EHR Experts

By Steven Shea, M.D., and George Hripcsak, M.D.
North Shore Hospital System on Long Island in New York recently announced that it will pay an incentive of up to $40,000 to each physician in its network who adopts its electronic health record (EHR) — paying 50% of the cost to physicians who install an EHR that [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, Electronic Health Records on January 25th, 2010 | No Comments »

The Certification Commission today announced the first group of products certified under its two new programs – CCHIT Certified® 2011 Comprehensive, and Preliminary ARRA 2011 – launched on October 7, 2009.  Both programs inspect electronic health record (EHR) technology for the first time against proposed Federal standards to support providers in qualifying  for 2011-2012 incentives [...]

Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR on December 11th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera
A panel advising the Office of the National Coordinator of Health IT (ONC) said it will heed the overwhelming consensus it has received in recent public comments to develop the simplest possible certification standards for accelerating health IT adoption.
The Health IT Standards Committee’s implementation workgroup reported today that it distilled the testimony of [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, EHR companies, HL7, Health Care on November 24th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera,
Healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs next year, according to an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The revisions are designed “to promote adoption and use of electronic health [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, EHR companies, Health Care on November 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Although the federal government has yet to release final certification criteria for the “meaningful use” of electronic health records, the Certification Commission for Health IT is continuing to serve as the industry’s primary EHR certifier, ZDNet Healthcare reports.
In 2004, the trade group Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society helped found CCHIT. For several years, the [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records on November 17th, 2009 | No Comments »

By Mary Mosquera
Healthcare providers will have the option to use electronic health record systems to report Medicare quality and electronic prescribing measures to CMS in some of its pay-for-performance programs next year, according to an announcement by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
The revisions are designed “to promote adoption and use of electronic health [...]

Filed under: ARRA, EHR, Health Care on November 4th, 2009 | No Comments »

Health care organizations that developed their own electronic health records systems likely will be able to get them certified as being compliant with the meaningful use requirements of the federal EHR incentive program next year.

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology next year plans to develop a “site certification” program for hospitals and [...]

Filed under: ARRA, CCHIT, EHR, Health Care on October 7th, 2009 | No Comments »