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Cypress: Meaningful Use Stage 2 Toolkit

Cypress: Meaningful Use Stage 2 Toolkit

Clinical Quality Measure Testing And Certification

16 March 2016
From the ONC Cypress website: Cypress is the rigorous and repeatable testing tool of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) and EHR modules in calculating Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 2 Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs). The...
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Breaking Up (With an EHR) Is Hard to Do

Breaking Up (With an EHR) Is Hard to Do

But experts say not cutting ties leads to a worse fate.

8 March 2016
From the article in For the Record:  "Lack of sufficient vendor support. Workflow inefficiencies. Changing needs. The motivations may vary, but more health care organizations seem to be coming to the same...
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Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste

Toolkit for the Safe Use of Copy and Paste

A toolkit published by the ECRI Institute

4 March 2016
From the ECRI Institute website: "The Partnership for Health IT Patient Safety has established workgroups for in-depth study of health IT events. The issue of copying and pasting health information (e.g., orders,...
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Tips on Open Source EHR Systems in the Safety Net Community

Tips on Open Source EHR Systems in the Safety Net Community

A YouTube video from HRSA

28 February 2011
From the HRSA YouTube Channel: This webinar focuses on open source Electronic Health Records (EHR) for the safety net community. Open Source EHRs are systems that are either free or very low cost to implement. The...
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