Meaningful Use Incentive Payments Top $2.5 Billion According to CMS, Federal and state governments have paid providers more than $2.5 billion in incentive payments for meaningful use of electronic … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: January 6, 2012
Why Meaningful Use Of EHRs Matters: A Field Report Two daily users of EHR systems, who understand the concerns of naysayers, share a real-life clinical situation involving a nephrologist that … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT New Roundup: December 30, 2011
CMS: EHR Incentive Payments Jump in November The Medicare and Medicaid electronic health-record incentive payment programs have picked up steam heading into the new year. A Look Back at the … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: December 23, 2011
HHS Plans Database on EHR Incentive Program Participants HHS plans to create a national database that will contain information about office-based healthcare providers participating in federally … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: December 16, 2011
6 Health IT Usability Myths and Realities A lot has been said about usability, whether it’s in regard to EHRs or other healthcare apps. Shahid Shah, software IT analyst and author of the blog The … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: December 2, 2011
HHS Intends to Delay Stage 2 of Meaningful Use The Department of Health and Human Services intends to delay until fiscal year 2014 (Oct. 1, 2013) the proposed start of Stage 2 meaningful use … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: November 26, 2011
Is ICD-10 More Important Than Meaningful Use? Advisory Board health IT boss Dave Garets tells CIOs to make ICD-10 compliance their top priority because more money is at stake. Digital … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: November 18, 2011
Meaningful Use Needs Patient Safety Reports, Say Experts Contributors to the Institute of Medicine's report on health IT say that Meaningful Use regs should require submission of electronic health … [Read more...]
