Meaningful use incentive programs will help offset the costs associated with implementing ICD-10 at healthcare facilities, according to a Government Health IT report. According to the report, experts ...

Physician groups and hospitals pursuing meaningful use can have surprises crop up from three main sources — audits, vendors and employees — according to Sharon Stewart, senior consultant in clinical ...

There is a little known but potential Stage 1 Meaningful Use nightmare for Eligible Professionals (EPs) who are preparing for Meaningful Use attestation for the CMS EHR incentives. The attestation ...

At last week's Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) summit in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., panelists Doris Crain, vice president and CIO of Broward Health; Jeanette Schreiber, medical ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

One of the most mis-understood Meaningful Use core measures for EPs is the objective to: “Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit”. The required measure threshold for this ...

The following is written by Marion K. Jenkins, PhD, FHIMSS, founder and CEO of QSE Technologies. Recently at the ASC Association annual conference in Orlando, I gave a presentation on EHRs in ASCs.

This webinar will provide perspectives from CMS, an auditor, and legal counsel regarding the recent increase in Meaningful Use audits and enforcement activity. CMS has provided $24 billion in ...

The definition of "Meaningful Use" in ARRA is one of the most critical decision points of the new administration's healthcare IT efforts. That definition will influence the types of products that will ...

Officials with the Office of the National Coordinator have issued an "all hands on deck" call to accelerate meaningful use certification for more than 1,000 small rural hospitals by the end of 2014.

Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day ...

The deadline for physicians and other eligible professionals (EPs) to submit an application for a hardship exception to the meaningful use program is July 1, 2015. Unless EPs attested to meaningful ...