The looming deadline for the ICD-10 transition is causing many headaches, as physicians, who are already facing financial challenges, attempt to navigate their way toward a new code set, and avoid any disruptions or loss in reimbursements. The scope of this transition has overwhelmed and crippled many small- and medium-sized practices and has led many to Read more…
Meaningful Use
How to Succeed with Patient Portals for Meaningful Use Stage 2?
Utilizing a patient portal within a healthcare organization may have been an option for providers to meet Meaningful Use Stage 1 requirements. Now, for Meaningful Use Stage 2, it is a core objective that must be met. CMS requires eligible professionals to not only provide 50% of unique patients online access to their healthcare information, Read more…
What makes Meaningful Use challenging for small practices?
The Meaningful Use program has been the biggest force driving Electronic Health Record adoption over the last 5 years in the country. As of today, more than 80% of nationwide physicians are using certified EHR software to ‘meaningfully’ attest for pre set performance metrics and are earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in government incentives. Read more…
Meaningful Use Deadline: Q&A with Experts
As the deadline for “Meaningful Use” approaches, doctors are rushing to adopt the Program to take advantage of the government incentives. However, as we speak to doctors, we realize that many of them are confused about the Program, which makes it difficult for them to earn maximum incentives. The confusion surrounds the requirements, incentives, penalties, exemptions Read more…
How to avoid Meaningful Use penalty and avail hardship exceptions?
Highlights Avoid Meaningful Use penalty; start Meaningful Use program by July 1, 2014 Deadline to attest for 90-day reporting period ends on October 1, 2014 Any attestation that follows October 2014 will have a reporting period of 1 year rather than 90 days CMS allows for hardship exceptions until July 1, 2015 Only selected providers Read more…
Why you should start Meaningful Use today
The government has paid out more than $22 billion in Meaningful Use incentives and it is about time you joined the bandwagon in case you haven’t already. The last date to begin your reporting period for the Meaningful Use program is July 1, 2014. So get your act together and start putting your Electronic Health Read more…
Achieve Success in Meaningful Use Stage 2 and Beyond
If you are looking to succeed at Meaningful Use Stage 2, you need to think beyond it. This means that you need to seek processes and technology that help you exceed the current requirements. Aside from complying with the latest healthcare regulations and best practices, you can plug into the modern connected healthcare delivery network, Read more…
The Meaningful Use muse: All about conformity
Meeting the Meaningful Use requirements is certainly not for the feeble. They require constant compliance with core and menu objectives on part of the physicians in order to be able to attest for incentive payments. Up until now, many health IT vendors have been able to certify their products under Stage 1 of the Program. Read more…
How EHR replacement might impact Meaningful Use achievement
According to Black Book Rankings Survey 2013, nearly 30% of all new Electronic Health Records (EHRs) purchases are done to replace old EHRs. This number is expected to go up by year-end as the CMS requirements for achieving of Meaningful Use Stage 2 are changing in 2014. At this point in time, nearly 92% of Read more…
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