Meaningful Use news and information

A key function of the electronic health-record incentive payment program was shut down Tuesday along with much of the federal government due to the failure of Congress to pass a continuing spending resolution.
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Most healthcare organizations have covered a lot of IT ground in the past four-plus years. Industrywide, we've implemented and upgraded electronic health records, made strides toward achieving meaningful use, developed plans for ICD-10, and looked to link with patients and health information...
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There is growing concern that far fewer software developers have certified EHR systems for use by healthcare providers under federal Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements than under Stage 1.
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Seventeen Senate Republicans are asking HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to again delay the looming implementation of more stringent criteria for the federal electronic health record incentive payment program. Their request follows a plea to providers from a leading EHR vendor to ask the government...
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More than 135,000 physicians, dentists, optometrists, podiatrists and chiropractors working in ambulatory care have relied on just five vendors of complete electronic health-record systems to help them achieve meaningful use under Medicare's electronic health record incentive payment program,...
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The Hospital Authority of Habersham County, Georgia, voted Sept. 17, during its regular monthly meeting, to return $1.5 million that Habersham Medical Center, Demorest, had received for demonstrating "meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology."
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Gail Carlson, chief nurse executive at 54-bed Alegent Creighton Health Midlands Hospital in Papillion, Neb., needs the same electronic medical-record system for all her hospital's ambulatory and in-patient facilities.
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The American College of Physicians is nervous about where HHS is headed with the criteria for meaningful use of electronic health records.
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The star of the Epic Systems Corp. user's group meeting that got underway in Verona, Wis., Tuesday was the venue itself, the cavernous five-story, 11,400-seat Deep Space auditorium that is literally buried into a hillside and designed so the view across the rolling Wisconsin campus would be...
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The Delaware Regional Extension Center is batting better than a thousand.
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