What if everyone opts out? America has a love hate relationship with the Internet. On the one hand we love getting our information right now, on the other we can’t stand the invasion of privacy that comes with it. If you are paying attention to more than Google’s doodles these days you are aware of [...]
The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Innovation, the ONC, West Wireless Health Institute, and Health Affairs co-hosted last week’s Care Innovation Summit. This first of its kind summit was conceived to bring together and begin a dialogue with the marketplace on transforming healthcare delivery. The featured speakers for the day included the CEO of West [...]
CMS EHR Incentive Program Update Calling 888-734-6433 will connect you to the CMS EHR Information Center Interactive Voice Response System (IVR) System. CMS has announced upgrades and new features to this system to assist you with topics like registration and attestation. The upgrades will enable EHR Incentive program participants to obtain information on the program [...]
In December 2010 the America Competes Act was passed in response to President Obama’s call for agencies to “increase their ability to promote and harness innovation by using policy tools such as awards and competitions”. The Act allows agencies to create and initiate competitions that invoke innovation and award prizes. Through this Act the ONC [...]
Does the HIMSS conference have you thinking about other conferences to consider this Spring? Check out some great upcoming events. 18th Annual Wharton Health Care Business Confernce, February 16-17 in Philadelphia, PA A leading health care business forum for industry professionals, academics, and students. This year’s theme is “Innovation in a Changing Health Care Environment” [...]
Health Information Exchange (HIE) is a key part of EHR adoption and achieving the goals of the HITECH Act. The exchange must be secure and between authorized stakeholders in the healthcare community. The goals are to improve the delivery of patient care by removing the communication barriers between the stakeholders with a single sign on [...]
CMS Reminders on EHR Incentive Program Dates CMS has issued a reminder on important upcoming dates in the EHR Incentive Program for Eligible Professionals. The reporting period ended on December 31, 2011 for EPs who participated in the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in 2011. If you participated in the program this means you completed 90 [...]
Dr. Farzad Mostashari took the reigns of the ONC back in April from being the Deputy ONC for Blumenthal. It has now been two years now since the Proposed Rules were released which included what was to be Stage 1 of the CMS EHR Incentive Program. This past year has been quite a year for [...]
Just the Facts from Joe Friday on EHR Incentives The numbers you are about to see are all true… As of the end of 2011 123,921 Eligible Professionals have registered for EHR Incentives, 15,255 have successfully attested to meaningful use in the Medicare program. 3.077 Eligible Hospitals have registered EHR Incentives and 604 of those have successfully [...]
Two additional States have launched their Medicaid EHR Incentive programs already this year. On January 2nd both Colorado and Kansas opened registration for their programs. The Arizona REC announced that the recently launched Arizona program will be accepting attestation today on the 12th. The Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS) will accept the attestations [...]
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