To help navigate meaningful use as well as standards and certification criteria final rules, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information developed grids that capture the meaningful ...

After the July 13 release of the final rules of meaningful use, providers all over the country are examining the 15 core regulations and 14 “a la carte” regulations to determine how and when they will ...

July 13 was a big day for electronic health record vendors and users. The federal government released its long awaited final rules on standards for certification and on “meaningful use” incentives.

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...

Stage 2 of the federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program is underway for providers who first reached Stage 1 in 2011. Although there will not be any official statistics available for several ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or ...

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT) said it believes the Interim Final Rule (IFR) on standards and certification might cause "unintended deceleration in the pace of ...

The trade association for hospital IT executives is urging federal authorities to back off on setting the next stage of e-record "meaningful use" standards until more health-care providers have ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is relaxing its timetable for health-care providers to meet stricter standards for "meaningful use" of electronic health records, a move HHS says is ...

The following article is written by Sean Benson, cofounder and vice president of consulting with ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The march towards meaningful use (MU) has created a ...

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