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NewsMeaningful Use Stage 2 a high priority on HHS regulatory agenda
The next few months are going to be chock-full of new regulations affecting electronic health records systems. That's the scoop from U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' latest regulatory Read more...
HHS, Emdeon partnership provides EHRs to underserved areas
Electronic health record vendor Emdeon and the Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Minority Health have launched an initiative wherein the latter will donate EHR software and Read more...
OIG approves referral arrangement involving EHR data exchange
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has given the green light to a proposed arrangement that would allow providers' medical data stored in their Read more...
HHS pushes back Stage 2 of Meaningful Use to 2014
As part of a new initiative to accelerate Meaningful Use of electronic health records, the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced its intent to delay the start of Stage 2 of Read more...
ONC: Rule for punishing non-performing EHR accreditors finalized
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has issued a final rule outlining the steps that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) would take to handle improper Read more...
Don't let auto-generated data lead to 'inadvertent' EHR fraud
Physicians still don't fully understand that the way they use their electronic health records could cause them to look like they're billing improperly, ultimately landing them in legal hot water, Read more...
EHRs to help evaluate effectiveness of text4baby
The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services' Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) intends to use electronic health record data to help evaluate the usefulness of the text4baby Read more...
HHS advisor: Metadata standards 'premature' for Meaningful Use
The National Committee on Vital and Health Statistics (NCVHS), the statutory public advisory body to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, has recommended that the Office of the Read more...
EHR fraud, abuse a big focus of latest OIG plan
The Department of Health and Human Services' Office of Inspector General (OIG) has announced in its 2012 work plan that it intends to take a much closer look at violations of fraud and abuse in Read more...
HHS, AHIMA to bring EHR training to rural and underserved areas
Discounted electronic health record software and free health IT training for providers are the crux of a collaboration announced this week between the Department of Health & Human Services (HHS), Read more...
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