In recognition to administrative burden on healthcare providers, CMS’ proposal includes additional hardship exemption categories for eligible professionals and group practices during 2011 for the 2012 eRx payment adjustment due to a significant hardship. Read the full report in Becker’s…
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CMS will be assessing claims from the first six months of this year as a baseline period to determine e-prescribing activity, and starting in 2012, approximately 209,000 healthcare providers are in danger of being penalized by a 1 percent reduction…
At a hearing of the House Small Business Committee’s healthcare and technology subcommittee, solo physicians and small physician practices detailed their financial struggles as they work to choose, implement and learn to use electronic health records, according to a Government…
Recent study findings showed small physician practices (either solo practitioners or two-physician practices) are less likely to adopt electronic health records, according to research published in the Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association.Read the full report in Becker’s Hospital…
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality will be surveying Medicaid providers to collect data on specific meaningful use challenges and using that information to create technical assistance and support for those providers, according to a Government Health IT news…
The workgroup that advises the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT on meaningful use issues has recommended the federal agency delay implementation of stage 2 meaningful use by one year in order to lift the burden for eligible…
The newly created American College of Clinical Information Managers will aim to establish a national accreditation pathway for medical scribes, according to an ACCIM news release. Read the full story in Becker’s Hospital Review on ACCIM.
The Health IT Policy Committee’s adoption and certification workgroup has written a letter to the Office of the National Coordinator, urging the federal agency to require a level of standardization among differing electronic health records, according to an InformationWeek news…
Here are five big questions for orthopedic surgery center administrators for maintaining profitability.
Robotic and computer-assisted technology is now available for use during orthopedic and spine procedures. There are many concerns associated with the efficacy and efficiency of this technology, especially since it costs hospitals a great deal of money to acquire. Here,…