Does EHR certification by the government mean anything? It does if you want to qualify for a number of incentive programs. Any reputable EHR vendor knows that such incentives can have a huge impact on ...

A new report from the Office of Department of Health and Human Services, Office of Inspector General (OIG) might not entirely spill the meaningful use apple cart, but it certainly isn't going to make ...

The EHR Association penned a letter Nov. 20 in response to CMS Administrator Seema Verma’s request for feedback on a “new direction” for the agency’s innovation center in September. The association ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

When the annual Government Health IT conference (GHIT11) takes place next month in Washington, D.C., Jessica Kahn, technical director for health IT at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, ...

In the ever-evolving landscape of state-based health insurance exchanges, the convergence of technology and customer service is reshaping how these exchanges operate. The increasing advent of ...

CMS said that with the meaningful use definitions in place, EHR vendors can ensure that their systems deliver the required capabilities, providers can be assured that the system they acquire will ...

The Health and Human Services Department announced on Monday that it selected the first two organizations that will review whether electronic health record system meet the standards and certification ...

One very common question I receive about the CMS EHR Incentive Programs for Eligible Providers (EPs) concerns their use of a separate Practice Management System. Many EPs have an EHR that has received ...

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology of Chicago and the Drummond Group, Inc. of Austin, TX, have been named by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information ...

In a little-noticed action last month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) published a regulation requiring hospitals to attest that they have completed an annual safety assessment of ...