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EHR Incentive Programs: Meaningful Use Creating a New Role for RIS?

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Meaningful Use Creating a New Role for RIS? The radiology information system, or RIS, has long been the work horse of the imaging group practice, handling such functions as scheduling, demographics collection, even billing and results reporting. Now, under the meaningful use program, the RIS is taking on a new level of importance: Some radiology groups are using their RIS as the backbone of their participation in the incentive program. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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EHR Incentive Programs: Extension of Enforcement Discretion Period for Updated HIPAA transaction standards through June 30, 2012

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Friday, March 16, 2012. Extension of Enforcement Discretion Period for Updated HIPAA transaction standards through June 30, 2012. Health plans, clearinghouses, providers and software vendors have been making steady progress: the Medicare Fee-for-Service (FFS) program is currently reporting successful receipt and processing of over 70 percent of all Part A claims and over 90 percent of all Part B claims in the Version 5010 format. Commercial plans are reporting similar numbers. State Medicaid agen...Cover...

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EHR Incentive Programs: CMS Nears $2 Billion in Meaningful Use Payments

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. CMS Nears $2 Billion in Meaningful Use Payments. Through November 2011, Medicare and Medicaid have each paid nearly $1 billion in electronic health records meaningful use incentive payments during the first year of the program. Medicare has paid $920.3 million and Medicaid has chipped in an estimated $916 million, according to figures from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services presented Dec. 7 to the HIT Policy Committee. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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EHR Incentive Programs: Sharing the Lessons of Meaningful Use

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Thursday, September 29, 2011. Sharing the Lessons of Meaningful Use. On one level, the meaningful use electronic record incentive program is all about the money. Many providers, especially small practices, jumped head first into the program because the financial incentives made it possible to automate at little or no cost-if they got those incentive checks. The trek to meaningful use has produced numerous technological and workplace lessons for those who have done it, but this is just the first step in a...

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EHR Incentive Programs: Athenahealth Dashboard Tracks MU Progress, Issues

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Thursday, September 29, 2011. Athenahealth Dashboard Tracks MU Progress, Issues. Physician software and billing services vendor athenahealth Inc. has introduced an online dashboard that clients using its electronic health records system- and users of other EHR systems- can use to assess the progress athenahealth users are making in meeting EHR meaningful use requirements. The dashboard gives data- updated bi-weekly- on physicians' performance on each meaningful use measure. For instance, the dashboar...

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EHR Incentive Programs: Vendors Add Products to Meaningful Use Certified EHR Lists

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Tuesday, October 25, 2011. Vendors Add Products to Meaningful Use Certified EHR Lists. Three electronic health records vendors recently received federally deemed certification of products meeting one or more Stage 1 meaningful use requirements. They are:. GE Healthcare's Centricity Patient Online portal, version 12.0, as an EHR Module from Drummond Group;. IntrinsiQ's IntelliDose oncology CPOE, version 3.9, as an EHR Module from Drummond Group; and. HDM Breaking News, October 11, 2011.

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EHR Incentive Programs: Expect These Unexpected EHR Challenges

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Tuesday, December 27, 2011. Expect These Unexpected EHR Challenges. We all know the expected challenges of implementing an electronic health record - not having enough time, money or resources to go around. However, unexpected challenges are more likely to throw a wrench in your EHR implementation timeline and budget. The following four challenges are common, but usually unexpected. Getting Dictation Data in Discretely. Creating Security Access for Smaller Practices. Defining a Naming Convention. Once ev...

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EHR Incentive Programs: CMS Issues Final Medicare E-Prescribing Rule

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Thursday, September 1, 2011. CMS Issues Final Medicare E-Prescribing Rule. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has issued a final rule making changes to Medicare's Electronic Prescribing Incentive program. The rule is available now and will be published in the Federal Register on Sept. 6. The deadline for submitting hardship exemption requests, detailed in the final rule, is Nov. 1, 2011. HDM Breaking News, August 31, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). CHIME: Slow Down on Tying Metadata...

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EHR Incentive Programs: Study: CPOE Requirements in MU Stages 2 and 3 May Cut Mortality

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Friday, September 30, 2011. Study: CPOE Requirements in MU Stages 2 and 3 May Cut Mortality. A new study published in Health Affairs suggests that Stage 1 meaningful use criteria for use of computerized physician order entry systems is probably too low to significantly lower mortality rates among heart patients, but higher levels of mandated use in Stages 2 and 3 "is more consistently associated with lower mortality.". HDM Breaking News, September 15, 2011. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). New Patient...