The “Official” ONC/CMS Audio conference call on the EHR stimulus programs. Don’t want to miss this one!
ONC Certification and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs:
Final Rules
How will they impact you?
The Centers for Medicare...
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Today, I thought it would be interesting to list the meaningful use final rule comments that I know of and to invite my readers to tell me about other meaningful use final rule commentary that they know about. Just reply in the comments of this post or...
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Today, I thought it would be interesting to list the meaningful use webinars that I know of and to invite my readers to tell me about other meaningful use webinars that they know about. Just reply in the comments of this post or on the EMR and HIPAA contact...
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As you can imagine my inbox has been kind of blown up with all the people talking about the final meaningful use rule. It’s going to take a bit to really digest what the final rule will mean for healthcare and EMR in general. I’m still trying...
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This morning HHS held a live webcast (I guess it’s a news conference?) announcing the final meaningful use rule. Unfortunately, it was a little early for me on the west coast (the life of a blogger), but I caught the second half of the webcast....
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This just came in. The wait is finally over. I guess I know what I’m doing tomorrow.
CMS AND ONC TO ISSUE FINAL RULES ON MEANINGFUL USE AND STANDARDS AND CERTIFICATION FOR ELECTRONIC HEALTH RECORDS INCENTIVE PROGRAM
WHAT: CMS and ONC will host a...
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Question: My EMR claims to have all of the capabilities they will need to demonstrate meaningful use and qualify for ARRA incentives. Does that mean I will get the EMR stimulus money?
First of all, you might want to consider another EMR vendor. If they...
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No one asked (well at least not publicly), but I wanted to share my opinions on what EMR vendors should be doing in regards to EHR certification. I guess you could say this is a small sample of the advice I’d offer as an EMR vendor advisor albeit...
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On my twitter stream I was getting a number of skeptics around my previous post about meaningful use and EHR certification being simplified by CMS. They seemed a bit surprised that CMS would simplify meaningful EHR use.
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In my ongoing series of posts from Marc Probst’s visit to Las Vegas (you can see my first post here), these next comments by Marc were really interesting. Marc said, “The guesses are good that CMS will dilute meaningful use.”
I also...
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