Although 251,000 physicians and other eligible professionals have received more than $2.6 million in payments in stage 1 of CMS’ Electronic Health Record Incentive Program, many physicians deferred ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") yesterday released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking setting forth the "Stage 2" requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health ...
According to HIMSS, meaningful use was the no. 1 priority of hospital information technology departments for 2011, and is likely to continue as a top concern. Meaningful use of certified health ...
Two-thirds of office-based physicians plan to apply or have already applied for meaningful use incentives for using electronic health records (EHRs), a government survey found. However, only about a ...
The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued two final rules in support of the "meaningful use" requirements for the U.S. healthcare IT stimulus plan. One of the two ...
The EHR Incentive Program, often dubbed “Meaningful Use”, has been surrounded by questions and confusion among anesthesiologists and practice administrators since its inception. Currently, the ...
NEW YORK, July 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- With its electronic, patient self-service check-in solution, Phreesia collects comprehensive, up-to-date electronic information from each patient at every visit ...
BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As healthcare providers work to meet the requirements of Meaningful Use, they face numerous IT challenges. These challenges range from the capture and flow of data to and ...
Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...
A collaborative of seven organizations, including the American Hospital Association, American Medical Association, and the Healthcare Information & Management Systems Society, has proposed changes to ...
The MedInformatix RIS, in tandem with its Electronic Health Records (EHR) component, is certified by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of the National Coordinator – ...
One of the most mis-understood Meaningful Use core measures for EPs is the objective to: “Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit”. The required measure threshold for this ...