CMS Issues Reminders About Meaningful Use Program Deadlines The end is near! CMS is reminding health care providers about upcoming deadlines for attesting to meaningful use of electronic health … [Read more...]
RPA’s Public Policy in a Minute :: September 2011
Renal Physicians Association Public Policy in a Minute for September, with Rob Blaser, Director of Public Policy. … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 19, 2011
CHIME: Don't Tie Metadata to Meaningful Use The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives is counseling federal health information technology policy makers to go slowly and not tie the … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 16, 2011
Hardship Waivers Last Chance to Avoid Medicare E-prescribing Penalty An estimated 100,000 physicians and other health professionals at risk for being hit with Medicare electronic prescribing program … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 9, 2011
Top 7 Meaningful Use Myths Debunked Rarely have two words garnered as much attention from healthcare professionals as "meaningful use" has in recent years. Yet despite the volume of the discussion, … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 2, 2011
CMS Releases E-prescribing Incentive Program Final Rule On Wednesday, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final rule modifying the Medicare Electronic Prescribing Incentive … [Read more...]
Charting a Course for EHR Implementation
In this post, guest blogger Beth Shaw shares tips on how to successfully implement an EHR and attest all practice physicians to meaningful use. Beth is Administrator at Illinois Kidney Disease and … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: August 26, 2011
EHRs More Reliable than Medicaid Claims on Care Quality, Study Says A new study shows that electronic health records can provide new opportunities for obtaining more comprehensive data regarding … [Read more...]
