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June 27, 2012The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has announced the agency has paid out more than $5.7 billion in incentives to eligible providers for the meaningful use of electronic health records. The update, released June 19, showed more than 100,000 … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentWhite House Town Hall Highlights EHR Success Stories
June 27, 2012Eighty-two healthcare providers from across the country will be recognized for their successful implementation of electronic health record (EHR) technology at Tuesday’s White House Health IT Town Hall in Washington, DC. At the town hall, senior White House and HHS … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Implementation | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Healthcare, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentAMA Evaluating Leap To ICD-11 Despite Proposed Delay Of ICD-10
June 21, 2012ICD-10 proponents are not going to like this one bit. Certainly not any more than they enjoyed my suggestion that the proposed ICD-10 deadline extension puts the U.S. healthcare industry into a strange time warp in which providers and payers … Continue reading
Posted in ICD-10 | Tagged CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, ICD-10 | Leave a commentExperts Predict Outcome Of Supreme Court Ruling On Healthcare IT
June 14, 2012With the Supreme Court’s decision on the Affordable Care Act (ACA) expected by the end of this month, more and more policymakers, healthcare experts and stakeholders are becoming vocal about their predictions of the outcome. Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator of the … Continue reading
Posted in ACA | Tagged ACA, CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Healthcare, HHS | Leave a commentCMS Administrator Credits Health Reform For Advancing ACOs
June 11, 2012If it weren’t for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the government would not have had the framework and authority to help support the movement toward accountable care organizations, said Marilyn Tavenner, acting administrator for the Centers for Medicare & MedicaidServices … Continue reading
Posted in CMS | Tagged ACO, CMS, CMS Policy, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Policy, Healthcare | Leave a commentCMS EHR Incentive Payments Exceed 110,000 Providers
June 7, 2012Another milestone: The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record program has paid out $5.58 billion to 110,650 physicians and hospital in total program estimates through May 2012. Final figures will be available later this month once the Centers for Medicare … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use | Leave a commentPHI Data Breaches – Can They Be Avoided?
June 4, 2012“As more doctors and hospitals go digital with medical records, the size and frequency of data breaches are alarming privacy advocates and public health officials.” This quote can be found in the first paragraph of this article:As patients’ records go … Continue reading
Posted in PHI Data Security | Tagged CMS, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Services, HHS, PHI, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases May 2012 Newsletter
May 31, 2012Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its May 2012 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: May 2012 EI Connections Newsletter Want to automatically receive our monthly newsletter? Click on this link to … Continue reading
Posted in Environmental Intelligence | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Hosting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, Health IT Standards, Healthcare, HHS, HIE, HIE Standards, HIT, ICD-10, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, PHI Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentCMS EHR Incentive Payments Surpass $5B
May 29, 2012Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments have tipped the scales at over $5 billion to 93,650 physicians and hospitals in total program estimates through April. Final figures will be available later this this month as progress “continues apace,” according … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Hosting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EHR Technology Enhancements, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentDeciphering Associations Comments On Meaningful Use Stage 2
May 24, 2012The window for submitting comments on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Notice of Proposed Rule-Making (NPRM) for Meaningful Use Stage 2 has officially closed. The deadline for submitting comments on the CMS NPRM for Meaningful Use Stage … Continue reading
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