Leveraging Technology
Seventeen companies that make an estimated 90% of the electronic health record products used by hospitals have pledged to help providers share health information for care whenever permitted by law, Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced yesterday.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to July 1 the deadline for eligible hospitals/professionals and critical access hospitals to apply for a hardship exception from the 2015 Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. The previous deadlines were March 15 for…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued three new Frequently Asked Questions clarifying what hospitals and eligible professionals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program must do to meet the public health reporting objective in 2016. Feb. 29 is…
The Health Resources and Services Administration is accepting applications through April 8 for fiscal year 2016 grants to support telehealth services for school-based health centers in rural, frontier and underserved communities. Hospitals may sponsor the health centers and be part of the…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has posted a Frequently Asked Question clarifying what hospitals participating in the Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program must do to meet the public health objective, particularly the specialized registry measure for eligible…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today extended to March 11 the deadline for hospitals and eligible professionals to attest to meaningful use of electronic health records for the 2015 Medicare Electronic Health Records Incentive Program. The original deadline was Feb. 29.
Adults hospitalized for acute cardiovascular disease, surgery or pneumonia are less likely to experience some adverse events in hospitals with certain electronic health record functions, according to a study published this week in The Journal of Patient Safety.
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to consider provider experience to date and evidence from electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) pilots and demonstrations as it develops future rulemaking for eCQM reporting.