By Brian Robinson, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still on target to publish by the end of the year a proposed rule on the meaningful use of electronic health records, despite growing fears from industry about the possible impact of the regulation. Tony Trenkle, director of the Office of e-Health Standards and Services at CMS, said he had been spending a lot of time with health industry [...]
By Brian Robinson, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is still on target to publish by the end of the year a proposed rule on the meaningful use of electronic health records, despite growing fears from industry about the possible impact of the regulation. Tony Trenkle, director of the Office of e-Health Standards and Services at CMS, said he had been spending a lot of time with health industry [...]
Recently enacted government mandates requiring healthcare practices to switch to electronic health records (EHR) have created a huge demand for EHR systems and services. And since the mandates offer both incentives for early adoption and penalties for delaying EHR conversion, many chiropractors are highly motivated to purchase and install such systems as quickly as possible. However, it’s vital DCs do their homework before going paperless. All EHR systems use advanced [...]
The plan will rely on federal grants and build on previous state efforts to expand health IT adoption in underserved rural areas. By Pamela Lewis Dolan, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed into law a bill that would create a loan program for physicians and hospitals hoping to buy an electronic health record system. The Electronic Health Records Loan Program Act, signed July 9, gives the Louisiana Dept. of Health and [...]
By: Howard Anderson, HDM Breaking News Although the federal economic stimulus package will spur an increase in spending on clinical applications in the months ahead, many hospitals and clinics are now taking their time studying their options, two researchers say. “The steady drumbeat of inevitability is changing the debate from not ‘if’ we’ll get an electronic health record but ‘when’,” says Eric Brown, research director at Forrester Research Inc., Cambridge, [...]
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