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EHR Incentive Programs Top $19.2 Billion In Payments

Jennifer Bresnick | EHR Intelligence | February 5, 2014

Eligible providers and hospitals are still raking in the dough to compensate for EHR adoption, said the HIT Policy Committee during its latest meeting this week.  More than $19.2 billion in incentive payments have been doled out to nearly 88% of hospitals and 60% of Medicare providers nationwide.  Over 340,000 providers have received an incentive as of the end of December 2013. Read More »

EHR Incentives Over $10B To Date

Mary Mosquera | Healthcare IT News | January 9, 2013

Medicare and Medicaid electronic health record payments are estimated to have blasted through $10.3 billion to a total of 180,200 physicians and hospitals through December since the program’s inception... Read More »

EHR Meaningful Use Dropout Rate Among Family Docs Hit 21% In 2012

Matthew Smith | Health Directions | July 8, 2013

As US physicians continue to embrace electronic health records (EHRs), data on CMS' EHR incentive program holds both positive and troubling news regarding family physicians' participation and success in achieving meaningful use of their EHRs. Read More »

EHR Meaningful Use Dropout Rate Soars In 2012

Sheri Porter | American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) | July 3, 2013

As U.S. physicians continue to embrace electronic health records (EHRs), data on CMS' EHR incentive program holds both positive and troubling news regarding family physicians' participation and success in achieving meaningful use of their EHRs. [...] Read More »

EHR Rollout Gone Wrong In Rural Kansas

Genevieve Beaudoin | Healthcare IT News | September 14, 2012

Dispute between Cerner and Girard Medical Center goes to arbitration. One year after Cerner abandoned its EHR implementation project at Girard Medical Center, the two don't appear to be any closer to a settlement of their legal struggle. Read More »

EHR Systems: A Money-Loser For Most Physicians?

John Commins | HealthLeaders Media | March 5, 2013

Adopting electronic health records appears to be a money-losing proposition for most physicians, especially specialists and those in smaller physician groups. Read More »

EMRs Were Designed For Billing And Not Optimized For Patient Care

Margalit Gur-Arie | HIT Consultant | June 3, 2013

EMRs were designed for billing, so let’s unleash that power, instead of trying to convert them into something they cannot be at this point in time. Read More »

Epic Challenge: What The Emergence Of An EMR Giant Means For The Future Of Healthcare Innovation

David Shaywitz | Forbes | June 9, 2012

Medicine has been notoriously slow to embrace the electronic medical record (EMR), but, spurred by tax incentives and the prospect of cost and outcomes accountability, the use of electronic medical records (EMRs) is finally catching on. Read More »

Executive Roundtable: What Frustrates Hospital CEOs, CIOs About Health IT?

Heather Punke | Becker's Hospital Review | January 10, 2014

Two hospital and health system CEOs and three CIOs share what frustrates them about health IT and what they are most excited about for the future of health IT. Read More »

Faculty Release Online Academic Material

Nicole Smith | The Lamron | October 31, 2013

The week of Oct. 23, two Geneseo professors released their published works through the Open SUNY Textbook Program, which allows students free access to online versions of these publications. Read More »

Fate Of Health IT Is Not Tied To One Political Party

Dan Bowman | FierceHealthIT | November 12, 2012

Count me among those who don't believe that the health IT world would have come crashing to a halt had Mitt Romney won last week's presidential election. Although the former Massachusetts governor did promise to dismantle healthcare reform had he been elected, he made no such statements about the HITECH Act that mandates hospitals to use electronic health records in a meaningful way. Read More »

FDA Wants To Leverage Electronic Medical Records To Probe For Adverse Events

Alexander Gaffney | Regulatory Focus (RF) | January 6, 2014

Keeping track of adverse events is a tricky task, even for regulators. Even when a drug has undergone a rigorous premarket assessment process, some risks may not become evident until a product is used by millions. And for other drugs, a particularly rare but serious side effect may take months, if not years, to be identified. Read More »

Fewer Certified EHRs For Stage 2 May Pose Problems For Hospitals, Doc Practices

Joseph Conn | ModernHealthcare.com | September 25, 2013

There is growing concern that far fewer software developers have certified electronic health-record systems for use by healthcare providers under federal Stage 2 meaningful-use requirements than under Stage 1. Read More »

Fitch: Meaningful Use Payments Masking 'Anemic' Revenue Growth

Marla Durben Hirsch | FierceEMR | August 7, 2012

Although Meaningful Use payments will dry up when the incentive program ends, the benefits of electronic health records systems--including quality and efficiency gains--will mitigate the loss, according to global ratings agency Fitch. But the fact that the funds are non-recurring makes makes it tricky to predict the financial impact of EHRs. Read More »

For Stage 2 MU, Don't Assume Vendors Have You Covered

Diana Manos | Government Health IT | March 4, 2013

A packed house at the Meaningful Use Symposium held March 3 at the 2013 HIMSS Annual Conference & Exhibition couldn't help but inspire awe and possibly conjure a little concern in the hearts of those attending. Read More »