Three States Take Lead in EHR Incentive Program The federal funding tap is open, and Electronic Health Record Incentive Program dollars are flowing, at least to qualified participants on the … [Read more...]
The Middle of the Order: 5 at 50% (part 1)
Over the past several months I have reviewed a number of topics related to demonstrating meaningful use. As you may recall, the meaningful use framework is divided into core and menu objectives. There … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: January 21, 2011
Norman Physician Becomes Nation's First to Receive Federal Stimulus for Electronic Medical Records Physician Cynthia Taylor receives an initial payment of $21,250 from the Electronic Health Record … [Read more...]
Where’s Waldo? Registering for the CMS EHR Incentive Program
CMS opened registration for the EHR Incentive Program (aka Meaningful Use) on January 3. The registration site apparently received quite a bit of traffic on day 1 as over 4,000 providers registered. I … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: January 14, 2011
CMS Counts 4,000 Providers Initially Registering for EHR Incentives In the first four days since its launch, about 4,000 healthcare providers initiated registration for the electronic health record … [Read more...]
E-prescribing & CPOE: 2 Birds, 1 Stone
Over the past few months we have explored a number of the meaningful use objectives within the CMS EHR incentive program. Here, I’d like to review two closely related stage 1 core objectives: … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: January 7, 2011
Health Spending Rose in ’09, but at a Low Rate Total national health spending grew by 4 percent in 2009, the slowest rate of increase in 50 years, as people lost their jobs, lost health insurance and … [Read more...]
CERTIFIED!
Last week our company reached an important milestone; we successfully attained ONC-ATCB 2011/2012 COMPLETE EHR certification. Acumen will be added to the CMS List of Certified EHR Technology (the … [Read more...]
