Physician groups and hospitals pursuing meaningful use can have surprises crop up from three main sources — audits, vendors and employees — according to Sharon Stewart, senior consultant in clinical ...

On Jan. 11, the first day of J.P. Morgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said, “The Meaningful ...

There is a little known but potential Stage 1 Meaningful Use nightmare for Eligible Professionals (EPs) who are preparing for Meaningful Use attestation for the CMS EHR incentives. The attestation ...

One of the most mis-understood Meaningful Use core measures for EPs is the objective to: “Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit”. The required measure threshold for this ...

At last week's Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) summit in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., panelists Doris Crain, vice president and CIO of Broward Health; Jeanette Schreiber, medical ...

The American Medical Association has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to pause its meaningful use program, due to the risk it places on a health system's ability to carry out new models of ...

The EHR Incentive Program, often dubbed “Meaningful Use”, has been surrounded by questions and confusion among anesthesiologists and practice administrators since its inception. Currently, the ...

"The different stages of growth, development and socialization of childhood require different meaningful use criteria that must be developed carefully for the diverse pediatric patient population." ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Six out of 10 radiologists plan to use electronic health records and achieve "meaningful use" standards, but only 6 percent think they have a good understanding of what meaningful use means, a new ...

Enough talk about information technology's use in the practice of medicine. Health IT must become the practice of medicine. Industry rhetoric revolves around deadlines, delays and debates about health ...