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June 4, 2013As of the end of April, the federal government has paid out $14.6 billion in EHR incentive payments, according to Robert Anthony, deputy director of the HIT Initiative Group at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of E-Health … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, 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, ONC | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases May 2013 EI Connections Newsletter
June 3, 2013Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its May 2013 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: May 2013 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 Best Practices, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EHR Study, 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, HHS, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI Data Breaches, PHI Data Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentCHIME Calls For 1 Year Delay Of Stage 2 Meaningful Use
May 29, 2013Responding to a feedback request from Senators on Capitol Hill regarding health IT adoption, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives called for a one-year pushback of the Stage 2 meaningful use deadline and defended the efficacy of the federal … Continue reading
Posted in Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, 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, ONC, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentBest Practices For Preparing For A Meaningful Use Audit
May 24, 2013ONC/CMS provides strong oversight of the meaningful use program by continuousy reexamining the quality of certified products and auditing hospitals and practices that have attested to meaningful use. Last week, the ONC “de-certified” a product for not supporting the functionality … Continue reading
Posted in Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, 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 Policy, Health IT Services, Meaningful Use, Meaningful Use Audits, ONC | Leave a commentCMS Provides Details On Meaningful Use Audits
May 21, 2013The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services this year implemented pre-payment audits on Medicare and dually eligible (Medicare and Medicaid) providers participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. The pre-payment audits complement post-payment audits that CMS has conducted since 2012. Both … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Meaningful Use | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HHS, Meaningful Use, ONC | Leave a commentBuilding Patient Trust Is Vital To Health Information Exchanges
May 17, 2013In recent weeks, federal regulators and their advisers have been deliberating about how best to earn patient trust that their privacy will be protected as their data is shared among providers via evolving health information exchanges. Keeping a focus on … Continue reading
Posted in Health Information Exchange | Tagged CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health Information Exchange, Health IT, Health IT Information Security, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Security, Stage 2 Meaningful Use Rule | Leave a commentCMS Reports EHR Incentive Payments Surpass $13B
May 13, 2013Continuing the upward trajectory of EHR reimbursements flowing out into the healthcare industry, CMS said on Tuesday morning that the total paid as of March’s end is more than $13.7 billion. “March was a very big month,” said Rob Anthony … Continue reading
Posted in EHR Incentives | Tagged CMS, CMS EHR Incentives, CMS Policy, 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, ONC | Leave a commentEnvironmental Intelligence Releases April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter
May 1, 2013Environmental Intelligence LLC is pleased to release its April 2013 EI Connections Newsletter. Please send your feedback or suggestions to [email protected]. Click Here to view: April 2013 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, EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Incentives, EI Connections Newsletter, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Information Security, Health IT Policy, Health IT Services, HIPAA Compliance, HIPAA Privacy and Security Rules, Meaningful Use, medical practice best practices, ONC, Patient Experience, PHI, PHI Data Security | Leave a commentFlorida Insurer Addresses Interoperability
April 23, 2013Florida Blue, the Sunshine State’s largest insurer, has launched a project with data exchange platform Availity and ambulatory electronic health record vendor Greenway that will enable physicians to exchange clinical summaries with the health plan through their EHRs. The initiative … Continue reading
Posted in Health It Interoperability | Tagged EHR, EHR Adoption, EHR Consulting, EHR Implementation, EHR Interoperability, Electronic Health Records, Electronic Medical Records, EMR, Environmental Intelligence, Health IT, Health IT Best Practices, Health IT Services | Leave a commentHHS Launches New Patient Safety Workgroup
April 18, 2013Members of a new workgroup focused on ways to improve patient safety and promote innovation in health IT, including mobile medical applications, have been selected by the Department of Health and Human Services and Federal Communications Commission. The workgroup will … Continue reading
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