MU stage 3

In Meaningful Use Stage 3, an API could replace the patient portal for some providers

By Jonah Comstock 10:41 am March 23, 2015

Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) released the proposed 2015 certification criteria for EHRs. The standards proposed will be optional through 2017 and mandatory for all...

In-Depth: Providers' inevitable acceptance of patient generated health data

By Brian Dolan 10:56 am March 21, 2014

By Brian Dolan Four years ago a keynote speaker at the American Medical Informatics Association meeting in Washington D.C. made a provocative prediction about the near-future importance of patient generated health data: "I think it's not that bold to say that in five years the kind of things I was showing you are going to put us in a position where the vast majority of information that a doctor...