CMS EHR Incentive Audits 2.0
Importance of Mock Audits – Focus on Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) have made…
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A 4-Step Approach to Interoperability
Real-Time Data Must Simultaneously be Pushed and Pulled in the Right Ways By Brian Ahier, Director of standards and government affairs, and Ashish Shah, Chief…
Interactive Tool to Help Providers Understand 2014 CEHRT NPRM
EHR Certification Notice of Proposed Rulemaking The following is correspondence from CMS and ONC. In May 2014, CMS released a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM)…
CCHIT Announces New Guide Services
Services Offer to Health IT Developers Chicago, IL – CCHIT launched a new service that provides direct counsel to health IT developers on how to…
Why Disaster Recovery is Important for Healthcare Data
Practices Must Implement Contingency Plans By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity Not only are electronic health records an essential part of new government…
Meaningful Use – State of Confusion
If you’ve started down the path of MU Stage 2 reporting keep moving By Wendy Whitmore Last week, 4Medapproved presented a Learning Lunch Webinar entitled:…
Top Four Challenges for Connected Medical Practices
Connectivity is the Buzzword By Edward Keiper, President and CEO of Velocity For physicians’ practices in the 21st century, connectivity is the buzzword. Getting doctors connected…
A Call To Action for a Nationwide Interoperable Health IT Infrastructure
New ONC Paper Released By Karen B. DeSalvo, MD, MPH, MSc Today we are pleased to release Connecting Health and Care for the Nation: A…
Understanding the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception
Applying for a Meaningful Use Hardship Exception By Joy Rios, Partner at Practice Transformation Twitter: @askjoyrios What is the Meaningful Use Hardship Exception? Penalties for…