The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services wants industry help in digitizing clinical quality measures so healthcare providers can send them to CMS directly from their electronic health record systems.
CMS needs to develop technical descriptions for the quality measures in order to guide vendors in how to incorporate the reporting function in their electronic health [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on January 31st, 2011 | No Comments »
Slightly more than half of office-based physicians in the U.S. report using electronic health records in their practices, a slight increase over last year, according to preliminary results of a survey by CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics, United Press International reports.
Under the 2009 economic stimulus package, health care providers who demonstrate meaningful use of [...]
Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on January 20th, 2011 | No Comments »
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2011
Media Contact:
Ted Dave
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January 5, 2011 – Integrated Systems Management Inc announced today that OmniMD™ EHR, Version 11.0 is 2011/2012 compliant and was certified as a Complete EHR on January 4, 2011 by the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®), an ONC-ATCB, in accordance with the applicable (eligible provider) certification [...]
Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on January 6th, 2011 | No Comments »
Integrated healthcare delivery organizations say electronic health records (EHRs) support their patient care strategies by increasing the availability of individual patient and patient population data and by improving communication among providers.
These findings are from a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report, Health Care Delivery: Features of Integrated Systems Support Patient Care Strategies and Access to [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on January 4th, 2011 | No Comments »
