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We are thought leaders in health information technology.
And as thought leaders in health information technology (HIT), Shared Health®’s executives and partners are often asked to speak and offer insight at industry events and other media forums.
Dr. Bruce Taffel of Shared Health weighs in on Medicaid EMR guidelines in American Medical News
By: Chris Silva amednews.com Date: August. 30, 2010
Washington – The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has published details for state Medicaid directors on what they should expect from the federal government as they administer the Medicaid portion of the electronic medical records incentive program starting in 2011.
Growing Health Information Exchanges Show Lower Costs, Better Care
By: Elizabeth Horwitt SearchHealthIT.com Date: November, 2009
Five years ago, the state of Tennessee and BlueCross BlueShield formed a partnership whose mission was to rein in rising health care costs, particularly within the state’s Medicaid plan. The resulting program, operated by Shared Health Inc., focused on the inefficient and error-prone methods by which physicians accessed and shared patient medical data...
Carrot, meet stick.
Digitizing Paper Processes Won't Improve Outcomes
By: Carrie Vaughan HealthLeaders Media Date: Sept. 29, 2009
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Digitizing Paper Processes Won't Improve Outcomes: Jana Skewes, the CEO of Shared Health, discusses the role of health information exchanges in reducing costs and improving healthcare outcomes. Shared Health manages the data of more than 2.6 million patients in Tennessee and has more than 2,500 clinical users. Recently, it was awarded the State of Mississippi's Medicaid contract for health information exchange for some 600,000 Medicaid beneficiaries.
Tennessee HIE to provide EHR and e-prescribing to Mississippi Medicaid beneficiaries
By Patty Enrado Date: Sept.15, 2009
This December, Shared Health will begin rolling out a solution that will give Mississippi Medicaid providers a Web-based electronic health record (EHR) system and e-prescribing capability for the state’s nearly 600,000 Medicaid members...
Dr. Bruce Taffel Quoted on American Medical News Website
AMA News Date: Aug. 31, 2009
Bruce H. Taffel, M.D., Shared Health's Chief Medical Officer, was quoted in an article on www.amednews.com concerning the recently announced Health & Human Services' regional Health Information Technology Centers.
Dr. Bruce Taffel interview re: Biden announcement of ARRA funds
XM Radio ReachMD Date: Aug. 31, 2009
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Dr. Taffel: The key is the regional centers are going to provide physicians at all segments, from small to large, with information about products, the rules around accessing federal money for meaningful use, and on workflow in the office that can prepare the office appropriately for the implementation of an electronic health record, or the appropriate module that may achieve meaningful use.
So, it turns out to be a really complex area because the federal government is moving very quickly and the states are moving very quickly and these regional centers will be able to answer the questions, make some sense to all the segments including all the small practice environment, and really help them think through the appropriate decision making process.
Guidelines on EHR Meaningful Use Moving Forward article quotes Jana Skewes
By: Chris Silva AMA News Date: Aug. 3, 2009
The recommendations, which will help determine who receives federal stimulus funding, have been revised from an initial draft.
Washington -- The Obama administration's national health information technology coordinator has approved recommended definitions for what constitutes "meaningful use" of electronic health records, about a month after asking a key working group to revise its initial recommendations.
Jana Skewes radio interview re: meaningful use definitions
XM Radio ReachMD Date: Aug. 3, 2009
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Jana Skewes: I’d start first with the doctors that are looking to purchases an electronic health record and I would say there is enough opportunity coming through from the federal stimulus dollars and enough guidance coming through around what will work for physicians in terms of securing some of these grant dollars that it’s time now for them to push their vendors, talk to their vendors about certain capabilities.
And those capabilities are things such as: Can their electronic medical record share data across practices? Can the electronic medical record report quality information? Can the electronic medical record be available to their patients?
Because the federal government has given some very specific guidelines, called meaningful use, that if a physician meets those guidelines they can receive funding from the government.
Healthcare Providers See Certainty on Meaningful Use
By: Mary Mosquera Government Health IT Date: July 20, 2009
The requirements for what health IT users need to do to meet the meaningful use dictates of the stimulus law are now clearer, with the focus apparently swinging to how the IT certification process will handle them. Healthcare providers finally have some certainty about what they need to do to be meaningful users of health IT, said Dr. Bruce Taffel, chief medical officer of SharedHealth, an healthcare information exchange and application provider.
A Shot in the Arm for ePrescribing
By: Dr. Bruce Taffel Tennessee Medicine Date: Oct.16, 2008
E-prescribing, like so many other health technology tools, seems ever on the verge of mass adoption by clinicians. We all know its advertised benefits – access to clinical decision support, interaction alerts, reduced callbacks, streamlined prescription
Leveraging information to place physicians in control
By: Dr. Bruce Taffel Tennessee Medicine Date: July 23, 2008
As an industry, health care defies all the rules of rational economics – buyers and sellers are disconnected, the “product” cannot be commoditized and the information that determines an efficient market is often absent or incomplete. We’ve exhausted whatever benefits can be gleaned from traditional business remedies like cost containment; any further gains must come from improved processes and outcomes, driven by better information delivered at the point of care.
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