Late last month, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services began issuing Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers. For physicians who were able to attest ...

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Minority Health--working with Quest Diagnostics and its subsidiary MedPlus--rolled out a new initiative this week to help improve ...

EHRs have been adopted by nearly all hospitals and physician practices thanks to incentives baked into the 2009 Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act, or HITECH. However, ...

The United States is making substantial investments to accelerate the adoption and use of interoperable electronic health record (EHR) systems. Using data from the 2009–13 Electronic Health Records ...

Payment Statistics for CMS EHR Incentives for Eligible Professionals The proof is in the pudding. The case of CMS EHR incentive programs continue to produce remarkable statistics that demonstrate that ...

EHR adoption has lagged significantly for healthcare facilities that don’t qualify for subsidies through the HITECH Act’s Incentive Programs, such as rehabilitation hospitals, long-term care and ...

Healthcare providers are moving from simply implementing electronic health records (EHRs) to actively safeguarding the health of their data. This shift includes embedding continuous monitoring into ...

The ONC has released the latest data available of health IT adoption and use, broken down in a state-by-state format. Here are four findings on which states have achieved the highest levels of EHR ...

iPatientCare, Inc., a pioneer in mHealth and cloud-based ambulatory EHR and integrated Practice Management solutions announced the successful adoption of Revenue Cycle Management (RCM) Services by ...