Tag Archives: ONC

EMRs Have Certifications Yanked

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Anne Zieger

A California EMR developer has become the first to have its certification for Meaningful Use taken away by the ONC. EHRMagic-Ambulatory and EHRMagic-Inpatient, both of which were developed by Santa Fe Springs, Calif.-based EMRMagic, failed to meet certification requirements, reports EMR … 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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ONC Proposes New EMR Vendor Fee

Posted on April 12, 2013 by Anne Zieger

It looks like federal budget balancing fervor could soon have an impact on EMR vendors (See also this post on EHR Incentive and Sequestration). As part of President Obama’s current budget proposal, the ONC is suggesting that health IT vendors … Continue reading →

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Best Of Breed Systems Lead In Battle For Meaningful Use Dollars

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Anne Zieger

This week, Modern Healthcare published a very interesting analysis of ONC and CMS data on which vendors were used for Meaningful Use attestation.  The results suggest that the battle for market dominance may be closer than it looks when it comes … Continue reading →

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HHS announces 2013 Healthcare IT Agenda

Posted on March 8, 2013 by John

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Marilyn Tavenner and the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology Farzad Mostashari, M.D., today announced HHS’s plan to accelerate health information exchange (HIE) and build a seamless and secure flow of … Continue reading →

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EHR Association Responds to HIT Policy Committee Request for Comments on Stage 3 Meaningful Use

Posted on February 6, 2013 by John

The EHR Association has responded to the HIT Policy Committee’s Request for Comments on Stage 3 meaningful use requirements through their usual workgroup-led collaborative effort, with representatives from 24 of our 41 member companies working on this effort. The Association’s … Continue reading →

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ICSA Labs Set to Begin Testing EHRs for Stage 2 Meaningful Use Requirements

Posted on January 16, 2013 by John

MECHANICSBURG, Pa. – ICSA Labs, an independent division of Verizon, is now officially authorized and accredited to begin certifying electronic health records for the next stage of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Meaningful Use requirements. The new … Continue reading →

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MU Stage 3 Comment Period and Hospital EHR Attestation Deadline Approaching

Posted on November 27, 2012 by John

HIT Policy Committee sent out an email with a request for comments on meaningful use stage 3. Here’s the email that was sent out: Speak up now to help ONC’s Health Information Technology Policy Committee (HITPC) develop Stage 3 meaningful … Continue reading →

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Contest Offers Prizes For CCD Redesign

Posted on November 19, 2012 by Anne Zieger

When EMRs are the gossip of the week at TechCrunch (a popular tech startup website), you know our little EMR thang has gone mainstream. And TechCrunch is indeed one of a series of sites trumpeting the news of a design … Continue reading →

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EMR Overbilling Investigations Sling Mud At Meaningful Use Program

Posted on October 31, 2012 by Anne Zieger

In the wake of an expose in The New York Times claiming that upcoding and overbilling was increasing with the use of EMRs, and members of Congress riding the claim, I guess ONC had no choice but to take the allegations seriously. … Continue reading →

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