I spent part of this past weekend holiday shopping with my wife. This is a bit out of character as I typically wait until the very last minute when the pressure is on. As the year draws to a close, … [Read more...]
The Physician Quality Reporting System
This time of year bears witness to many changes. The autumn foliage has come and gone, the Cowboys and Vikings will finish the season with new coaches, and PQRI has a new name. Okay, perhaps these … [Read more...]
Dialysis Patients and the Meaningful Use Objectives
The CMS EHR Incentive program contains a hurdle of special interest to the nephrologist, which I will refer to as the “50% rule.” Effectively this rule states that in order to be eligible for the … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use and the High Threshold Objectives
Recently I reviewed the framework CMS is using for the EHR incentive program. You may recall that many of the meaningful use objectives have thresholds which must be met in order to successfully … [Read more...]
The Nephrologist and the Future of PQRI
Over the past several weeks I have received questions from some of our customers regarding the future of PQRI. As a bit of background, the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) has its origin … [Read more...]
E-prescribing and the CMS EHR Incentive Program
Last week I reviewed the stand-alone CMS e-prescribing incentive program. Today I want to explore e-prescribing in the context of the new CMS EHR incentive. E-Rx is one of the core meaningful use … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use: The Privacy and Security Objective
There are several meaningful use objectives within the CMS EHR incentive program that may not be crystal clear. One of the foggiest, from my vantage point, is what I call the Privacy and Security … [Read more...]
Meaningful Use Objectives for 2011 & 2012
Successfully demonstrating meaningful use and qualifying for the EHR incentive program requires the physician to report a number of meaningful use objectives to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid … [Read more...]
