As part of the "sandwich generation" I serve as healthcare navigator to my parents and life coach to my daughter. My parents live in Southern California, 4000 miles away from Boston.
Life as a Health Care CIO
Value cases for clinical documentation improvement
As BIDMC prepares for ICD10, we’re examining the entire clinical documentation process and asking how best to leverage the work we must do to support ICD10 with the innovations we believe will transform our workflow.
Creating a mature security program
Interoperability gets real
For years, patients, providers and payers have complained that EHRs "do not talk to each other"
By 2014, I expect this issue to disappear.
Why?
Electronic health record safety
Chief Information Officer for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, records his experiences with infrastructure, applications, policies, management and governance.
On December 21, 2012, ONC issued its Health IT Patient Safety Action & Surveillance Plan for public comment
The January 2013 HIT standards committee meeting
Modifications to the HIPAA privacy, security, enforcement, and breach notification rules
On January 17, HHS released the Final Rule entitled: Modifications to the HIPAA Privacy, Security, Enforcement, and Breach Notification Rules under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act; Other Modifications to the HIPAA Rules.
It’s 563 pages long and contains 7 themes:
Brainstorming about the future of clinical documentation
In 2013, I’m focusing on 5 major work streams:
*Meaningful Use Stage 2, including Electronic Medication Administration Records
*ICD10, including clinical documentation improvement and computer assisted coding
*Replacement of all Laboratory Information Systems
*Compliance/Regulatory priorities, including security program maturity
*Supporting the IT needs of our evolving Accountable Care Organization including analytics for care management
2012 in review | Life as a Healthcare CIO
It’s the time of year that many writers reflect on the major events of the past 365 days. I’ll let the journalists cover the impact of the election, the epidemic of senseless violence, and the scandals of infidelity.
To me, there were 5 major healthcare IT events in 2012 that we need to recognize and celebrate:
Crafting the security roadmap
Per the theme of security assessment I’ve been posting about, part of crafting a multi-year security roadmap is examining technologies and practices that have limited use in healthcare but are widely deployed in other industries.
The December HIT standards committee meeting
The December HIT Standards Committee focused on the reality of implementing the Meaningful Use Stage 2 Standards and Certification rule in the real world of hospitals, clinician offices, and healthcare information exchanges.