Posts Tagged ‘meaningful use’
10th Annual Iowa eHealth Summit
Crystal Kallem, Lantana’s Executive Director of Analysis & Policy will attend the 10th Annual Iowa eHealth Summit. She will present “Quality Reporting Under Meaningful Use Stage 2” on June 25th in Breakout #3 starting at 3:00 PM.
Read MoreProposed Delays to 2014 Meaningful Use Timeline & and Changes to Certified Electronic Health Care Technology (CEHRT). How will you be affected?
Today, CMS announced proposed changes to Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record incentive program timeline for 2014 and revisions to the CEHRT definition. As a courtesy, Lantana put this summary…
Read MoreProposed Voluntary Certification for Long-term and Post-acute Care (LTPAC) Providers
The Health IT Policy Committee’s Certification and Adoption Workgroup recently held a virtual hearing on a proposed long-term and post-acute care (LTPAC) certification program.
Read MoreConformance Drift in Consolidated CDA R2; Part Two of Three
The HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Release 2 ballot received an unprecedented 1,000+ comments. A number of those comments include proposals to tighten various constraints within the document. Here are some arguments towards constraint tightening.
Read MoreConformance Drift in Consolidated CDA R2; Part One of Three
The HL7 Consolidated Clinical Document Architecture (C-CDA) Release 2 ballot received an unprecedented 1,000+ comments. A number of those comments include proposals to tighten various constraints within the document. Although tightened constraints sometimes are necessary, they may also represent bad spec design in the form of a “conformance drift,” a situation in which increasingly restrictive conformance verbs are applied to truly optional elements thus idealizing one implementation of the spec to the exclusion of others.
Read MoreReady for Write-Enabled Trifolia Workbench?
Lantana will soon release an enhanced, write-enabled version of the Trifolia Workbench: HL7 Web Edition for HL7 Members. Trifolia Workbench is a web-based standards development tool that supports designers, developers and implementers in capturing and managing HL7 RIM-based templates, such as the Clinical Document Architecture (CDA) and the Healthcare Quality Measure Format (HQMF/eMeasure).
Read MorePublic Webinar This Week: Role of Standards in Quality Measurement
Crystal Kallem, RHIA, CPHQ, will review the current state and vision for quality measurement and the role of foundational quality specifications that are requirements in Meaningful Use Stage 2.
Read MoreCDA Academy Hat Visits Machu Picchu
CDA Academy Alumnus, David Swiezy, Allscripts, took his CDA Academy hat along on several adventures—to Machu Picchu in Peru and to the Galapagos Islands.
Read MoreJoin the Ballot Pool for C-CDA (by Monday)
As part of the ongoing effort to enable more consistent and accurate clinical data exchange, the HL7 Implementation Guide for CDA® Release 2: Consolidated CDA Templates for Clinical Notes (US Realm) Draft Standard for Trial Use Release 2 continues to build on the library of CDA R2 templates consolidated within the first release.
Read MoreAccelerating Health Information Exchange: Highlight from ONC/CMS Webinar
I recently dialed in for a webinar on Accelerating Health Information Exchange hosted by both the Office of the National Coordinator for HHS (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS). The government had received over 200 public comment submissions on policies that can strengthen the business case for exchanging information across providers seamlessly and securely. Here are some takeaways from the webinar.
Read MoreWhere’s Your Hat?
Each student who attends our CDA Academy workshop receives a super soft, unstructured, eco-friendly, bamboo and cotton blend, red hat with white CDA Academy logo. We’ve been handing out the same popular hat for the past eight workshops…
Read MoreUpdated C-CDA and QRDA Specs Now Available
The updates address errata approved by the HL7 Structured Document Work Group. Both draft standards for trial use are referenced in the Certification Criteria for Meaningful Use Stage 2…
Read MoreAcademy IV: Almost here…
The source for comprehensive training in the core specifications required for Meaningful Use, the CDA Academy, comes around again in Academy IV, now enhanced with a track for policy makers and planners.
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