CMS Gives New EHR Meaningful Use Guidance The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has released guidance covering some of the nuances of attesting for meaningful use of electronic health … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 14, 2011
Meaningful Use Should Be Driven by Clinical Quality, Not Mechanics As the CMS meaningful use incentive program moves out of Stage 1 and into Stages 2 and 3, concerns are arising as to whether there … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: October 7, 2011
It May Be the Information Age, But Patients Still Want Face Time The future of health care may be driven by robotic clinicians, mobile medical apps and remote encounters with human caregivers. But … [Read more...]
Weekly Nephrology/Health IT News Roundup: September 30, 2011
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...]
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...]
