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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"HITECH"”.
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Business model and strategy analysis for radiologists to use electronic health records (EHR)
… President Obama signed into law a measure, the HITECH Act (part of the stimulus package), that incentivizes healthcare providers to use electronic health records (EHR) in care delivery to improve quality, efficiency, safety, and reduce cost. The meaningful use (MU) program's Stage 1 requirements …
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Does Health Information Technology Improve Hospital Process Measures?
… for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH) incentivizes hospitals to utilize health information technology (HIT), including electronic medical records (EMR) and health information exchange (HIE). Hospitals have responded by increasing the implementation and utilization of these …
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Applying systems thinking to healthcare data cybersecurity
Since the HITECH Act of 2009, adoption of Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems in US healthcare organizations has increased significantly. Along with the rapid increase in usage of EHR, cybercrimes are on the rise as well. Two recent cybercrime cases from early 2015, the Anthem and Premera …
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Causal Pattern Mining in Highly Heterogeneous and Temporal EHRs Data
… reducing the associated costs. The HITECH Act, proposes to spend close to \$30 billion dollars on creating a nationwide repository of electronic Health Records (EHRs). Such a repository would consist of patient attributes such as demographics, laboratories test results, vital …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the National Council on Quality Assurance (NCQA) shows that …
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The Unintended Consequences of the Adoption of Electronic Medical Record Systems on Healthcare Costs
… their EMR systems both outside and during the HITECH Act. I argue that the adoption of EMR systems often has unanticipated and unintended consequences.
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The kinetics and mechanisms of the oxidation and precipitation of iron : the high density sludge (HDS) process
… 0.1 M NaOH or 0.1 M H2SO4 through a custom made Hitech Micro Systems controller. The reactions were carried out at pH levels 6.0, 8.0, 9.0 and 10.0. Three types of materials (recycled solids, natural haematite and natural goethite) at three concentration levels (Cs = 1.0, 0.5 and 0.1) were used …
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Patient Portal Use in a Community Medical Group: A Healthcare Improvement Project
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) to provide stimulus for the provision of electronic access for consumers as a way to improve patient engagement. As described by the act, meaningful use of a tethered personal health record called a patient portal was theorized to improve …
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An enterprise architecture evaluation of the Improving Massachusetts Post-Acute Care Transitions (IMPACT) Program
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) federal funds to create an HIE infrastructure in Massachusetts. MeHI seeks a thorough program evaluation of the IMPACT program. Due to the complex organizational, political, and technological architecture associated with the Post-Acute Care …
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Large-scale consensus clustering and data ownership considerations for medical applications
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) Act's $20 billion incentive for hospitals to install and use Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems. The data being collected presents an excellent opportunity to improve patient care. However, this opportunity is not without its challenges. …
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What Work? Quasi-Experiments in Cybersecurity Policy Interventions
… Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act), Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Section 5 enforcements against Wyndham Hotels, and the New York Department of Financial Services (NY DFS) cybersecurity regulations. I assessed each regulatory intervention as a quasi-experiment, employing …
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Errors and adverse consequences as a result of information technology use in healthcare : an integrated review of the literature
… an integral component of healthcare today. The HITECH Act (2009) and Meaningful Use objectives stand to bring wide-sweeping adoption and implementations of HIT in small, medium and large sized healthcare organizations across the country. Though recent literature has provided evidence for the …
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An Integrative Review of the Literature on Technology Transformation in Healthcare
… (2010) and the meaningful use provisions of the HITECH Act (2009) are moving healthcare toward new patient centered models of care. Uncertainty around the future of reform policies from possible repeal or amendment likely contributes to resistance to transformational change. This may perpetuate …
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A Measurement of Readiness for Tennessee Hospitals to Implement “Meaningful Use” Criteria Resulting from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, 2009
<p>In 2009, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law. This legislation provided for monetary rewards for those acute-care hospitals that meet "meaningful use" computerization and reporting criteria.</p><p>The study used a descriptive, nonexperimental design to answer three …