Electronic Health Records (EHRs) - Meaningful Use
Harnessing the power of information technology to improve care requires giving providers greater flexibility to deploy electronic health records, holding vendors accountable for safe, interoperable products and providing certainty on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by implementing the…
Harnessing the power of information technology to improve care requires giving providers greater flexibility to deploy electronic health records, holding vendors accountable for safe, interoperable products and providing certainty on the transition to the ICD-10 coding system by implementing the…
Opportunity & Threats
Congress adopted a carrot & stick approach to prodding medical professionals and hospitals to increase the electronic capture and distribution of health information. Between 2011 and 2014 there are financial incentives to adopt EHRs.
Members-only Webinar on Thursday, October 29 at 2 p.m. ET (1 p.m. CT, 12 p.m. MT, and 11 a.m. PT)
The recently released EHR Meaningful Use in 2014 Flexibility regulation addressed challenges in FY 2014. However, for hospitals, the challenges will remain in place at the start of FY 2015 (Oct. 1, 2014), when hospitals will be expected to meet all of the program requirements for the entire fiscal…
The undersigned organizations write to express immediate concerns confronting our respective members’ ability to successfully participate in the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program in 2015 and we offer recommendations on increasing program flexibility.