Meaningful Use – Page 2 – Healthy Skeptic

Nov 02 2011

New York Times

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Though hospitals are eligible for billions of dollars in federal stimulus money to bring their facilities into the digital age to save money and improve the quality of health care, just one in 10 is ready to meet government standards

Oct 24 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The final ACO regulations were issued with major concessions to the original plan. One of the critical changes: The rule no longer requires that 50% of participating physicians be meaningful users of electronic health records.

Sep 29 2011

HealthLeaders Media

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Meaningful use requirements sets the groundwork for “massive liberation of patient data”

Sep 26 2011

next.gov

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The adoption of electronic medical records continues apace. Nearly 91,000 health-care providers have received $653.3 million in Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments so far this year

Sep 16 2011

Govhealthit.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

EHR incentive program ramps up to 90,000 providers

Sep 16 2011

Govhealthit.com

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Physicians and hospitals signed up in droves in August to participate in the meaningful use incentive program, with 13,000 registering, a 30 percent jump from July

Sep 11 2011

CMIO.net

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

A survey results suggest that the initial meaningful use threshold for hospitals is probably too low to have a significant impact on deaths from heart failure and heart attack among hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries.

Aug 19 2011

GovHealthIT.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Single vocab standard for each EHR reporting domain seen as ‘momentous’

Aug 17 2011

Bloomberg

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Health Care Prognosis Better With Digital Law: Peter Orszag

Aug 09 2011

HealthcareITNews

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

Meaningful use remains the strongest driver to implement electronic health records for physicians, according to a new survey that finds both potential EHR buyers and current users valuing the technology, but with substantially different perceptions and expectations.

Aug 08 2011

GovHealthIT.com

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

About 77,000 healthcare providers have registered for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentive program, according to CMS findings about meaningful use participation.

Jul 29 2011

EMRandHIPAA

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

As everyone in health IT knows, EMR certification, a prerequisite for meaningful use, does not measure usability

Jul 29 2011

Washington Post

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

The iPad application drchrono has been granted a “Meaningful Use” certification by the U.S. government

Jul 22 2011

2011 Potpourri XXVIII

By Kevin Roche Commentary No Comments

The dog days of summer bring yet another scorching hot Potpourri with a smorgasbord of data, including metabias in randomized clinical trials, the practice of defensive medicine, the status of…

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Jul 08 2011

InformationWeek

By Kevin Roche Headlines No Comments

CMS said it plans to allow eligible professionals “to attest in 2012” that they have used their electronic health records to collect data on clinical quality measures as part of the CMS criteria for “Meaningful Use” of EHRs.

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