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EHR Innovation & Regulation: Friends or Foes?

August 16, 2017

The following is a guest blog post by Stephen Dart, Sr. Director of Product Management at AdvancedMD. Healthcare insiders often point out how far behind the...

OpenEMR Achieves Complete Meaningful Use Certification with Release 5.0

March 2, 2017

RUTLAND, Vt., March 1, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — OpenEMR, the most popular open source electronic health records (EHR) and medical practice management...

EHR Incentive Programs: Where We Go Next (Message from Andy Slavitt and Karen DeSalvo)

January 19, 2016

Where We’ve Been As we mentioned in a speech last week, the Administration is working on an important transition for the Electronic Health Record (EHR)...

EHR Interoperability Breakthrough Powers Referrals, Care Coordination and Clinically Integrated Networks

November 19, 2015

Infina Connect announces universal electronic exchange of clinical documents, greatly reducing the need for costly interfaces and private HIE’s to support...

HHS issues rules to advance electronic health records with added simplicity and flexibility

October 6, 2015

Public comment period offers forum to gather additional feedback and inform future policies The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Office...

Great Meaningful Use and Eligible Providers Chat

April 29, 2015

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I recently received an email from a regular reader, Dr. Mike, who owns a single specialty ortho group. In the email Dr. Mike talks about the challenges that...

Meaningful Use Reporting Period Changed to 90 Days and Other Proposed Changes

April 10, 2015

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In case you missed the news, CMS posted the proposed rule that modifies meaningful use in 2015-2017 (Here’s the rule on the Federal Register). The 210...

Rule to Change MU Reporting Period to 90 Days is Issued

April 10, 2015

Today, CMS issued a new proposed rule for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs to align Stage 1 and Stage 2 objectives and measures with the long...

Meaningful Use Is Dead?

January 29, 2015

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Over on EMR and HIPAA, I got the following passionate response on my post titled Meaningful Use Created A Big Need for Certified MAs that I thought many...