On September 1, 2009, CMS issued a letter to State Medicaid Directors to provide initial guidance on state administration of the incentive payments for eligible Medicaid providers who adopt and become meaningful users of electronic health records. These incentives were authorized by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA ...
I attended HIMSS Summit of the Southeast in Nashville on September 9, 2009. As is probably no surprise, this was a well-attended conference with some good speakers and engaging panel discussions. Among the excellent speakers was David Goetz, Commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, who gave a "state of the state ...
On August 17, 2009, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued its final rule requiring vendors of "personal health records" to notify consumers when the security of their electronic health information is breached. On August 19, 2009, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued its interim final rule requiring health care ...
On August 14, 2009, Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear signed an Executive Order creating Kentucky's Office of Electronic Health Information. This new Office will be the conduit for development of health information exchanges and the stimulus grants available to states under the HITECH Act. The Secretary of Kentucky's Cabinet for Health ...
On Thursday, July 16, 2009, the HIT Policy Committee presented its revised recommendation on the "meaningful use" definition. At the end of this meeting, the HIT Policy Committee forwarded its recommendation on the "meaningful use" definition to the Office of National Coordinator per the Health Information Technology for Economic and ...
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 placed a mandate on the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to recommend national priorities for research questions to be addressed by comparative effectiveness research (CER) and supported by the ARRA stimulus funds. Pursuant to this mandate, on June 30, 2009, the IOM released a report ...
Many small physician practices may be relying on health information technology (HIT) loans from their state to adopt electronic health records (EHRs) in their practices. Before a physician can seek such a loan, the state must have such loans available. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) provides grants to states to ...
On June 16, 2009, on the same date the ONC HIT Policy Committee released the first draft of "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs), the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) launched the CMS Health Information Technology Website to address health information technology (Health IT or HIT) under the ARRA's Health ...