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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has laid out the details for how it will raise the bar for healthcare providers to qualify for incentives with the release Feb. 23 of its proposed rule for Stage 2 of meaningful use of electronic health...

Health Data Management is now accepting nominations for its 2nd Annual EHR Game Changers recognition program, created to honor individuals who have been true game changers in the design, advocacy, deployment and development of electronic health records...

Physicians understand the potential of health information technology to help improve patient care, and doctors are willing to work with the federal government through incentive programs designed to encourage more practices to go paperless. But the...

By Joseph Conn The CMS has announced the awarding of a total of just over $9 million in matching funds to be used by four states to plan for their Medicaid programs to subsidize provider purchases and the use of electronic health-record systems under...

By Neil Versel If nothing else, it should at least be easy to register to receive federal incentive payments for meaningful use of EMRs. CMS has awarded a $1.6 million contract to CGI Federal, a Fairfax, Va.-based unit of Montreal-based technology...

Health care industry experts expect recent policy changes to spur more physicians to start prescribing medications electronically in the coming years, the Wall Street Journal reports. Trends in E-Prescribing A recent report from the electronic...

On Thursday, CMS awarded federal stimulus funding to six state Medicaid programs for planning activities related to the implementation of an electronic health record incentive program, AHA News reports. Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act...

CMS must pay special attention to ensure that the final version of the proposed "meaningful use" rule for electronic health records fits with other rules for standards and certification, as well at the interim final rule for the certification of EHRs,...

The American Academy of Family Physicians is calling for significant changes to "meaningful use" criteria that will be used to determine whether health care providers are eligible for federal subsidies for health IT usage, Modern Healthcare reports. In...

By, Diana Manos WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations. The funding is allotted under The American Recovery and Reinvestment...

Practices that have been waiting for CMS to define the term “meaningful use” are finally in luck. But as is always the case when the feds are involved, don’t look for a quick one-sentence definition. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Bill of...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) encourage public comment on two regulations issued today that lay a foundation for improving quality, efficiency and...

Last week, CMS released proposed regulations defining the "meaningful use" of electronic health records, Reuters reports (Wutkowski/Heavey, Reuters, 12/31/09). In addition, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released an interim final...

Article by Ryan The HITECH Stimulus Act is legislation designed to promote the adoption of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) among physicians. Passed near the beginning of 2009, the HITECH Act will reimburse qualified physicians who purchase and...

After federal officials publish an interim rule on the "meaningful use" of electronic health records, the Health IT Standards Committee will use public comments to shape a final version of the rule, according to John Halamka, vice chair of the committee,...