Health Information Technology (HIT) remains an increasingly integral part of healthcare reform. Now, a recent study shows that more 75% of hospitals are participating in Electronic Health Record (EHR) ...

Some 59 percent have received meaningful use Stage 1 incentives. The announcement comes as federal officials have proposed a reboot to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information ...

Surprisingly, the answer is no. The Medicaid program is a bit quirky in that in the initial year an eligible provider doesn’t have to actually be using an EHR, meaningfully or otherwise. On the ...

This summer, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) issued final regulations on the definition of ...

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...

Now more than ever, providers are exploring whether the Medicare or Medicaid reimbursement program is best to receive their EHR incentive payments. For many, both are an option, and according to ...

CMS EHR Incentives: The Dark Side The US Federal Government is spending untold billions of dollars in an effort to promote the transition of our health care system from one based on paper to one based ...

“Hospitals need to mark their calendars and pay close attention to the timelines to register for both Medicare and Medicaid EHR incentives,” says Debbie Mackaman, RHIA, CHCO, Medicare Boot Camp® ...

With the government's meaningful use payments scheduled to peter out this year, researchers from the Robert Graham Center find that primary care physicians and those in small practices are most likely ...

An undertaking of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that reimburses eligible professionals and hospitals for adopting or upgrading to a certified electronic health record (EHR) system.

More than 436,189 eligible providers and hospitals are actively registered in the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs as of November 2013, according to a new report from CMS. More than 93 ...