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CMS should improve its oversight of its electronic health record incentive program, according to a report by the Office of Inspector General released this month. The government watchdog agency faults…
Continue Reading OIG Reports Shortcomings In EHR Incentive Oversight
The OIG is conducting a survey of hospitals who have certified the meaningful use of Electronic Health Record (EHR) Technology, with an emphasis on safeguards that protect the EHR systems…
Continue Reading OIG EHR Questionnaire Focuses on Fraud Safeguards
Two new provisions in the Stage 2 “meaningful use” criteria measure the meaningful use required for provider incentive payments based not simply on the providers’ use of EHR, but on their patients’ use of it.
Continue Reading Patients’ “Meaningful Use” of Electronic Health Information Proposed as Core Measure for Provider Incentive Payments from Feds
We all know how those year-end deadlines sneak up on us and how there never seems to be enough time to get everything done. Well, here’s some welcome news – The…
Continue Reading HIPAA Holidays – 5010 Enforcement and Stage 2 HITECH Compliance Extensions
Think you’re a Meaningful User of EHR? Now you can prove it to CMS and cash in. CMS has opened a web link under which entities who have met the…
Continue Reading Meaningful Users Can Now Attest Online And Qualify For CMS Incentives
Six healthcare advocacy organizations have released an updated 2011 Guide to E-Prescribing, including Meaningful Use criteria under the HITECH Act. The document is a comprehensive guide for …
In a detailed, 46-page letter dated February 25, 2011, the American Medical Association and 38 other medical societies raised serious concerns about the proposed set of requirements for Stage 2 …
Continue Reading AMA, 38 Other Medical Groups Raise Concerns On Stage 2 Meaningful Use Proposals
Early EHR adopters, mark your calendars: CMS will begin accepting registration for participation in the Medicare EHR incentive program beginning January 3, 2010. CMS will post a link to the registration process …
Continue Reading HITECH EMR Incentive Registration Opens January 3, 2011
The virtual "ink" is barely dry on the July 13, 2010 final rule on Stage 1 Meaningful Use criteria, but the federally chartered Health IT Policy Committee is already beginning to …
Continue Reading “We’re going to have to ride our bike and fix it at the same time.”
by Todd Rodriguez, Esquire
In July, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released the much-anticipated final regulations that providers are required to meet in order to receive…
