FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 5, 2011
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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 »
Iowa’s Medicaid program is the first to receive matching federal funds to plan for the implementation of an EHRs incentive program as established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
According to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Iowa will receive $1.6 million in matching funds.
“While Iowa is the first state [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Electronic Health Records, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care on November 27th, 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 »
The bill, introduced by Sen. John Kerry, would make small healthcare practices eligible for federal loans.
By Mitch Wagner, InformationWeek
Senator John Kerry introduced a bill designed to help family doctors fund conversion to electronic health records.
Kerry, D-Mass., a senior member of the Finance Committee, introduced the Small Business Health Information Technology Financing Act of 2009 Tuesday. [...]
Filed under: EHR, Federal Economic Stimulus Package, Health Care on November 16th, 2009 | No Comments »
Some challenges still remain, but government says it will implement integrated health information systems next year.
By Audra Mahlong, Journalist
The start-up phase for its national electronic health record system will finally begin in 2010, says the Department of Health.
While progress has been slow on the implementation of the system, the department says it will be ready [...]
Filed under: EHR, EHR companies, Health Care on November 11th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Neil Versel
The new Medicare Part B fee schedule for 2010 is encouraging doctors to adopt EHRs by, for the first time, allowing practices to use real clinical data from EHRs and e-prescribing systems to report quality measures for the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI) and e-prescribing incentive programs. The change, according to CMS, [...]
Filed under: CCHIT, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on November 9th, 2009 | No Comments »
As medical practices nationwide focus on “meaningful use” of electronic health records (EHRs), the American Medical Group Association (AMGA) reports encouraging findings from a survey of AMGA member medical groups. Although few groups have yet to fully achieve all the benefits they anticipated when they began implementation, virtually all groups now have even higher expectations [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on November 5th, 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 »
According to this report: The National Alliance for Health Information Technology Report to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology on Defining Key Health Information Technology Terms, there is a distinction between EMR (electronic medical record) and EHR (electronic health record). I don’t think that most people will argue that PHR (personal [...]
Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Health Care on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
