Meaningful Use – Healthy Skeptic

Dec 21 2016

HHS is going to hit about 171,000 clinicians with a 3% reduction in their Medicare reimbursement for failure to meet meaningful use standards. That is a pretty good whack but many of these providers probably serve few beneficiaries.

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Jul 13 2013

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By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

According to the American Academy of Family Physicians, about 20% of physicians who previously attested to meaningful use, did not do so in the most recent year, which if accurate would suggest substantial discontent with EHRs and the meaningful use incentive program.

Oct 25 2012

InformationWeek

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Feds Take Critical Look At Meaningful Use Payments – Office of Inspector General investigating whether providers’ EHR use has resulted in Medicare overcharges.

Sep 13 2012

InformationWeek

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With EHR installation a done deal, many health providers look to consulting firms for smaller Meaningful Use projects

Aug 24 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Final MU Stage 2 Rules Released

Aug 14 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The debate continues to rage: Are meaningful use requirements too specific or too vague? On target or wide of the mark?

May 14 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Meaningful Use Quality Measures May Be Meaningless – The problem is that many of these measures were endorsed in settings that used hand-written notes in medical records. Now those notes must be adapted for use by EHR systems – the transition has been bumpy.

May 09 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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More than 270 interested parties filed public comments regarding the Meaningful Use Stage 2 proposed rules, but it is a few paragraphs in the 68-page comment letter from the American Hospital Association (AHA) that has drawn the attention and ire of patient and consumer advocate groups.

Feb 27 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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The long-anticipated proposed rules for meaningful use Stage 2 were released late Thursday by the Department of Health and Human Services.

Feb 27 2012

MedPage Today

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The federal government released its much-awaited Stage 2 guidelines on meaningful use of electronic health records

Feb 20 2012

HealthLeaders Media

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Doctors, hospitals, and other healthcare providers have so far received $3.12 billion in incentive payments for adopting meaningful use measures for health information technology

Jan 13 2012

Information Week

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Is 2012 The Year Of Online Patients?

Dec 02 2011

Medpagetoday.com

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The percentage of physicians who have adopted an electronic health record system in their practice has doubled over the past three years, according to a new report from the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

Dec 01 2011

HealthDataManagement.com

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Stage 2 of Meaningful Use Moved to 2014

Nov 02 2011

Information Week

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An AmericanEHR Partners report reveals doctors need at least three to five days of EHR training, but nearly half (49.3%) receive three or fewer days

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