Meaningful Use Essentials: Your First 2 Years - Softcover

Dreyer, Jonathon L.; Dreyer, Dr. Keith J.

9780615750705: Meaningful Use Essentials: Your First 2 Years

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0615750702 ISBN 13: 9780615750705

Publisher: RMU Press, 2013

Are you preparing for, or actively participating in, your first two years of meaningful use? Are you familiar with program updates that impact Stage 1 and know what’s coming in Stage 2? Do you have policies in place to support your strategy?

When you're tackling meaningful use and need a quick answer, Meaningful Use Essentials: Your First 2 Years delivers. This handy, concise book provides all of the essential information you need to get through your first years of MU program participation. Ideal for everyone involved in the management and delivery of health care—ranging from physicians to practice administrators, IT leads and CIOs, to healthcare IT vendors, and others—this guide delivers key concepts and pertinent information when they’re needed most.

This is the definitive resource to reach for when it comes to your first 2 years of meaningful use. It's an easy-to-use reference that outlines required Stage 1 activities, offers policy guidance, breaks down workload reduction opportunities, explains changes to the program, and prepares you for what’s to come in Stage 2 Meaningful Use.

An ideal on-the-job reference.

Praise for the guide

“This is very valuable reading for anyone in their first two years of meaningful use—it effectively outlines required Stage 1 activities, offers policy guidance, breaks down EP workload reduction opportunities, and explains how the Stage 2 Final Rules impact Stage 1.”

David Blumenthal, MD, MPP
Former National Coordinator for HIT, ONC, Department of Health and Human Services

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About the Author:

Jonathon L. Dreyer is a senior health care marketing professional in Boston, Massachusetts. His deep understanding of medical imaging technology and healthcare IT has contributed to the development and successful deployment of technology across a number of health care verticals. He has authored several articles on clinical decision support, radiology reporting, speech recognition, business intelligence, electronic health records, meaningful use, and mHealth, and is an active blogger and contributor to standards and interoperability projects. Keith J. Dreyer, DO, PhD, FACR, FSIIM is the Vice Chairman of Radiology Informatics at Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Radiology at the Harvard Medical School. He is a Diagnostic Radiologist, certified by the American Board of Radiology with a PhD in Computer Science. Dr. Dreyer holds, and has held, numerous board and committee positions with the ACR, RSNA, SIIM, and other national medical societies, and has authored numerous scientific papers, articles, and books, as well as lectures worldwide on digital imaging, medical informatics, clinical language understanding, and electronic health records.

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