Tag: Meaningful
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The Most Often Selected EHR Menu Meaningful Use Objectives
EHR Provider Sevocity has analyzed the December 2012 CMS report EP Recipients of Medicare EHR Incentive Program Payments to determine which Menu Objectives were most often selected by providers attesting to Meaningful Use under the Medicare EHR Incentive Program. To qualify for an EHR incentive payment under the program, eligible providers must attest to 15…
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EHR and HIT News for Tax Day – April 15th
EHR and HIT News for this tax day, April 15th, includes customer acquisition news from EHR Integration Services as well as a product announcement from MTBC and finally there is Meaningful Use attestation news from Modernizing Medicin e. Phreesia Partners With EHR Integration Services to Automate Patient Intake Process EHR Integration Services has announced a…
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ONC ramps up state competition on EHR adoption
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has launched the next phase of its state Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge. read more
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A Massachusetts HIE Update
In the next few weeks, BIDMC will begin sending 50,000 patient encounter records per week through the state HIE (the MassHIWay) to our quality measurement service operated by the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative. Also in a few weeks, all the daily reportable lab, syndromic surveillance, and immunization data required by Meaningful Use Stage 2 will be…
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CMS offers tip sheet on MU, quality measures
As the Oct. 1 start date nears for meeting Stage 2 of the meaningful-use criteria for hospitals in the federal electronic health-record incentive program, the CMS has posted a one-page tip sheet for providers on the reporting of clinical quality…
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EHR Adoption Encouraged by State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) is officially launching the State Meaningful Use Acceleration Challenge 2.0! This year’s challenge builds off the success of the 2012 State Meaningful Use Challenge, which pitted every state and territory against one another to see which would best accelerate the Meaningful Use incentive program…
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Policy Committee Supports ‘Deeming’ Approach to Stage 3 MU
Members of the Health IT Policy Committee were largely supportive of work being done by the meaningful use work group to lighten the reporting burden of Stage 3 of meaningful use.
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Hospitals, Representative Ask For Extension of EMR “Safe Harbor”
Right now, it’s legal for hospitals to give doctors EMRs under certain circumstances, despite the existence of the Stark law banning payments intended to induce referrals. Specifically, hospitals won’t face anti-kickback enforcement if doctors pay 15 percent of the cost of EMRs donated by hospitals. But the Stark law exception established by CMS, plus a…
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Policy Committee to Hear Proposals on Stage 3 MU Consolidation, ‘Deeming’
The April 3 Health IT Policy Committee meeting promises to be interesting. The committee will hear presentations from two subgroups of the meaningful use workgroup, one dealing with the potential consolidation of meaningful use measures for Stage 3 and the other with the concept of “deeming” for eligible hospitals. The April 3 Health IT Policy…
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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…