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” program reporting rules. Although CMS has not formally announced the start of the meaningful use audits, it has said they were imminent.
How to Communicate Well with a Patient While Working on an EHR
Though the potential for this technology to improve care is great, EHRs could be the source of a communication breakdown between patients and physicians.
‘Age Is Just a Number’ — Does It Hold True for EHR Adoption?
A recent Health Affairs study found that in 2011 30.8% of physicians older than age 55 were using a basic EHR system, compared with 40% of doctors younger than age 40 and 35.5% of doctors ages 40 to 55.
Whose Job Is It to Create the Future?
Predicting where EHRs are going is, of course, more than just a hobby for many people in the healthcare sector. But a question that, in our view, merits equal time is, “Whose responsibility is it to move things forward?”
Seattle Researchers to Engineer Kidney Tissue Chip for Predicting Drug Safety
Seattle researchers will be part of the new federal initiative to engineer 3-dimensional chips containing living cells and tissues that imitate the structure and function of human organs. These tissue chips will be used for drug safety testing.
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