According to HIMSS, meaningful use was the no. 1 priority of hospital information technology departments for 2011, and is likely to continue as a top concern. Meaningful use of certified health ...

Recently published information on meaningful use clinical quality measures and their associated value sets as well as the meaningful use core and menu objectives have been loaded to the United States ...

One of the most mis-understood Meaningful Use core measures for EPs is the objective to: “Provide clinical summaries for patients for each office visit”. The required measure threshold for this ...

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services ("CMS") yesterday released the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking setting forth the "Stage 2" requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health ...

Greater flexibility with respect to eligible professionals and hospitals in meeting and reporting certain objectives for demonstrating meaningful use. The final rule divides the objectives into a ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

For health care professionals who began accepting Meaningful Use incentive money at the outset of availability under the Medicare option in 2011, the year 2015 is an important year. If the provider ...

In August, federal officials released the final Stage 2 rule for Meaningful Use. The second stage calls for hospitals, physicians, and other 'eligible providers' to increase interoperability of health ...

Hospitals and clinicians around the country are working to implement electronic heath records (EHR) and demonstrate Meaningful Use. While the focus is on the technology involved, there are objectives ...

New Findings from University of Illinois in the Area of Type 2 Diabetes Reported (Impact of electronic diabetes registry 'Meaningful Use' on quality of care and hospital utilization) By a News ...

Feb. 28, 2011, ALEXANDRIA, VA-The American Medical Group Association (AMGA), a trade association representing multispecialty medical groups and other organized systems of care, today released its ...