HIMSS' 7 Tips for Responding to a Meaningful Use Audit CMS has begun its first wave of required retrospective audits for those providers paid under the “meaningful use” EHR incentive program. Tips to … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 27, 2012
Meaningful Use Participants Begin Receiving Audit Letters From Contractor The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has begun conducting audits to determine compliance with “meaningful use” … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 20, 2012
U.S. Doctors Embracing Electronic Health Records: Survey A majority of U.S. physicians have now adopted an electronic health record system as part of their routine practice, a new national survey … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Round Up :: July 13, 2012
Health Technology and Patient-Centered Principles Shown to Improve Care According to the bulk of evidence published during the last 14 years, using both patient-centered care principles and health … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: July 6, 2012
The American Medical Association’s President-Elect on the Future of Health Care Ardis Hoven is an HIV specialist-based in Lexington, Ky. who, last month, became president-elect of the American … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT news Roundup :: June 29, 2012
Docs Who Used EHRs Showed Lower Malpractice Claims A study by Harvard Medical School researchers, published Monday in the Archives of Internal Medicine, showed that Massachusetts physicians who used … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: June 22, 2012
EHR Adoption Rate Exceeds Expectations The federal Department of Health and Human Resources reached its year-end goal for meaningful use of electronic health records seven months early, HHS officials … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup :: June 15, 2012
Meaningful Use’s Stage 2: A Recipe for Failure The proposed next stage of the EHR incentive program promises to be so burdensome as to discourage embracing the technology it is attempting to … [Read more...]
