Organizations pursuing meaningful use incentive dollars must meet a myriad of requirements including the security risk analysis. This session covers a framework for conducting yearly security risk analysis/assessments.

Learn how UMass Memorial developed a comprehensive MU EP strategy and attestation project plan for a physician-centric community and transitioned practices to workflows focused on data entry and collection.

This presentation discusses a framework for managing incentive payments by states participating in the EHR Incentive program while also considering the groundwork for measuring meaningful use demonstrated by their providers.

Though their meaningful use attesting schedules differ, two large hospital networks leverage the emergency EHR to integrate with inpatient systems as an easier strategy to drive compliance and data integration.

Learn how seven Tenet hospitals deployed a certified EHR, attested within 90 days, and leveraged data, tools, and governance to drive process improvement while focusing on Stage 2 and beyond.

An article published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association on Jan. 21, questioned whether the federal governments shift away from regional health information organizations (RHIOs) in favor of information exchange is best for the Nationwide Health Information Network (NwHIN).

GE Healthcare has launched a new web-based patient portal, the Centricity Patient Online 13, which healthcare consumers can use to schedule appointments, pay bills, manage health information, send secure messages and receive reminders from providers.

A total of 385 breaches of protected health information (PHI) affecting over 19 million records have been reported since the August 2009 interim final breach notification regulation was issued as a part of the HITECH Act.