CMS Attestation Website Ready for Meaningful Use Stage 1 Reporting

On April 18, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the Electronic Health Record (EHR) incentive website, allowing eligible providers (EPs) to utilize the web based system to attest that they have met meaningful use criteria, using certified EHR technology, in order to receive reimbursement from the Medicare EHR incentive program.
The recent CMS press release states [...]

Thoughts For 2011

As we start the new year we all start to wonder what will this new year bring in term of changes that may be a little out of our control.  For many health care professionals 2009 and 2010 were  very eventful years, and 2011 will most likely be as exciting as the previous two.
The new [...]

Part 1 of Final Meaningful Use Analysis

After over 2,000 public comments received on the initially proposed meaningful use ruling released back in January of 2010, the Department of Health and Human Services delivered the final regulations that will govern the initial 2 years of the Medicare/Medicaid incentive program during 2011/2012. Read More

Reda Chouffani is a writer for Healthcare IT Insider,
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Published Meaningful Use and Certification Program

On July 28th,  two of the most anticipated federal rules meaningful use and certification ruling have been trimmed down and published. After careful review of the final ruling, many of criteria seem to have changed but eligible physicians, and payment structure remains the same.
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“Meaningful Use” Has Come to Stay

First, what is meaningful use? For me it has two definitions.
A couple of months ago I was explaining to my wife the definition of EHR “meaningful use” over dinner. She was nodding her head and seemingly listening more intently than normal to my work-related subject.  As soon as I was done talking, she quickly said [...]