Posted on 07/28/2010 - 14:08 by Steven
The money could begin flowing from Medicare to providers for the purchase of electronic health-record systems as early as May 2011, a CMS official said today.
Posted on 07/20/2010 - 10:20 by antonio
The “Official” ONC/CMS Audio conference call on the EHR stimulus programs.
ONC Certification and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs:
Final Rules
How will they impact you?
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) together with The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) invite you to join us for an Audio Training on the Final Rules for ONC Certification and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.
Posted on 07/15/2010 - 08:55 by antonio
Listed below is the objectives published by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) governing "meaningful use" of electronic health records. HHS had lowerd the criteria from 25 objectives that providers had to meet, to 14 mandatory and 5 menu objectives.
Posted on 07/13/2010 - 13:25 by antonio
In a press conference today, ONC announced the release of the long awaited final version of the “Meaningful Use” rule. The Office of National Coordination for Health Information Technology received over 2000 comments from across the country during the rule making process. Those comments resulted in a dramatically scaled back set of regulations, while still maintaining the goal of achieving improvement in health care outcome.
Posted on 06/23/2010 - 17:26 by antonio
The site summarizes a lot of the information we have been gathering during the last six months. But the most important new information that we found is that providers have to register in the PECOS system. Our guess is that the majority of doctor's out there are not registered.
Posted on 06/17/2010 - 11:41 by antonio
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) today issued a final rule to establish a temporary certification program for electronic health record (EHR) technology. The temporary certification program establishes processes that organizations will need to follow in order to be authorized by the National Coordinator to test and certify EHR technology.