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Meaningful Use and EHR Certification
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: September 02, 2010
Summer Reading: Skimming the New ARRA-HITECH Regulations
Author: Rode, Dan
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2010
In July the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ended the waiting game for the HITECH privacy and security regulations, the meaningful use final rule, and the final rule on standards and certification.
HIM professionals and their organizations, anxious to familiarize thems....
Quality Check: An Overview of Quality Measures and Their Uses
Author: Dimick, Chris
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: September 2010
Meaningful use and pay-for-performance are shining a spotlight on quality measures. There are hundreds of measures in use, but most fall within three broad categories.
Just performing a healthcare service may not be enough to receive payment anymore. Increasingly, payers are ty....
Meaningful Use: Incentive Payments and Program Requirements
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: August 26, 2010
Meaningful Use: Provider Requirements
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: August 26, 2010
Overview of the Meaningful Use Final Rule
Author: AHIMA
Source: AHIMA report
Publication Date: August 25, 2010
Certified Meaningful
Author: Costa, Kerry F
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
This month providers will begin seeing the first EHR products approved for use in the "meaningful use" incentive program. Another piece of the ARRA puzzle is falling into place.
In March 2010 the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC) proposed two programs to test and approve EHR p....
Meaningful Use—Final at Last: Final Rule Adds Flexibility to Objectives, Eases Measures
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
The final rule on the EHR incentive plan offers more "flexibility and choice" than the daunting proposed rule, adjusting the objectives and scaling back some of the measures. Now interested providers just need to figure out how to get with the program.
After perhaps the longest six m....
United RECs of America
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
Most of the 60 regional extension centers have officially launched operations and begun helping providers implement health IT.
The RECs were created under the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which provided $642 million in grants for the centers' first two....
ARRA Timeline
Author: AHIMA
Source: Journal of AHIMA
Publication Date: August 2010
ARRA arrived with a bang in February 2009, but the regulations enabling the law's healthcare provisions have inched forward since then. Much of the responsibility for drafting regulation fell to the Department of Health and Human Services, which had a tall order to fill within deadlines mandate....
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