Tag Archives: EHR Incentive

Hospital EHR Subsidies

Posted on May 17, 2013 by John

In response to Anne’s post on Senator’s questioning the meaningful use EHR incentive money, Gary Colvin emailed me the following comment: I would argue for the case where the only reason some providers are in the M.U. game is due … Continue reading →

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EHR Certification Revoked for EHRMagic

Posted on April 26, 2013 by John

Yesterday HHS released news that they’d revoked the EHR certification of the EHRMagic-Ambulatory and EHRMagic-Inpatient EHR software. Looks like InoGard originally certified the EHR and they and ONC received information that had them retest the EHR software and it failed … Continue reading →

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EHR Incentive Money and Sequestration Update

Posted on April 11, 2013 by John

At HIMSS, the news was tweeted out about the impact of Sequestration on Meaningful Use and EHR incentive money. I’d seen little other details about the impact of sequestration on the EHR incentive money until now. CMS just sent out … Continue reading →

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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Final Rule Published

Posted on August 23, 2012 by John

UPDATE: For those not wanting to go through all 672 pages of the meaningful use stage 2 final rule, ONC has put out this summary PDF. Today, CMS publishes the meaningful use Stage 2 Final rule in the Federal Register. … Continue reading →

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Hospital EHR Incentive Makes the Rich Richer

Posted on July 10, 2012 by John

A few months back, Anne Zieger did a post discussing AHA’s comments that the Meaningful Use schedule is too ambitious that started me thinking about what’s really happening with the EHR incentive money. Think about the hospitals that were best … Continue reading →

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REC Numbers for REACH (Minnesota and North Dakota Doctors)

Posted on June 7, 2012 by Katie

For those not familiar with the RECs (Regional Extension Centers), REACH, a nonprofit federal Health Information Technology Regional Extension Center, helps providers and clinics throughout Minnesota and North Dakota to either optimize current EHR or implement EHR into their practice. … Continue reading →

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Mobile Health Reduces Costs

Posted on April 24, 2012 by John

It’s a catchy headline that everyone must read. The problem is that the evidence is still not there to prove this type of headline. Sure, we’ve seen a ton of encouraging signs with mobile health. In fact, I’m also quite … Continue reading →

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EMR Sales at $18 Billion in 2011

Posted on March 23, 2012 by John

Healthcare Financial News posted the following number of the EMR market. Propelled by government incentives, a desire to improve patient outcomes and the bottom line, sales of electronic medical records reached $17.9 billion in 2011, up 14.2 percent from the … Continue reading →

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Farzad Mostashari’s Post on Meaningful Use Stage 2 NPRM

Posted on February 27, 2012 by John

I love that Farzad Mostashari and other people at HHS and ONC have been blogging about these exciting times in healthcare IT. Farzad recently did a post about the meaningful use stage 2 NPRM (see this Meaningful Use Monday post … Continue reading →

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Greenway Medical Users Get $5 Million in EHR Incentive Money

Posted on November 21, 2011 by John

Still tallying but @GreenwayMedical customers have received almost $5 Million in #EHR #MeaningfulUse Incentives @ONC_HealthIT #HealthIT #EMR November 19, 2011 12:02 pm via webReplyRetweetFavorite @HITAdvisor Justin Barnes Back at the end of August I posted the Cerner EHR incentive money … Continue reading →

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