Welcome to HITECH Answers

 

HITECH Answers provides independent analysis on the many facets of the HITECH Act impacting implementation of an EHR meeting meaningful use requirements. Some information on this site is public. Our premium content is through a subscription to a library of webinars and resources.

 

HITECH Answers is a leading, independent resource for providing education on the HITECH Act. Sign-up today to receive our newsletter and HITECH e-mail alerts. Join our Meaningful Use Answers group on LinkedIn.

 

EHR Checklist

 

 

 

 

Download this Meaningful Use criteria checklist for Stage 1. Compare and contrast up to 5 EHRs.

 

 

 

 Our latest HITECH Updates:

 

Friday at Five – 7/30/10

July 30, 2010

Join us every Friday at Five for our weekly top 5 favorites in the world of HIT and HITECH. This week we are highlighting five HIPAA resources we think will help you keep up with the ever changing HIPAA compliance.

Information Law Group – This informative site recently published a two-part FAQ on the proposed modifications [...]

Read more →

Final Rules Published

July 29, 2010

The CMS and ONC final rules were released last week and published in the federal register yesterday, July 28th. The CMS final rule defines meaningful use and the incentive programs to pay meaningful users of certified EHR systems. The ONC final rule supports the meaningful use definitions with an adopted set of initial standards, implementation specifications, and certification [...]

Read more →

EmpowHER’s 1000 Women Campaign

July 29, 2010

Every once in a while, we take a post-break from the HITECH Act, meaningful use, HIPAA and other HIT related issues to focus attention on topics near and dear to our hearts.
1000Women is a campaign on a mission to raise awareness of women’s health.  Organized  by EmpowHER, the campaign is recruiting 1,000 women to tell and recruit another 1,000 women [...]

Read more →

HIPAA Resources to Help Stay Informed

July 28, 2010

A key role at HITECH Answers is to monitor breaking news and information on the subject matters we cover.  The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)  is one such topic.  More specifically, we keep our readers and members up to date on the timelines and release of regulations impacting HIPAA as it relates to the HITECH [...]

Read more →

HIPAA Business Associates and now Subcontractors – A Big Heads Up!

July 27, 2010

Bob Chaput is president of HITECH Security Advisors LLC and Data Mountain LLC and a contributing expert to HITECH Answers.
Whew!  Nothing like a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) from Health and Human Services (HHS) to send the HIPAA compliance blogosphere into a near “brown out “ and hatch a new crop of self-proclaimed HIPAA [...]

Read more →

Meaningful Use Objectives and Measures Webinar

July 26, 2010

The CMS final rule on defining meaningful use, clinical quality objectives and measures, and descriptions of incentive programs has been released. The rule is expected to be published in the Federal Registry this week. Our newest series of webinars will cover this rule along with the supporting final rule from ONC on the initial set [...]

Read more →

Friday at Five – 7/23/10

July 23, 2010

Join us every Friday at Five for our weekly top 5 favorites in the world of HIT and HITECH. This week we are highlighting five resource web sites we think you should have on your favorites list. If you have anything to do with Health IT and the HITECH Act you can’t do without these [...]

Read more →

Recovery Room 7/22/10

July 22, 2010

While all are attention has been on the final rule release, the world has continued to go on. Here are a few things that you might have missed.
This week, ONC David Blumenthal and Director of CMS’ Office of e-Health Standards and Services Tony Trenkle, appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee to testify on [...]

Read more →

Download an EHR Criteria Checklist

July 21, 2010

Now that the Stage 1 meaningful use final rules have been published, the objectives and measures have been set. Eligible Professionals must become meaningful users of certified EHR systems to qualify for incentive payments through CMS. In your search for an EHR, the way it incorporates the required objectives and measures needs to be a [...]

Read more →

Healthcare.gov

July 20, 2010

On March 23, 2010 the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law. One of the provisions in the law was a mandate for HHS to make available, comparison insurance information to consumers on the web by July 1, 2010. On July 1, 2010, HHS launched healthcare.gov specifically to help the consumer navigate [...]

Read more →

← Previous Entries