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Practice Makes Perfect: Meeting the security risk analysis requirement of meaningful use
By Robert Tennant | May 02, 2013
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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Feds aim to audit 5% of participants in EHR program
By Joseph Conn | April 22, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
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 Everything: Health IT Blog – The Gang of Carp vs. the Gang of Good Cheer
By Joseph Conn | April 18, 2013
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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GOP senators rip federal health IT programs
By Joseph Conn | April 17, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Six Republican senators have produced a 28-page white paper that is sharply critical of the Obama administration's handling of the federal health information technology programs under the 2009 stimulus law, saying they need to be “recalibrated to be effective.”
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CHIME Time: EHR implementers face new challenges
By Stephen Stewart | April 12, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Here in Iowa, we like to get going early. That's particularly the case with my hospital.We started our EHR journey in 2004.
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Obama budget includes new fee for EHR vendors
By Joseph Conn | April 11, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Once again, the federal electronic health-record incentive payment program could take a financial hit due to government budget cutting. This time, EHR developers are being asked to take one for the team.
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ONC launches second MU challenge for states
By Joseph Conn | April 05, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
HHS has launched a second year of a friendly competition between the states and U.S. territories to give them incentives to promote the adoption and meaningful use of health information technology among their citizens and organizations.
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Tenn. pilot project takes 'Direct' route
By Joseph Conn | April 02, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Five Tennessee healthcare organizations have joined a pilot project to exchange information using the federally developed Direct secure-messaging protocol.
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Bill would offer meaningful-use exemptions
By Joseph Conn | April 01, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
A Republican congresswoman from Tennessee has introduced legislation that would exempt solo practitioners and physicians nearing retirement from the upcoming Medicare reimbursement cuts for physicians who do not meet meaningful-use requirements for electronic health-record systems under the...
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Mich. Blues joins state health data network
By Joseph Conn | March 28, 2013 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Michigan Health Information Network Shared Services, the state's administrator of federal health information exchange grant funding under the stimulus law, has announced that Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan has become the first health plan in the state to join as a qualified data-sharing...
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