AHA, AMA: Meaningful Use Requirements Should Be Eased
Last week, the American Hospital Association and the American Medical Association sent a joint letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius asking for greater flexibility in…
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EHRs are for Eye Care Professionals Too
Why Eye Care Professionals should use EHRs and get Connected to each other and to their Patients By Blair Butterfield, President, North America at VitalHealth…
Patient Engagement Through Social Media
Engaging Your Patients Using Social Media Stage 2 of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs will begin in 2014 for those Eligible Professionals (EPs) who have…
ONC Releases Updated Progress Report on Health IT Adoption
ONC Assesses Achievements to date on Five Year Health IT Plan Last week the ONC released a report detailing progress to date on the five…
Clarification With Major Impact: A Safety Net for Meaningful Use Attestation Success
by Naomi Levinthal and Anantachai (Tony) Panjamapirom Republished from iHealthBeat.org Eligible professionals (EPs) and eligible hospitals (EHs) participating in the CMS Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs…
Patient Engagement is an Important Focus of MU Stage 2
What are you doing about Patient Engagement? In a medical practice these days categorizing your patients is common. You have active patients that come to…
EHR Incentive Program Status Report – June
Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of 7/1/2013 The Centers for Medicare…
Lawmakers Look to Expand Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Eligibility
MITECH Act Reintroduced to Expand Medicaid EHR Incentive Program Last week lawmakers reintroduced efforts to expand meaningful use incentive payments to certain clinics and safetey-net providers…
CMS Releases Updated Data on EHR Adoption
Yesterday the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released new data that demonstrate that doctors and hospitals are using electronic health records (EHRs) to provide more…