CMS Adds Resources to Help Providers Prepare for an EHR Incentive Audit
What Providers Need to Know about EHR Incentive Audits The following is a communication sent out today from the Centers of Medicare & Medicaid Services…
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DirectTrust, EHNAC to work with ONC to advance direct exchange of health information
Exemplar HIE Governance Entities Announced In the fall of 2012 the ONC decided that now is not the time for regulations on health information exchange governance. They…
ONC Challenge 2.0 Looks to Accelerate Meaningful Use Goals
Challenge 2.0 Builds on 2012 Year of Meaningful Use At the HIMSS13 annual conference this year the  Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator…
Is new EHR vendor-led coalition looking to replace HIEs?
HIT Policy Committee Questions CommonWell Goals By Diana Manos, Government HealthIT At a meeting of the Health IT Policy Committee on April 3, National Coordinator for Health…
CMS Posts 2014 Meaningful Use Eligible Hospital Clinical Quality Measure Update
Stage 2 CQMs for Eligible Hospitals The following is a communication from the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology In the final…
How Do You Perform An Appropriate Security Risk Analysis?
By Ron Sterling Sterling Solutions The Meaningful Use Measures include a Security Risk Analysis. The Security Risk Analysis evaluates your practice’s compliance with the HIPAA…
Michigan Statewide HIE Expands to Include Health Plans
Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan becomes Qualified Data Sharing Organization with Michigan Health Information Network (MiHIN) Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan (BCBSM) is…
EHR Improvement Act Bill Seeks to Add Participation Exemptions
The EHR Improvement Act Last Thursday, Republican Representative Diane Black of Tennessee introduced a new bill to lift some requirements eligible professionals face to participate…
EHR Incentive Pre-Payment Audits to Impact 5-10% of Participating EPs
Stage 1 EHR Incentive Pre-Payment Audits Begin Last July some eligible professionals (EPs)  that attested to Stage 1 Meaningful Use and received their EHR incentive check began…