Advice to the New National Coordinator
Fragile Times Now That HITECH Funding Has Passed By John Halamka, MD Karen DeSalvo started as the new National Coordinator for Healthcare Information Technology on…
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Meaningful Delay?
Not a Time to Put Things on Hold By Van Zimmerman @DataMotion On December 6, the Centers for Medicate & Medicaid Services (CMS), through a blog…
CCHIT Exiting ONC Certification Business
CCHIT No Longer Accepting Certification Applications In a letter to their customers, Alisa Ray, Executive Director of CCHIT announced a change in their strategic direction. Effective…
Attestation Deadline for EHR Incentive Programs
Medicare EPs Must Attest by February 28th The following is correspondence from CMS on the EHR Incenitvie Programs. If you are an eligible professional (EP),…
Stage 2 MU Patient Engagement Validation May Cause Audit Issues
2014: CMS EHR Incentive Audit Risk – Patient Engagement and Portals By Jim Tate, EMR Advocate Meaningful Use Audit Expert Twitter: @JimTate, eMail: audits@emradvocate.com EHR…
Social Media at HIMSS14
At HIMSS 2014: How Important is Social Media? In preparation for HIMSS 2014 (February 24-27), Schwartz MSL surveyed healthcare IT influencers attending the conference to…
Beacon Communities Learning Guides
Lessons Learned from Beacon Communities The 17 ONC-funded Beacon Communities have compiled and synthesized their lessons learned from building health IT infrastructure, driving population health…
CMS and ONC Propose New Timeline for EHR Incentive Program
Industry Reacts to Proposed Changes In a joint statement from CMS and ONC last Friday, they laid out the proposal for changes to the EHR…
Progress on Adoption of Electronic Health Records
New Data Shows Rapid Adoption of EHRs; Announcements of 2015 Policies Jacob Reider / Acting National Coordinator for Health Information Technology , and Robert Tagalicod…