A Proactive Approach to Meaningful Use Audits – Part II I trust my post last week directed to Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAHs) was convincing on the need to conduct mock ...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will begin to make meaningful use incentive payments to eligible physicians and hospitals as early as May 2011, according to a senior CMS official, who ...

Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

A list of the nation's top 20 largest EHR vendors, ranked by a cumulative number of providers who declared the vendor's product in use throughout the duration of the Medicare EHR Incentive program.

Many clinicians and hospitals have asked me about the exact steps to obtain stimulus payments. On January 3, 2011, CMS began registering clinicians for participation in meaningful use programs. Every ...

We have entered Zombie Land. The 2011 Edition of certified technology was put to rest on December 31, 2013. The nails were put in the coffin. We said our goodbyes, made our peace, and tried to move on ...

As more physicians adopt electronic health record systems in their practices, policy interest is focusing on whether physicians are ready to meet the federal “meaningful use” criteria—a vital ...

A recently released report from HHS’ Office of the Inspector General criticizing CMS’s electronic health record fraud-detection procedures has several Senators’ concerns about CMS’ EHR incentive ...

There’s a bit of good news from the Health and Human Service Department's Office of Inspector General: Pennsylvania has been paying hospitals incentives pursuant to the Medicaid EHR program properly, ...