In recent weeks, the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT (ONC) has named three additional electronic health record (EHR) authorized testing and certification bodies, aka ONC-ATCBs. The new organizations are ICSA Labs, a security product testing and certification division of Verizon Business based in Mechanicsburg, Pa.; SLI Global Solutions Inc., a Denver-based risk management firm; and Arlington, Va.-based Surescripts LLC, a national e-prescribing network. Those organizations join
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2011 Key EHR Dates Deadlines
Here is a list of a few key EHR incentives deadlines for 2011
Jan. 3, 2011 — Registration for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.April 2011 — Attestation for the Medicare EHR incentive program begins.May 2011 — Issuing of Medicare EHR incentive payments expected to begin.July 3, 2011 — Last day for eligible hospitals to begin their 90-day reporting period to demonstrate meaningful use for the Medicare EHR incentive program for federal fiscal year 2011.Sept. 30, 2011 — Federal fiscal
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