On Thursday, July 29, 2010, physicians, physician practice managers, and others interested in learning more about the regulations governing incentives under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act of 2009 (HITECH Act) are invited to a free education session (by Kathie McDonald-McClure) and networking event ...
From the Office of National Coordinator of Health Information Technology (ONC HIT):
"On June 18, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology issued its temporary certification program final rule, which establishes a way for organizations to become authorized by the National Coordinator to test and certify ...
On May 13, 2010, the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York rejected the privacy challenge to the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH Act) asserted by Beatrice M. Heghmann, a registered nurse, and Robert A. Heghmann, her husband and attorney, against Kathleen Sebelius ...
Update 9/24/2020: In the 10 years since we wrote this article, the DEA received questions and requests for clarification on various issues concerning the implementation and technical requirements for e-prescribing controlled substances. To provide further clarification, this year, the DEA reopened the EPCS Interim Final Rule for ...
On March 24, 2010, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) posted a 30-day notice to solicit comments under the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 regarding its estimate of the burden to conduct a survey about public attitudes towards an electronic health information exchange and the associated privacy and security aspects. The Office ...
On March 2, 2010, the Office of National Coordinator (ONC) issued its proposed rulemaking respecting the certification standards that an eligible health care provider's electronic health record must satisfy in order to qualify for incentives under the Health Information Technology for Clinical and Economic Health Act (HITECH Act), which ...
For more up-to-date information about ARRA grants related to EHRs, see the page titled "Grants" which can be found at the top of this blog's home page.
A complete listing of the Health Information Exchange (HIEs), Regional Extention Centers (RECs) and job training recipients of HIT grants under the Health Information Technology for Economic ...
IMPORTANT NOTICE: This article was originally written in June 2009, before HHS released the Proposed Rule on "meaningful use" on December 30, 2009 and before President Obama signed the Continuing Extension Act of 2010. Under the Proposed Rule, the determining factor of whether a physician is "hospital-based" under the Medicare incentive ...
Editor's Note: Due to the continued popularity of this post, this article was reviewed and updated on September 30, 2013. For the later version, click here.
Update: On August 8, 2010, Medicare issued MLN Matters Article SE1022 on Medical Record Retention and Media Formats for Medical Records, which states that the Centers for Medicare ...
On Thursday, January 21, 2010, CMS announced that Alaska, Kentucky, South Carolina and Wisconsin, would receive federal matching funds for EHR implementation under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA). Kentucky's grant is $2.6 million. CMS indicated that the grant will be used to study EHR implementation ...