Meaningful Use news and information

The American Medical Association is pulling up just short of an outright call for a second extension to an enforcement deadline for adoption of ASC X12 Version 5010 standards for transmission of electronic claims and other administrative transactions.
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GE Healthcare is pulling the plug on its Web-based Centricity Advance electronic health-record system for office-based physicians, the company announced.
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Dr. Farzad Mostashari, head of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, predicts at least 100,000 providers will receive federal electronic health-record incentive payments by year's end.
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Thanks, Joe, for covering the WorldVistA conference for those of us who missed it.
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In June 2011, the Medical Group Management Association released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most-pressing practice-management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect,"...
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Epic Systems Corp. is an early leader among a broad field of for-profit companies, providers and not-for-profit organizations developing electronic health-record systems used by physicians and other "eligible professionals" as well as by hospitals that have received federal incentive payments,...
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Total federal incentive payments for the use of electronic health-record systems have soared to just over $2.5 billion, according to the CMS.
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I served on a panel recently, and one of the program directors asked whether healthcare could really handle the changes that will be necessary under healthcare-reform legislation. I assured her that Pennsylvania has already experienced significant change.
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A New York-based, federally funded, health information technology regional extension center has announced it has reached its first-year goal of enrolling more than 5,000 physicians.
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Upfront carrots coupled with far-off sticks are part of several federal health IT booster initiatives, and the CMS' Electronic Prescribing Incentive Program is no exception.
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