On Jan. 11, the first day of J.P. Morgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said, “The Meaningful ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...

As hospitals and physician practices begin to reap financial rewards for demonstrating meaningful use of healthcare IT, other healthcare providers who are excluded from participating in the federal ...

The American Medical Association has asked the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid to pause its meaningful use program, due to the risk it places on a health system's ability to carry out new models of ...

The EHR Incentive Program, often dubbed “Meaningful Use”, has been surrounded by questions and confusion among anesthesiologists and practice administrators since its inception. Currently, the ...

What I found most striking about the Office of Inspector General's report last week lambasting the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for inadequate auditing and oversight of the Meaningful Use ...

The move from meaningful use to the value-based payment world of MACRA, MIPS, and the APMs is coming into focus. Meaningful use as we knew it changed on April 14, 2015. And what it's becoming is still ...

Physicians Medical Center and Physicians Specialty Hospital successfully met CMS Stage 1 Meaningful Use standards with the VisionSH system from SourceMedical Solutions. Both facilities announced the ...

The new Stage 3 meaningful use rules proposed by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services seek to give providers more flexibility, simplify the program, drive interoperability among electronic ...

Officials with the Office of the National Coordinator have issued an "all hands on deck" call to accelerate meaningful use certification for more than 1,000 small rural hospitals by the end of 2014.

Many clinicians and hospitals have asked me about the exact steps to obtain stimulus payments. On January 3, 2011, CMS began registering clinicians for participation in meaningful use programs. Every ...