After the July 13 release of the final rules of meaningful use, providers all over the country are examining the 15 core regulations and 14 “a la carte” regulations to determine how and when they will ...

To help navigate meaningful use as well as standards and certification criteria final rules, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information developed grids that capture the meaningful ...

March 9, 2010 — When Congress promised physicians and hospitals last year billions of dollars in incentive payments if they adopted electronic health record (EHR) systems, it attached some proverbial ...

Physicians Medical Center and Physicians Specialty Hospital successfully met CMS Stage 1 Meaningful Use standards with the VisionSH system from SourceMedical Solutions. Both facilities announced the ...

The trade association for hospital IT executives is urging federal authorities to back off on setting the next stage of e-record "meaningful use" standards until more health-care providers have ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is relaxing its timetable for health-care providers to meet stricter standards for "meaningful use" of electronic health records, a move HHS says is ...

The following article is written by Sean Benson, cofounder and vice president of consulting with ProVation Medical, part of Wolters Kluwer Health. The march towards meaningful use (MU) has created a ...

WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Health IT Now Coalition encouraged the Department of Health and Human Services to revise its Meaningful Use standards to promote robust interoperability and adoption ...

Eight out of 10 hospital CIOs recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) said they're concerned they will not be able to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) -- ...

eWEEK content and product recommendations are editorially independent. We may make money when you click on links to our partners. Learn More. The EHR/HIE Interoperability Workgroup, a coalition of ...

While the HITECH Act presents great opportunity for healthcare providers, a lack of clarity on standards represents a lot of unknowns for the future. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the ...