eHealth Program Milestones for 2014
By Robert Tagalicod Director, Office of E-Health Standards and Services, CMS 2014 will be a big year for CMS eHealth programs— there are key deadlines for…
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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…
Mostashari, CMS Lay Out HIE Long View
By Anthony Brino, Government Health IT As Farzad Mostashari, MD, prepares to leave the ONC, the office and its parent agency, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services,…
Accelerating Health Information Exchange
HHS Releases New Strategy for Accelerating Health Information Exchange Back in March the HHS requested input on a series of potential policy and programmatic changes…
ONC Goes to Washington
ONC Testifies to the Senate and Reports to Congress Well I know, the ONC is already in Washington but they have been spending some time…
Patient Engagement Resources
Patient Engagement: What’s your Plan? We have been highlighting patient engagement this week in our daily posts and on our radio station. Stage 2 of…
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…
CMS Proposed 2014 Physician Fee Schedule Impacts CQM Reporting in Stage 2
Recommends Changes to CQM Reporting in Stage 2 of the Medicare EHR Incentive Program On July 8, 2013, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services…
Better Health Info, Better Health: Announcing ONC’s Certified HIT Mark
Carol Bean / Director, Office of Certification and Testing Peter Garrett / Director, Office of Communications More and more Americans across the country are relying on their…