Does EHR certification by the government mean anything? It does if you want to qualify for a number of incentive programs. Any reputable EHR vendor knows that such incentives can have a huge impact on ...

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) created major incentive programs for clinicians and hospitals that adopt electronic health records and achieve certain Meaningful Use (MU) ...

Surprisingly, the answer is no. The Medicaid program is a bit quirky in that in the initial year an eligible provider doesn’t have to actually be using an EHR, meaningfully or otherwise. On the ...

Allscripts’ Professional EHR on April 5 achieved full certification under ONC’s 2015 edition health IT product criteria. The Allscripts EHR was certified by Drummond Group, one of several software ...

The Health and Human Services Department announced on Monday that it selected the first two organizations that will review whether electronic health record system meet the standards and certification ...

Several times a week I am asked the following question: “What is the absolutely last drop dead date an eligible professional can meet the CMS EHR Incentive Program requirements and not leave any money ...

On Jan. 21, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT released a request for information on its standards, specification and certification criteria. ONC said with the Patient Engagement, ...

On July 13, NextGen Healthcare Inc. (NextGen), an electronic health record (EHR) software vendor, reached an agreement with the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Office of Inspector General of the ...