What "Meaningful Use" Means to Rural

Which Payment Year Should Hospitals Attest to Meaningful Use? Most hospitals (particularly rural hospitals) do not have the luxury of picking and choosing the payment year during which to attest to meaningful use. But for those that do, there are several factors to consider, including the following: Reason for PPS hospitals to attest no later [...]

Meaningful Use in 2010: Summary of Key Events Introduction: What a year! 2010 began with the big bang of the release of the proposed HIT Incentive Rule. Now, after a year of intense dialogue, final rulings, certification activities, and continued plain-old EHR implementation work, we’re only a few months away from the first providers receiving [...]

Unanswered Meaningful Use Questions: What Qualifies for the CAH Incentive? (Specific cost eligibility scenarios are at end of post) As many large hospitals start collecting the data that will allow them to access the Medicare meaningful use incentives as early as June of next year, critical access hospitals have been hamstrung by CMS’s unwillingness to [...]

CCHIT Certifies First EHR Products “The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology (CCHIT®) announced today that it has tested and certified 33 Electronic Health Record (EHR) products under the Commission’s ONC-ATCB program, which certifies that the EHRs are capable of meeting the 2011/2012 criteria supporting Stage 1 meaningful use as approved by the Secretary of [...]