The Department of Health and Human Services has issued a set of final regulations that seek to promote the adoption of electronic health records. HHS said Tuesday it collaborated with the Centers for Medicare
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The Department of Health and Human Services is leading efforts to release the latest rules on managing electronic health records under the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs and 2015 Edition Health IT Certification Criteria.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has finalized a rule that aims to give eligible clinicians and hospitals greater flexibility in demonstrating meaningful use of electronic health record systems. CMS said Friday it
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Director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT Farzad Mostashari, the health agency’s point man for electronic health records — a key technology and policy push of the Obama
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National coordinator for health IT Dr. David Blumenthal, who announced last month he would return to academia, said successful efforts over the past two years to get healthcare providers on board with
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Rather than imposing health IT fiats from on high, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT is instead beseeching early adopters to encourage slower-adopting colleagues, according to a report in
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Electronic health records and other forms of health IT have survived the wrangling over defining “meaningful use.” But, until recently, EHR was often more about talk than action. Not so anymore, said
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The director of the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT, Dr. David Blumenthal, has a simple message for healthcare providers pondering whether and how to adopt electronic health records: Just
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A slew of recent polls carry optimistic results for electronic health record adoption. Wait, scratch that. New survey results are disastrous for the health IT forecast. Every day, it seems, a new
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Health and Human Services Chief Technology Officer Todd Park said HHS will begin awarding grants to healthcare providers who adopt health IT practices, but only if they can prove they are actually
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