Health IT Media Follows Stage 3 Meaningful Use
More Comment Letters on Stage 3 Meaningful Use A good number of health IT news media outlets and bloggers have been reporting on the comment…
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NIST Looks to Test Security of Health Information Exchange
NIST Secure Exchange of Electronic Health Information Demonstration Project The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory federal agency that operates as…
Attestation Deadline for 2012 Medicare EHR Incentive Program
February 28, 2013 Deadline for Attestation For those Eligible Professionals (EPs) participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program, 2012 would have been…
Leading Organizations Comment On Stage 3 Meaningful Use
Comments On Stage 3 Meaningful Use Yesterday the American Medical Association (AMA), the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the American Hospital Association (AHA) and the…
CMS Releases Meaningful Use Tipsheet for Specialists
Reviews Meaningful Use Exclusions and Exemptions On Monday the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) released an updated tipsheet to help provider specialists understand…
ONC and CMS Host Upcoming Events on HIE and Meaningful Use
Mark your calendars for these ONC and CMS events HIE Governance Town Halls – February 14, 2013, 3:00 – 4:30pm ET. National eHealth Collaborative (NeHC)…
CMS Seeks Comments On Reporting of CQMs by Hospitals
Looks to Align CQMs and EHRs CMS is seeking public comment on hospital readiness to use EHRs in submitting reports on clinical quality measures (CQMs)….
HIEs Need To Deliver Clear Value
HIE in 2013: Climbing past the low-hanging fruit Unlike western and central Pennsylvania, providers in greater Philadelphia are not linked by a health information exchange,…
KMPG Poll Looks At Health System Confidence in Meeting Meaningful Use
Training, Change Management Biggest Hurdles Business leaders at hospitals and health systems are only somewhat confident in their organization’s level of readiness to meet meaningful…