved into the Promoting Interoperability Programs, which continue to incentivize the use of certified EHR technology to ...
The term “interoperability” has become so commonplace in healthcare and technology circles that everyone seems to recognize its importance, but defining what it is and where the problems lie can be confusing. If you’ve ever heard the term in seemingly unrelated scenarios and scratched your ...
The Azure Health Bot service is a cloud platform that empowers developers in healthcare organizations to build and deploy compliant virtual health assistants and health bots. These tools take advantage of AI and help healthcare organizations to improve processes and reduce costs. ...
And that all brings us to our EHRs, information exchanges, all other extensions of the effort to digitize more and more of healthcare. We are billions of dollars, several years, and waves of adoption into our commitment to meaningful use, HIEs, and all manner of platforms for billing, cod...
What Is Software Quality? In Webster's dictionary, quality is defined as: "The essential character of something, an inherent or distinguishing character, degree, or grade of excellence." Software quality must be defined in terms that are meaningful to the software's users. What is most importan...