5 Steps to EHR Incentive Payments
Jim Tate’s article in Medical Economics For 85 years, Medical Economics has been a leading business resource for office-based physicians as they try to successfully…
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Meaningful Use Core Measure 15
MU Live! Turns to Meaningful Use Core Measure 15 We’re finishing up our second month of hosting MU Live!, our bi-monthly 30 minute webcast that…
Meaningful Use and Patient Electronic Access for EPs
Meaningful Use and the Patient Portal Some, but not all EHRs include the integrated presence of a patient portal to enable patients electronic access to…
Medicaid Eligibility and Patient Volumes
Medicaid Eligibility for EHR Incentive Program If eligible professionals qualify for both the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive programs, they must choose which one to…
Meaningful Use: Clinical Summaries
Let’s Summarize Clinical Summaries for Meaningful Use One of the most mis-understood Meaningful Use core measures for Eligible Professionals is the objective to: “Provide clinical summaries…
CMS National Provider Call on EP Basics
CMS is conducting a call on the EHR Incentive Program basics for Eligible Professionals (EPs). You must register for the calls to get the access…
CMS proposes rules for attesting of quality measures
Meaningful Use and Attesting to Quality Measures CMS throws us another bone and we’re grateful One of the most intriguing aspects of the entire CMS…
Meaningful Use Core Measure
Exchange of Clinical Information for Meaningful Use Last month I posted on the confusion around the meaningful use Core Measure that requires the “capability to…
Meaningful Use Measure & HIPAA
Meaningful Use Measure: HIPAA Security Risk Analysis Let’s don’t get too complicated. I keep getting lots of inquires from physicians and EHR vendors about meeting…