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 [...]
Marni Anderson Health IT Specialist, Wisconsin Health Information Technology Extension Center (WHITEC) www.whitec.org Wisconsin launched its Medicaid EHR Incentive Program in August 2011. In the last several months I’ve had the opportunity to work with many small, independent practices and solo providers as they sort through the specifics of the program in our state. Time [...]
There is a new dimension, beyond that which is known to physicians. It is a dimension as vast as any medical clinic and as timeless as your patient records. It is the middle ground between implementation and meaningful use. It is an area which we call The EHR Zone. Coming in February…the debut of The EHR [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
EHR Adoption Resources Expand for 2012 The new year has brought about some recent changes and developments to HITECH Answers. The most significant of these changes is our partnership with UMB Medica, one of the largest media companies in the U.S. serving the healthcare industry. Through this partnership our content will now be delivered to [...]
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 [...]
ONC announces an open call for entries in the Healthy New Year Video Challenge. If you have a personal story of patients or families using health information technology to improve health and a video camera, this is for you. This is the first in a series of consumer video contests set for various times in [...]
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