EHR Experts

By Chelsey Ledue

WASHINGTON – After signing the healthcare reform bill into law on March 23, President Barack Obama traveled to Iowa and Maine to promote his vision, which includes the role of healthcare IT in saving lives and cutting cost.
Obama visited Iowa City, Iowa on March 25 and Portland, Maine on April 1.
At the [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records on May 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment »

By, Diana Manos
WASHINGTON – The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services will grant Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin federal matching funds for EHR implementations.
The funding is allotted under The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The grants cosist of:

$900,000 for Alaska;
$2.6 million for Kentucky;
$1.48 million for South Carolina; and
$1.37 million for Wisconsin

According to CMS officials, [...]

Filed under: EHR, Electronic Health Records, Federal Economic Stimulus Package on February 1st, 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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

By Joseph Conn / HITS staff writer

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology is adopting a two-tier system of testing and certifying IT systems.

In a conference call with vendors and developers of health IT systems Thursday, CCHIT Chairman Mark Leavitt announced the not-for-profit organization’s new testing program, as the group readies itself for [...]

Filed under: EHR on September 21st, 2009 | No Comments »