ONC Releases Updated Meaningful Use Attestation Numbers
Meaningful Use Attestation Numbers Through July 31, 2013 The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT along with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid…
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Submitting CQMs in 2013 for EHR Incentive Programs
Learn More About Submitting Quality Data for the EHR Incentive Programs for 2013 The following is correspondence from CMS. Providers must report clinical quality measures…
What Measures Success of an EHR Implementation?
EHR Implementation Completion and Success William A. Hyman Professor Emeritus, Biomedical Engineering Texas A&M University, w-hyman@tamu.edu Read other articles by this author A recent exchange…
The 8 Commandments of Meaningful Use Penalties for EPs
Eligible Professionals, EHR Incentives, Meaningful Use and Penalties We know the mantra well enough by now. “Carrots and Sticks”. Â The CMS EHR Incentive programs are…
CQMs – What You Need To Know
Ask Joy: This Week – Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) If you work in healthcare, you’re tuned to CMS updating the requirements for providers participating in…
STAT! Is Meaningful Use Trouble Under Your Network’s Skin?
Technology Tests for Meaningful Use Payments & HIPAA Compliance COMMENTARY Mike Semel Semel Consulting Every day doctors order labs, X-rays, MRI’s, ultrasounds, biopsies, endoscopies, and…
Questions Around EHR Incentive Payment Audits
EHR Incentive Audits for Medicaid EPs CMS lays it out there as concisely as possible: “Any provider attesting to receive an EHR incentive payment for…
The Summer of EHR Incentive Audits
EHR Incentive Audits Heating Up by Jim Tate Twitter: @JimTate Ah, summer. I love the sound of that word, “summer”. It rolls off the tongue…
Meaningful Use Dropout or Meaningful Use Pause?
Meaningful Use Dropout Rate – Let’s Not Panic Yet Over the past few weeks there have been quite a few articles posted in various EHR…