After working through half the 2,000 comment letters it received on the Meaningful Use Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, the industry is looking for a lower bar and greater overall clarity, said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid’s Tony Trenkle during the federal HIT Policy Committee meeting today in Washington, D.C. Other recurring issues taken up […]
Don’t Miss Out on This Once in a Lifetime Opportunity!
The comment period is drawing to a close on two important rules impacting our industry. The CMS notice of proposed rulemaking on the “meaningful use” EHR incentive program, and the ONC’s interim final rule describing the certification criteria for EHRs that qualify for the meaningful use program were issued on January 13, 2010. Both rules […]
AHA Sees Negative Consequences in Meaningful Use
“The AHA is very concerned that the high bar for achieving ‘meaningful use’ and the limited transitions proposed in the NPRM will severely limit hospitals’ ability to access these much-needed resources,” the organization stated in its recently filed comment letter to CMS. “We fear that the ultimate impact of the program actually could be the […]
Premier to CMS: Don’t Ask the Impossible
“It will be impossible for a substantial number of eligible providers to qualify for EHR incentives in the first stage of implementation if they are required to comply with every one of the proposed rules’ criteria in the first stage of implementation to achieve meaningful use,” writes the Primer health alliance, a large healthcare purchasing […]