As in any endeavor, developing a simple strategy to combat complex issues will bring faster results. Take meaningful use, as specified under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, for example.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has just issued a proposed rule that will make it more difficult than ever for anesthesiologists and pain physicians to qualify for the Medicare or ...

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 ...

A recent webinar discussed how the upcoming meaningful use requirements apply to and will impact ambulatory surgery centers, as well as eligible hospital and professionals, as they relate to ...

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...

A newly proposed bill garnering the support of several medical associations would establish exemptions and amend certain penalties for Medicare providers struggling to attest to meaningful use. The ...

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 ...

There will be no delay for ICD-10 conversion. But when CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner announced Thursday at HIMSS14 that CMS would be flexible on hardship exemptions for meaningful use ...

HOUSTON, TX--(Marketwire - Nov 8, 2012) - Seventeen additional rural and community hospitals have exceeded baseline requirements to complete stage one meaningful use attestation using Prognosis Health ...

Chilmark Research analyst Cora Sharma recently penned a thoughtful post on how mobiles might impact future meaningful use requirements -- and vice versa. Sharma sees future opportunities for mobile in ...

The potentially life-threatening problems caused in part by illegible handwriting and inconsistent patient information that’s been so common with paper files are diminishing as the use of electronic ...

Changes in practice operations deemed necessary to meet the 25 “meaningful use” criteria proposed as part of the federal electronic health record incentive program would lead to decreased provider ...