Oncology EHR

Promoting Quality & Safety in Oncology Electronic Health Records

A meeting place for oncology professionals, practice managers, and vendors interested in promoting EHR adoption.

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Jeff Kan added a blog post
Another resource that might be helpful when analyzing the final EHR meaningful use rule is this chart that compares the interim objectives and measures versus the final language.
July 22
Robert S. Miller, MD added a blog post
How sweet is this? See John Halamka's blog for bookmarked versions of the 864 page Meaningful Use Regulations and the 228 page Certification Standards Rule. Unless of course you would rather read 1000+ PDF pages without a table of contents...
July 19
Jeff Kan replied to Ajithkumar Puthillath's discussion 'Stimulus Package and EHR implementation'
CMS also launched today their official website for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. It's a lot of text, but it's the definitive source for information about the incentive programs. You can see it at the URL below: http://www.cms.go…
June 18
Peter Paul Yu commented on Jeff Kan's blog post 'Volunteers named for CCHIT Oncology workgroup'
ASCO had the vision to create the EHR work group and host the EHR Roundtable just a few years ago, steps that have led to new opportunities to advance cancer care in all of its many aspects through the use of HIT. This has been especially timely in…
June 18

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Jeff Kan

Comparing the interim and final meaningful use rule

Another resource that might be helpful when analyzing the final EHR meaningful use rule is this chart that compares the interim objectives and measures versus the final language.

Posted by Jeff Kan on July 22, 2010 at 10:00am

Robert S. Miller, MD

Bookmarked PDF's of the Meaningful Use & Standards Rules

How sweet is this? See John Halamka's blog for bookmarked versions of the 864 page Meaningful Use Regulations and the 228 page Certification Standards Rule. Unless of course you would rather read 1000… Continue

Posted by Robert S. Miller, MD on July 19, 2010 at 10:16pm

Peter Paul Yu

It's heating up this summer for HIT

In the last 48 hours, CMS released the final rules governing the first stage of MU and CCHIT launched its oncology workgroup. Things are heating up this July.



The ARRA regulations for the incentive program for implementation of meaningful use of HIT were released as 3 documents. The one of greatest interest to oncologists is the Final Rule providing guidance to providers on what they neeed to do to qualfy for the incentive dollars ($44,000 over 5 years per eligible provider par

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Posted by Peter Paul Yu on July 15, 2010 at 9:58pm

Robert S. Miller, MD

Meaningful Use (MU) Regs and Final Certification Standards published today

Big day in the health IT world today – CMS announced the final regulations for “meaningful use” of EHR’s, to allow providers and hospitals to receive Federal incentive dollars for adopting technology under the HITECH Act. ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT) also released the “Initial Set of Standards, Implementation Specifications,

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Posted by Robert S. Miller, MD on July 13, 2010 at 5:58pm

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Tom Poulter

PhD Research Proposal - Oncology EPR systems

Hi All   I work as Head of Information Management & Technology at a leading non-surgical cancer treatment centre in the UK (Clatterbridge Centre for Oncology). We cover a 2.2m population in the n…

Started by Tom Poulter May 3.

Matt Gillman

Capt. “Sully” Sullenberger and the Role of the Checklist in Patient Safety 2 Replies

At the HIMSS meeting last week Capt. Chesley Bernett “Sully” Sullenberger gave the final keynote on the role of the checklist in patient safety.  Here is an excellent Blog on the topic.  I will conta…

Started by Matt Gillman. Last reply by Matt Gillman Apr 6.

Catalin Gabriel Oprea

Disaster Recovery and EHR design

Dear all, I am quite new in this aria and I have 5 very important questions for you as follows. For a national EHR system including all medical areas in a country where broadband Internet is in the…

Started by Catalin Gabriel Oprea Jan 6.

OncologyEHR Administrator

A spreadsheet to help calculate EHR ROI

At ASCO's EHR Symposium Andrew D. McDonald, FACHE a Principal at PhyBus LLC demonstrated a spreadsheet he uses to help calculate return on investment for Electronic Health Records. I have attached th…

Tagged: benefits, practice, savings, ehr, roi

Started by OncologyEHR Administrator Oct. 9, 2009.

 
 
 
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  • Rich Leff
  • Wendy E. Bussard, Pharm.D.
  • Donna V Puleio
  • Scott Herbert, MD
  • Douglas Blayney, M.D.
  • Robert S. Miller, MD

Journal of Oncology Practice

Patient Navigators: Experience in a Community Hospital [Letter to the Editor]

Population-Based Longitudinal Study of Follow-Up Care for Breast Cancer Survivors [Original Contributions]

Anatomy of a Cancer Center Transaction: Part II [Business of the Business]

Practice and Productivity of Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners in Outpatient Oncology Clinics at National Comprehensive Cancer Network Institutions [Original Contributions]

Issues Surrounding Biospecimen Collection and Use in Clinical Trials [Attributes of Exemplary Research]

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