Attestations and payments for Meaningful Use of electronic health records, while off to a slow start, are starting to increase in volume. Year-to-date, under the Meaningful Use program, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services payouts are just under $400 million. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/ehr-meaningful-use-payments-increasing-steadily/#more-1401" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading EHR Meaningful Use Payments Increasing Steadily">(more…)</span></a>
With less than 90 days until the end of 2011, providers who are eligible for stimulus funding from the <a href="https://www.cms.gov/ehrincentiveprograms/30_Meaningful_Use.asp" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">CMS EHR Incentive Program</a> should already be in the midst of their attestation period. To qualify for meaningful use funds in 2011, you must report stage 1 meaningful use compliance for a consecutive 90-day period. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/still-time-to-get-ehr-meaningful-use-stage-1-dollars/#more-1399" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Still Time to Get EHR Meaningful Use Stage 1 Dollars">(more…)</span></a>
It’s time to check in on the CMS Medicare EHR Meaningful Use Incentive Program timetable: <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/cms-medicare-ehr-incentive-program-deadlines/#more-1393" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading CMS Medicare EHR Incentive Program Deadlines">(more…)</span></a>
According to iHealthBeat, about 13,000 eligible health care providers signed up in August for the meaningful use program, an increase of 30% from July. That’s in addition to the 90,000 health care providers that had registered for the electronic health record meaningful use incentive program by the end of August. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/ehr-meaningful-use-registrations-on-the-rise/#more-1387" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading EHR Meaningful Use Registrations On the Rise">(more…)</span></a>
Many physicians have funded their electronic health record (EHR) purchases with the CMS meaningful use incentive payments. Take a look at this article, written by Joseph Goedert and published by Health Data Management earlier this month. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/subsidizing-ehr-purchases-with-meaningful-use-dollars/#more-1381" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Subsidizing EHR Purchases with Meaningful Use Dollars">(more…)</span></a>
The Office of Clinical Quality and Standards at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) will host a webinar from 1-3pm EST on August 30th to explain the clinical quality measures in the Medicare electronic health records meaningful use program. <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/cms-to-explain-meaningful-use-clinical-quality-measures-on-aug-30th/#more-1371" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading CMS to Explain Meaningful Use Clinical Quality Measures on Aug. 30th">(more…)</span></a>
Achieving meaningful use of an electronic health record (EHR) is not the only deadline facing medical practices. By federal mandate, in January of 2012, practices must process claims in the new 5010 format, <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/to-keep-or-replace-sage-medical-manager-to-comply-with-meaningful-use-and-5010icd-10-that-is-the-question/#more-1359" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading To Keep or Replace Sage Medical Manager® to comply with ‘Meaningful Use’ and 5010/ICD-10? THAT is the Question.">(more…)</span></a>
According to an article published yesterday in HealthLeaders Media, Farzad Mostashari, MD, the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, laid out a list of leading IT growth indicators at a recent National Health IT Summit in Washington DC: <a href="https://www.harmonyhit.com/health-it-growth-indicators-from-the-national-coordinator-for-health-information-technology/#more-1351" class="more-link"><span aria-label="Continue reading Health IT Growth Indicators from the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology">(more…)</span></a>