By Professor William A. Hyman – The draft 2015 ONC Certification Requirements for EHRs, released on March 20, 2015 in advance of its Federal Register publication, includes among other things that EHRs have Unique Device Identification (UDI) capability for implanted medical devices
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The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME), the healthcare industry’s leading professional organization for chief information officers and senior IT executives, is calling on innovators throughout the U.S. and around the world to participate in the CHIME National Patient ID Challenge.
Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs and 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria rules proposed The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Medicare…
Eligible professionals now have until 11:59 pm ET on March 20, 2015, to attest to meaningful use for the Medicare Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program 2014 reporting year.
By Jim Tate – What is would be like to open your inbox and find 33 separate CMS EHR Incentive audits? That is the exact experience one of our client hospitals experienced several week ago.
The application period is now open for a new Request for Proposals from MeHI, the Massachusetts eHealth Institute at MassTech, to increase the effective use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in the Long-Term and Post-Acute Care (LTPAC) sector.
Who doesn’t like a good list? Weather you are on it, know someone on it, or aspire to be on it, you always want to read the list. Here are some interesting lists I think deserve sharing.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has released the most recent numbers for the EHR Incentive programs. Here are some Program-to-date highlights from this latest CMS report – December.
Keep up with the important dates and deadlines for the CMS Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Use the CMS Interactive Timeline to stay informed on all their eHealth programs which also include quality measurement, administrative simplification, and patient outcomes/payment reform.