The HITECH Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allows eligible healthcare providers to receive incentive payments upon demonstrating “meaningful use” of electronic health ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or ...

Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day ...

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has recommended that the federal government push back the deadline for Stage 2 implementation of meaningful use until the impact of ...

The notice of proposed rulemaking for stage 3 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs) was announced today by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Centers for ...

During a recent meeting with the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Office of the National Coordinator acknowledged that Stage 1 meaningful use requirements will not be modified for any ...

One of the final rules for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program has moved a step closer to publication. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 16 sent ...

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Office of the National Coordinator recently releasing the proposed requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use and 2014 certification of electronic health ...

DrChrono has announced that its EHR, which runs on the iPad, iPhone, and Apple Watch, has attained ONC certification for Meaningful Use Stage 3. The company believes it is the first to obtain that ...

An advisory panel that is shaping measures for the next stage of meaningful use has suggested delaying stage 2 by one year until 2014 as an option to allow vendors and healthcare providers more time ...

CMS’ extension of the Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation deadline reaffirms that the ICD-10 Oct. 1, 2014, deadline is not going to change, according to a Healthcare IT News report. Experts said the ...