The Office of the National Coordinator for HIT has released
new meaningful use quick reference grid layouts to ease the
understanding of how Stage 1 and Stage 2 meaningful use objectives and
measures correlate with the 2014 Edition electronic health records
certification criteria.
More information and links to the grids are available here
on ONC’s blog site. The blog starts with a reference to grids released
two years ago--don’t click on that link, but on the 2014 grid links
below it. More
Empower Yourself...Welcome to your future and beyond.... Working together we will build upon our "collective wisdom" to create, for tomorrow, what we can only imagine today...J. Perl, Editor
Other Nursing Informatics & HIT Blogs of Interest
Nursing Informatics & Technology: A Blog for All Levels of Users
News from healthcareitnews.com
mobihealthnews
iHealthBeat
Health information technology improves care and saves lives
AHRQ Research about: * Telemedicine * School Health * Health Maintenance
Ethics and HIT
Challenges...
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
http://jamia.bmj.com/site/icons/amiajnl8946.pdf
- patient safety should trump all other values; corporate concerns about liability and intellectual property ownership may be valid but should not over-ride all other considerations;
- transparency and a commitment to patient safety should govern vendor contracts;
- institutions are duty-bound to provide ethics education to purchasers and users, and should commit publicly to standards of corporate conduct; and
- vendors, system purchasers, and users should encourage and assist in each others’ efforts to adopt best practices.