CMS Provides Interactive Stage 2 Resource on Meaningful Use, CQMs
Updated Toolkit on Stage 2 Meaningful Use, CQMs CMS recently posted a new resource to help eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals…
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Upcoming CMS Important Dates and Deadlines
Information from CMS on Issues Impacting Providers The following is communication from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on current affairs that effect…
HIMSS13: Sequester Will Affect Medicare EHR Pay, ONC Budget
by Kate Ackerman, iHealthBeat Managing Editor NEW ORLEANS — There were nearly 60 education sessions at the Healthcare Information and Management Society’s Annual Conference on…
CMS Launches EHR Incentive Participation Timeline Tool
New EHR Incentive Resource and other CMS Updates The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the Federal agency under the Department of Health…
2013 EHR Incentive Program Changes for Eligible Professionals
EHR Incentive Program Stage 1 Changes and Timing Current final rules published in September for the CMS EHR Incentive program and 2014 stage 2 have also…
CAH Providers Can Now Participate in EHR Incentive Program
CAH Method II Physicians get eligibility to EHR Incentive Program In a letter dated January 9, 2013 from American Hospital Association (AHA) Executive VP Rick…
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)….
The Year That Was Meaningful Use
A Meaningful Year for Meaningful Use It was a big year for meaningful use with the release of Stage 2 MU requirements, Stage 1 meaningful…
Meaningful Use Audits – 4 Questions to Consider
Eligible Providers: Meaningful Use Audits Part II Last week I wrote a blog post entitled The Arrival of Meaningful Use Audits. Part of the confusion…