Tag: certification
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EHR Meaningful Use – Why EHR Certification Alone Won’t Earn You Incentive Payments
Dr. Scott Jens provides a very informative discussion on EHR Meaningful Use and why EHR Certification alone will not earn you incentive payments. Video Rating: 0 / 5
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An Overview of Meaningful Use Stage 2 and the Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rules
After months of speculation, the final rules for Meaningful Use Stage 2 and the Standards and Certification Criteria have been released. On Friday, August 24…
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Washington Debrief: Sebelius Responds to GOP Senators on HITECH Criticism
Six Senators sent letters to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and health IT stakeholders questioning the effectiveness of HITECH implementation. In response to the report, Secretary Sebelius said, “We haven’t gotten to implementation of Stage 2 yet,” Sebelius said in a recent Senate Finance Committee budget hearing. “You might be reading the final chapter before we…
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EHR Association Speaks Out Against Vendor Fee in Budget
The Healthcare Information Management and Systems Society’s (HIMSS) EHR Association, a non-profit trade group, has expressed its discontent with a portion of the Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) 2014 Budget that would implement a user fee for vendors that would get their products certified Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) Health IT Certification…
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ONC proposes EHR vendor fee
Citing the crush of an increasing workload and dwindling government funding, the Office of the National Coordinator has proposed a health IT user fee that would be imposed on health IT vendors who certify their products through the ONC Health IT Certification Program. The HIMSS EHR Association opposes ONC’s proposal
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Rural Hospital EHR
As I mentioned in my previous post on EHR Penalties and Meaningful Use Failure , I had a really good discussion with Stoltenberg Consulting about rural hospital EHR at HIMSS this year. While Stoltenberg no doubt works with hospital systems of every size, I could tell that they had a real affection for the rural…
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Healthcare Management Systems’ EHR v12 Receives ONC-ACB Certification
Healthcare Management Systems v12 has been tested and certified under the Drummond Group’s Electronic Health Records Office of the National Coordinator Authorized Certification Body (ONC-ACB) program. This EHR software from Healthcare Management Systems (HMS) is compliant in accordance with the criteria adopted by the Secretary of the U.S.