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NewsCMS: Final meaningful use, certification rules sent to OMB
How do we know the rules for meaningful use will be out any day now? CMS has sent its regulatory language to the White House Office of Management and Budget for review, the final stage in the... Read more...
Certification may have to change to keep up with evolving meaningful use, CHIME says
As the criteria for meaningful use are likely to evolve over time, certification of EMRs will have to change, too, resulting in the need for ongoing certification, the College of Health Information... Read more...
AAFP's Waldren calls meaningful use, quality reporting the foundations of payment reform
Primary-care practices, if you're thinking about not adopting an EMR, you could be putting yourselves in a very bad position for the inevitable future transition to a quality-based reimbursement... Read more...
Blumenthal: Certified EHRs should be available by fall
The health IT community should know by this fall if EHRs they have purchased or are considering purchasing are certified under the federal government's new, temporary certification program, national... Read more...
AHA pushes for more flexibility in meaningful use
It should surprise nobody that meaningful use of EMRs was a hot topic at the American Hospital Association's annual meeting in Washington this week. And AHA Executive VP Rick Pollack didn't... Read more...
Providers will attest to meaningful use via CMS registration system
If nothing else, it should at least be easy to register to receive federal incentive payments for meaningful use of EMRs. CMS has awarded a $1.6 million contract to CGI Federal, a Fairfax, Va.-based... Read more...
Accenture physician: National goal of 'universal' EMR adoption not realistic
Well, it needed to be said. With only 6 percent of office-based physicians using fully functioning EMRs, according to the most recent CDC statistics, it's not exactly likely that all citizens will... Read more...
AHA leaders share concerns about meaningful use with Blumenthal, CMS
How carefully is HHS reviewing the more than 2,000 comments on the proposal for meaningful use of EMRs? On Monday, National Health IT Coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal and two top CMS officials... Read more...
ONC corrects EMR certification proposal
The long-awaited and widely reported release of the proposed rule to establish a federally supervised EMR certification program last week apparently was just a dress rehearsal. The Office of the... Read more...
Surescripts will certify on new NCPDP standard; few expect competition to CCHIT
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Information Technology made news last week when it began two of its three planned certification programs for 2011, with an eye toward helping EHR customers... Read more...
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