Author: Levine, David L

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background

The Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) authorized incentive payments in 2009 through Medicare and Medicaid to clinicians and hospitals when they use Electronic Health Records privately and securely to achieve specified improvements in ca....

Author: Knighton, Michelle; Ray, Alisa

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Introduction

As hospitals anticipate the benefits of federal incentive payments for meaningful use of certified EHR technology, some face an unexpected hurdle. Many hospitals will be able to meet the EHR certification requirement through use of certified EHR technology purchased from vend....

Author: Palkie, Brooke; Sandefer, Ryan; Low, Trina

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

INTRODUCTION

The College of St. Scholastica’s (CSS) Center for Healthcare Innovation, School of Nursing and the School of Health Science’s Department of Health Informatics and Information Management are collaborating with five rural Minnesota hospitals and their shared informa....

Author: AHIMA

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2011

Eligible professionals and hospitals participating in the federal meaningful use incentive program must use EHR products that have been certified for use in the program. A key piece to launching the meaningful use program has been designing and creating the certification process.

A f....

Author: Wiedemann, Lou Ann

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

In today’s complex healthcare environment the challenge for many providers is the rapid deployment and implementation of electronic health records (EHR). The ongoing national initiative to provide Americans with an EHR, and federal programs designed to assist providers in EHR adoption ha....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: October 2011

After debate, speculation, and anxiety throughout the industry, the first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use program. So far… so good.

The first physicians and hospitals have embarked on stage 1 of the meaningful use journey; it has been nin....

Author: Sheldon-Dean, Jim

Source: AHIMA Convention

Publication Date: October 02, 2011

Background


In order to receive funding for the adoption of an Electronic Health Record (EHR) under the HITECH Act1, entities, among other requirements, must attest that they meet all required objectives published by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the repo....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2011

Perhaps one of the biggest jobs related to implementing the ARRA provisions right now is keeping track of the moving parts. Publication of the act in 2009 was a kind of Big Bang-an explosion of provisions that rocked the healthcare universe. Since then, however, the pieces have traveled at dif....

Author: Dimick, Chris

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: November 2011

A year after opening their doors, the federally sponsored health IT regional extension centers have nearly met their recruitment goals. Now the hard part starts…

The Regional Extension Centers (RECs) faced a near impossible mission.

Develop from scratch 62 RECs nation....

Author: Heubusch, Kevin

Source: Journal of AHIMA

Publication Date: January 2012

Last summer the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT heard repeatedly from providers and vendors that they would not have time to prepare for stage 2 of the meaningful use program. With a final rule on stage 2 not expected until summer 2012, vendors and hospitals did not see how th....