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Physician Quality Reporting Initiative
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Clinical decision support needs more than just alerts to improve quality
In its final rule for "meaningful use" of EMRs, CMS defined clinical decision support as technology that gives healthcare professionals "general and person-specific information, intelligently
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
'Stage 7' hospital CIO frets about quality reporting
In January, Citizens Memorial Hospital in Bolivar, Mo., became the first rural hospital to achieve Stage 7 on the HIMSS Analytics EMR Adoption Model, and one of only 39 facilities nationwide to reach
CMS may reward physician EHR reporting as soon as 2010
CMS may expand its Physician Quality Reporting Initiative incentive program as soon as next year to include clinical data reported from EHRs. "We will make the determination as to whether accepting
CMS to expand 'value-based' purchasing efforts
Brace yourself: It looks like CMS is going to expand its value-based purchasing efforts, throwing yet another wrinkle into a relationship that's complicated enough as it is. According to Thomas
