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EHR & EMR

 - Inquisitive EMR Patient Record HIE

The Office of the National Coordinator on Health IT (ONC) revoked the certification of two EHR products and announced on April 25 that they no longer meet the requirements of Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive programs.

 - Congress, House, Senate

Six Republican senators have published a report critical of progress in the Meaningful Use program and called for a halt to the program and re-examination of its strategies.

 - Smiling Faces of Children

Children’s hospitals have achieved substantial gains in health IT implementation, according to findings published online April 15 in Pediatrics.

 - Money wrapped in ethernet cable

Audits of the Meaningful Use/EHR incentive program have caused “a lot of panic,” says Elizabeth Holland, director of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ HIT Initiatives Group. Holland spoke with Clinical Innovation + Technology about upcoming plans for the program.

 - time

NEW ORLEANS—A hierarchical task analysis of EHR use looked at component usage, non-verbal communication, verbal analysis and time-at-task profiling. Alan Calvitti, PhD, data visualization expert worked with the VA’s San Diego Healthcare System, presented the results of the project during an educational session at the Health Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) annual convention.