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ONC Holds A Key To the Structural Deficit

Published Sat, Apr 04 2013 7:30 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EHR, Health IT, HITECH, ONC, Health information technology, electronic health records, data security, interoperability, HHS, Shared Savings, social security, People in healthcare, Doctor-patient relationship, Health care professionals, Technology in healthcare, consumer engagement, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, transparency, Change Management, employers and health insurance, TED talks about health, health information exchanges, health insurance exchanges, Society for Participatory Medicine, health care costs, patient advocates, health care incentives, unnecessary services, Triple Aim, The Health Care Blog, subsidies, patient privacy, health care technology, DirectTrust, Blue Button Plus, CommonWell, Adrian Gropper MD, pricing transparency, consolidation
ONC: no caps on per-provider EHR incentive payments

National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari has announced there is no cap on how much individual providers may receive in meaningful use incentive payouts, as long as they meet the requirements for the EHR incentive payments program. According...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2012 2:51 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Medicare, hipaa, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Health IT, ARRA, HIMSS, ONC, Medicaid, health information exchange, Articles, HHS, HITECH Act, Stage 2, EHR Incentive Program, Farzad Mostashari, MU, Meaningful Use Stage 2, population health, Higher education, Higher Ed, Stage 1, incentive payment program, health information exchange standards, meaningful use incentive program, EHR incentive payouts, National Coordinator for Health IT, Health Information Management and Systems Society, health data exchange, patient information, compatible coding
ONC announces five organizations to serve as EHR certifiers

In preparation for the launching of ONC's permanent EHR system testing and certification program, part of the EHR incentive payment initiative, ONC has authorized five groups as permanent EHR certifiers. Via Modern Healthcare : Even though the new...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2012 2:37 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Medicare, hipaa, electronic health record, ARRA, ONC, Medicaid, Articles, American National Standards Institute, HHS, HITECH Act, Privacy & Security, EHR Incentive Program, Higher education, Higher Ed, EHR system, National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program, EHR certifiers, testing laboratories, certification program, incentive payment program, testing and certifying, EHR testing, Stage 1 certification, accredited
As Stage 2 Approaches, Important Stage 1 Opportunities Still at Hand

The meaningful use stage 2 Final Rule is expected to be released later this summer, but don’t lose sight of the Stage 1 opportunities still available. ONC Director Farzad Mostashari recently announced that more than 100,000 healthcare providers have been...

Published Tue, Jun 06 2012 11:16 AM by BlogEHR

Filed under: Medicare, Meaningful Use, EHR, Healthcare, ONC, Medicaid, Greenway EMR, Greenway Medical, Incentive, Guest Blogger, Infographic, Stage 2 Final Rule, meaningful use infographic
CMS Releases January 2012 EHR Incentive Program Data and Reports

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) recently released January 2012 Data and Reports for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Programs. The reports indicate that the EHR programs have surpassed another major...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2012 5:37 PM by Ethan W. Moore

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, electronic health record, EHR, Healthcare, HITECH, ARRA, ONC, Medicaid, HIT, Health information technology, attestation, Healthcare News, Health care, HHS, Incentive payments, HITECH Act, Health Care Reform, EHR incentive, Incentive Program, Ethan W. Moore, Ethan Moore, EHR Incentive Programs, Registration, Attest, Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
Trusting Government: A Tale Of Two Federal Advisory Groups

Published Fri, Feb 02 2012 4:50 AM by The Doctor Weighs In

Filed under: Medicare, HITECH, ONC, electronic health records, Physicians, HITPC, People in healthcare, RUC, David Kibbe, physician payment, Health care & health policy, Politics & public policy, Klepper, Federal Advisory Committee Act
How Much Can You Earn And Which States Are Paying?

If you are trying to determine right now if you would meet the criteria needed for attestation, CMS has added a handy calculator to their site. http://www.cms.gov/apps/ehr/meaningful-use-core-measures-professionals.aspx Remember that to get paid for Medicaid...

Published Wed, Aug 08 2011 6:36 PM by blog.DrFirst

Filed under: Medicare, CMS, Meaningful Use, EMR, Health IT, Healthcare, DrFirst, eprescribing incentives, healthcare IT, ARRA, ARRA HITECH, E-Prescribing, ONC, ROI, e-prescribing standards, Rcopia, Electronic prescribing, Medicaid, eRx
DrFirst Partners With Minority Physician Associations to Bridge the Digital Divide

DrFirst has recently partnered with the National Hispanic Medical Association (NHMA) and the Association of Black Cardiologists (ABC) to help close “the digital divide” that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health (ONC) warned is preventing...

Published Tue, Aug 08 2011 3:22 PM by blog.DrFirst

Filed under: Medicare, Meaningful Use, Health IT, Healthcare, DrFirst, eprescribing incentives, healthcare IT, E-Prescribing, ONC, ROI, e-prescribing standards, Rcopia, Medicaid, eRx, HHS, Technology, pharmacies, abc, nma, nhma, minority
Medicare EHR incentives attestation to begin on April 18, 2011

CMS announced that the online Attestation System for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program will launch on April 18, 2011. Eligible professionals and eligible hospitals will be able to use this online portal to self-attest to meeting the Meaningful Use criteria...

Published Tue, Mar 03 2011 3:19 PM by Health IT Law Blog

Filed under: news, Medicare, CMS, EHR, ARRA, ONC, Medicaid, attestation, Articles, HITECH Act, EHR incentive, meaingful use, Attestation System, preview, program

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