Authorized by CMS, this program allows physicians to bill $42.60 per 30-day period for 20 minutes of non-face-to-face chronic care management activity. Physicians who currently treat senior patients, ...

Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, a leading supplier of speech solutions, announced that eClinicalWorks, a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market, and McKesson ...

An undertaking of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services that reimburses eligible professionals and hospitals for adopting or upgrading to a certified electronic health record (EHR) system.

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 ...

An independent group of healthcare experts has called upon Congress to reconsider CMS’ “meaningful use” program to finance electronic health records (EHRs) for hospitals and physicians since it is not ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. A group of Republican House lawmakers introduced legislation on Friday that would block the Department of Veterans Affairs from rolling ...

The former CIO of the Department of Veterans Affairs offers some ideas for course correction in the agency's flagging $20 billion–plus Electronic Health Records Modernization program. Last week, FCW ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs has created a training program to educate medical providers who will be the first users of its forthcoming electronic health record modernization program. Called ...

The Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology has finalized the permanent electronic health record (EHR) certification program under which EHR technology will be tested and ...

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 ...

The 80 PCPs enrolled in the program, begun nearly two years ago, receive $5,000 toward the purchase of an EHR system. The program subsidizes a certain amount of money each month for two years for EHR ...

KPMD was ordered to pay $1.7 million in restitution for defrauding the government incentive program to implement EHRs. 1. KPMD signed a contract with the Georgetown, Ohio-based Southwestern Regional ...