With all the initiatives affecting healthcare organizations this year, being able to balance priorities and resources is must. Meaningful use and ICD-10 are...
Tag - Stage 2 Meaningful Use
For Stage 2, current platforms just aren’t cutting it, so hospitals are making big changes. The electronic medical record market is poised for a...
Executive Summary What does Stage 2 Meaningful Use mean for providers? The simple answer is that it raises the bar: there are more core measures, new menu...
Stage 2 Meaningful Use places new and greater requirements on eligible hospitals and professionals. What makes this next phase of the EHR Incentive Programs a...
Stage 2 Meaningful Use requires providers to use clinical decision support, but most hospitals and practices aren’t even doing the bare minimum to obtain...
The American Medical Association is gearing up for an action-packed year, says AMA President Ardis Dee Hoven, MD in a blog post. Between the implementation of...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is inviting eligible professionals (EPs) who have completed two or more years of Stage 1 Meaningful...
By now the changes to the meaningful use timeline are understood to affect only the end of Stage 2 Meaningful Use and the beginning of Stage 3. As of yet...
By Matt Rossini, JACO, Inc As health systems and eligible healthcare professionals transition from Stage 1 to Stage 2 Meaningful Use to meet the 2014 reporting...
The next year in healthcare will usher in a number of changes, from Stage 2 Meaningful Use to ICD-10, and have many already considering whether their current...
The clock is already ticking for hospitals, especially those eligible and participating in the EHR Incentive Programs. Stage 2 Meaningful Use is already...
Similar to many healthcare organizations these days, Shafiq Rab, CIO and Vice President of Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ, uses an all...
Although meaningful use is still in its infancy with Stage 2 Meaningful Use just about to begin, valuable lessons are already emerging as eligible hospitals...
After spending thousands of dollars on an EHR system, computers, IT infrastructure, installation, and staff training, most providers hope that they never have...
Connecting patients directly to the EHR achieves better demographics capture — a cornerstone of Stage 2 Meaningful Use — and lays the foundation for engaging...