In a letter addressed to Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, 17 senators lead by Sen. John Thune (R-SD) pushing for a one year extension to the Stage 2 meaningful use timeline for providers.
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75% of Hospitals Feel They Will Qualify for Meaningful Use Stage 2
75 percent of hospitals anticipated that their organization would qualify for Meaningful Use stage 2 incentives in 2014, according to recent HIMSS Analytics report.
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The Meaningful Use Train Is Simply Moving Too Fast
The meaningful use train is simply moving too fast, and the future success of the program depends on an application of the brakes.
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Is Meaningful Use Stifling Innovation in Health IT?
This commentary was initially posted on Healthcare Standards and is reposted here with permission of the author.
I write this post after reading Margalit Gur-Arie's excellent post on Alternative Health IT.
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Barriers to Achieving Meaningful Use: Clinical Summaries
Clinical summaries is one of the biggest barriers to achieving meaningful use for providers. In CareCloud's "Barriers to Meaningful Use" series
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Meaningful Use Stage 2 Beta – A Suggestion
It’s that time of year again when Meaningful Use conversations heat up because all sorts of deadlines are approaching, and as expected, nobody is ready.
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Is Meaningful Use Stage 3 The Perfect Opportunity to Tackle Health Disparities?
On August 26th, the Consumer Partnership for eHealth, a coalition of more than 50 consumer, patient and labor organizations published an evidence-based action plan for leveraging meaningful use stage 3 to reduce health disparities.
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MGMA Express Concerns Over “All or Nothing” Approach to Meaningful Use
MGMA express concerns that the current “all or nothing” approach to achieving meaningful use may prove to be problematic for providers to meet Stage 2 requirements.
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AAFP Urges CMS to Delay Meaningful Use Stage 2 Compliance by 12 Months
The American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), which represents more than 110,600 family physicians and medical students nationwide and its Center for Health Information Technology
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Farzad Mostashari To Step Down As ONC Chief This Fall
Dr. Farzad Mostashari announced on Tuesday that he will be stepping down from the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology post after four years this fall.
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