On Feb. 23, 2012, CMS released its proposed rule for Stage 2 requirements for the Medicare and Medicaid Electronic Health Record Incentive Programs. The Stage 2 rule included criteria eligible ...

In the letter, PPR has outlined recommendations for the proposed set of stage 2 meaningful use requirements, including the need to implement segmentation functionalities and consent technologies.

Stage 2 of the federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program is underway for providers who first reached Stage 1 in 2011. Although there will not be any official statistics available for several ...

CMS’ extension of the Meaningful Use Stage 2 attestation deadline reaffirms that the ICD-10 Oct. 1, 2014, deadline is not going to change, according to a Healthcare IT News report. Experts said the ...

Among the commenters publicly weighing in on the meaningful use Stage 2 notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM), the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) focused on public and population health (PDF).

With the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid and Office of the National Coordinator recently releasing the proposed requirements for Stage 2 meaningful use and 2014 certification of electronic health ...

Aprima Medical Software has selected the Kno2™ interoperability platform to enable its physician practices to easily and cost-effectively meet the requirements for electronic transmission of ...

Should you get a new EHR, even though you probably paid a fortune for your current EHR just recently? "There's an economy lesson here on first movers' disadvantage," Peters offers by way of ...

As I've described previously, Meaningful Use Stage 1 was focused on the electronic capture of data into EHRs. The standards we specified included content and vocabulary but not transport. Stage 2 will ...

During a recent meeting with the American Society of Anesthesiologists, the Office of the National Coordinator acknowledged that Stage 1 meaningful use requirements will not be modified for any ...

Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day ...