Meaningful Use news and information

Epic Systems Corp. sits atop a heap of more than 400 developers of complete electronic health-record systems for ambulatory-care physicians and other eligible professionals who have received federal EHR incentive payments, federal data shows.
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Epic Systems Corp. and Meditech have the most customers receiving federal electronic health-record system incentive payments in the two key categories for hospital systems, federal data show.
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Key federal programs to boost electronic health-record system use passed a milestone last month as more than half of physicians and other “eligible professionals” have received incentive payments for attesting to the adoption of a certified EHR system.
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Three healthcare organizations are defending the federal health IT booster programs against calls from GOP senators who want a “reboot.”
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Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) has introduced a Senate version of the Cutting Costly Codes Act of 2013, a bill aimed at blocking HHS from implementing the ICD-10 diagnostic and procedural codes, which it is scheduled to do on Oct. 1, 2014.
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Presbyterian Intercommunity Hospital in Whittier, Calif., is laying the groundwork for its next big advances in information technology.
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It sometimes takes a phone call to make meaningful use of electronic health records in rural areas. In the central West Virginia village of Clay, with a population of about 490, Dr. Sarah Chouinard heads Community Care of West Virginia, also a Community Health Network member.
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Last June, MGMA-ACMPE released the results of a questionnaire that ranked members' most pressing practice management challenges. In this edition of "Practice Makes Perfect," we'll tackle No. 5 on that list: Participating in CMS' EHR meaningful-use incentive program.
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About one in 20 participants in the federally funded electronic health-record incentive payment program can expect to be audited for compliance with meaningful use and other program criteria, a federal official said Monday.
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It's fashionable these days to call every cluster of U.S. Senators a gang.The Gang of Six. The Gang of Eight.
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