Comments for Stage 2 Meaningful Use end May 7th Both CMS and ONC have released Notices for Proposed Rulemaking for Stage 2 Meaningful Use. The notices released in early March are proposals for how Stage 2 meaningful use will work. Both notices were published in the Federal Register on March 7th with 60 day public [...]
CMS Encourages Remaining EPs to Participate in EHR Incentive Program If you have not begun transitioning your practice to electronic health records, you are not alone. Although EHR adoption is on the rise there are still more than 50% of all Physician practices that have not implemented EHR technology. And if you are planning to [...]
Recovery Room highlights Health IT, CMS, and ONC News We haven’t done a Recovery Room in a while. These posts are selected information that make up news items that have happened or articles written in the recent past we thought were of interest. The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have released the names of [...]
Clinical Quality Measures (CQMs) for EPs and Hospitals Published On March 7th CMS published the NPRM for the EHR Incentive Program Stage 2 in the Federal Register. It is currently in the comment period until May 7th. In the notice CMS proposes that Clinical Quality Measures (CQM) will no longer be a core objective but [...]
ABIM Choosing Wisely Project Underway An original concept of the National Physicians Alliance, Choosing Wisely is now an initiative of the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM). The initiative is promoting patient care that is supported by evidence, does not duplicate unnecessary tests, and is free from harm. It is important that doctors and their [...]
CMS EHR Incentive Program and EHR Adoption Rates Just the Facts from Joe Friday The numbers and facts you are about to see are all true… As of April 5th The EHR Incentive data comes from the CMS February report. Over 211,500 eligible professionals (EPs), eligible hospitals, and critical access hospitals (CAHs) have registered for [...]
CMS Announces EHR Incentive Appeals extension to April 30 CMS is extending the March 30 deadline for EPs to submit eligibility appeals for the CMS EHR Incentive Program 2011 payment year. Protesting under the eligibility appeal allows the EP to show they have met all the requirements for the EHR Incentive Program but they could [...]
Guidance on Stage 1 Meaningful Use Objectives We get questions everyday from our readers about meaningful use and these three are asked regularly. CMS has recently documented guidance on them in their FAQ database. For meaningful use stage 1 objectives that require a provider to test the transfer of data, such as “capability to exchange key [...]
Hearings on Affordable Care Act (ACA) We don’t usually report on the ACA here, we stick to the HITECH Act. But it would be hard to go through this week without mentioning the highest court hearing arguments related to health care. Today is the last of the three days of oral arguments regarding the Affordable [...]
Meaningful Use Attestation for Security Risk Analysis One of the meaningful use core objectives for Eligible Professionals and Eligible Hospitals is to protect electronic health information created or maintained by a certified EHR through the implementation of appropriate technical capabilities. There are no exclusions to this objective for either professionals or hospitals. To attest to [...]
ONC #Health in My Community Challenge In September 2009 President Obama outlined and initiated his Strategy for American Innovation. He called on agencies to “increase their ability to promote innovation by using tools such as prizes and challenges to solve tough problems.” The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) then issued the guidelines on challenges, [...]
Stage 2 Meaningful Use NPRM The foundation of attesting to meaningful use of a certified EHR technology is based on a set of objectives and measures that an eligible professional or hospital must meet. That foundation was established in the final rule for Stage 1 of the CMS EHR Incentive Program. Recently a Notice for [...]
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