How EHR vendor choice can impact Meaningful Use attestation
A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association uncovers the relationship between EHR vendor and Meaningful Use performance.
Ex-CFO sentenced for Meaningful Use fraud, but money may be gone
The former CFO of a Texas hospital implicated in a scheme to defraud the Meaningful Use health IT incentive program has been sentenced to 23 months in federal prison and ordered to pay nearly $4.5 million.
With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
The Forgotten Meaningful Use Incentive Adjustment
Ah, the life of a hospital CIO. Sometimes everything just falls into place. It doesn’t matter if you work for a 40 bed rural Critical Access Hospital (CAH) or a 700 bed critical care center in an urban center, the satisfaction can be the same. All the details of your CMS EHR incentive attestation were […]
Mock EHR Incentive Audits: Time to Get Serious
A Proactive Approach to Meaningful Use Audits Well, you could wait and play the odds and hope you are one of the hospitals that doesn’t get audited for those CMS EHR Incentive attestations that brought in seven figure incentives. This is what most Eligible Hospitals (EHs) and Critical Access Hospitals (s) are doing. You could […]
The Golden Parachute: Hospitals and Retroactive Meaningful Use Attestation
CMS Offers EHs Meaningful Use Attestation Assistance My grandfather, raised in the red hills of North Georgia, used to call it “getting caught with your pants up”. I saw the same thing in the first Hunger Games movie when those little surprise parachutes would float down with food and medicine. I like those little parachutes, […]
A Hard Rain: The Surge in Meaningful Use Audits for Eligible Hospitals
When it rains it pours. In West Africa it is called the monsoon. In Costa Rica it is the green season. Growing up in Georgia we just called it a gully washer. Whatever you call it, there seems to be a virtual storm of meaningful use (MU) eligible hospital (EH) audits popping up all over […]
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A Personalized Approach to Medication Nonadherence
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
First wave of MU Stage 2 draft test procedures released
if you’re building software in the health IT world, you should be jumping into MU Stage 2 requirements in earnest now and start your programming engines as soon as possible.
Meaningful Use Attestation and Audits: A Word to the Wise
The CMS EHR Incentive Program is going full bore. Over $390,000,000 was paid out in November alone by Medicare to Eligible Professionals (EP) and Eligible Hospitals (EH). That doesn’t even include the Medicaid incentives. Seems like every possible EHR is certified, EPs and EHs are registering, and we’ve even seen the Stage 1 early 2011 […]