Minimize threats to your Meaningful Use documentation “Trust, but verify”. I think that was one of Ronald Reagan’s most famous quotes. Remember him, the star of Bedtime for Bonzo? It is strange that sage advice should rear its head in the Registration and Attestation procedures for the CMS EHR Incentive Programs. Many Eligible Professionals (EPs) [...]
2014: Stage 1 Meaningful Use and Stage 2? I thought as we moved deeper into Stage 1 Meaningful Use (MU) the questions would get easier. This is not always the case. A topic came up this week that drove me all the way back to the Final Rule. That’s right, I had to get a step ladder, [...]
Does Meaningful Use require the physician be the one to enter patient data into a certified EHR? One intriguing Meaningful Use question arrived by email last week. The question boiled down to this: “Does the Eligible Professional have to actually be the one that enters data into their Certified EHR to receive the CMS incentives? [...]
Escape Hatch for Electronic Submission of Clinical Quality Measures for Meaningful Use It is there in black and white on page 68 of the Final Rule “Therefore, for the Medicare EHR incentive program beginning in CY 2012 we proposed that an EP using a certified EHR technology or beginning in FY 2012 an eligible hospital [...]
What happens if my certified EHR gets data from my non-certified PM? One very common question I receive about the CMS EHR Incentive Programs for Eligible Providers (EPs) concerns their use of a separate Practice Management System. Many EPs have an EHR that has received Certified Complete EHR status from CMS. They often have a [...]
Proposed Stage 2 Meaningful Use Requirements Expected Soon So the holidays have past and we can all ease back into the well-known and comfortable understanding of Stage 1 Meaningful Use and incentives. Correct? Well don’t get too deep in that couch. Sure the incentives are flying into inboxes at a record pace. In November 2011 [...]
Meaningful Use Attestation: A Word to the Wise The CMS EHR Incentive Program is going full bore. Over $390,000,000 was paid out in November alone by Medicare to Eligible Professionals (EP) and Eligible Hospitals (EH). That doesn’t even include the Medicaid incentives. Seems like every possible EHR is certified, EPs and EHs are registering, and [...]
2011: Unsung Hero of the CMS EHR Incentive Programs I would like to raise a glass of thanks and praise to one of the groups in the background that are rarely acknowledged for their work in spurring HIT adoption. Someone had to step up and take on the difficult task of assuring that EHRs are [...]
The CMS EHR Incentives for Eligible Professionals: Payment Statistics My grandmother always said that ”the proof is in the pudding”. In the case of CMS EHR incentives the proof is in the incentives paid. The programs continue to produce remarkable statistics that demonstrate that Health Information Technology is being adopted. The rate of EPs (eligible [...]
The Tipping Point I was in Washington, DC last week for the 2011 ONC Annual Meeting. This was a three day program that brought together the awardees of all the programs that the HITECH Act created. The Regional Extension Centers attended along with the Beacon Communities, the State HIEs, the Workforce Development groups, and the Advance [...]
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