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Provide patients clinical summaries to help meet meaningful use
Provide patients clinical summaries to help meet meaningful use
One of the most difficult meaningful use measures that practices must meet is the one requiring them to give patients a clinical … more
Texas Family Physician - Vol. 64 No. 2, Spring 2013
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Damage control: Mending Texas’ women’s health care safety net The health care … more
Feb. 28 is Medicare EHR attestation deadline
Feb. 28 is Medicare EHR attestation deadline
posted 02.14.13
Physicians participating in the Medicare electronic health record incentive program have until Feb. 28 to complete their meaningful … more
Defining the meaning of “meaningful use”
By I.L. Balkcom IV, M.D.
TAFP PresidentShhhh! Don’t tell anyone, but I am attempting to practice on my laptop so I might understand how to have a “meaningful” encounter with my patient. I have made progress in technology in that I even sent our chief operating officer, Kathy McCarthy, an e-mail this year—a proud moment in my technological infancy. Now I find myself immersed in a small screen with small print and myriad options for the EHR. As Peanuts would say, “ARRRGHH!” as I erase an entire page by accident.
Now for those of you who are fortunate enough to know all things computer or young enough to have grown up with iPhones, laptops, and MP3 players, I heartily congratulate you. Some of us less technologically gifted are still learning how to turn on these infernal machines and not to treat them like coke machines—beat and kick the “heck” out of them. I wish so often they would say something so I could keep up my tirade. Oh, I forgot. They do talk to you now.
moreHealth information exchanges take off in Texas
Health information exchanges take off in Texas
posted 04.12.12
One component of meaningful use of health information technology, the process through which physicians can earn incentive bonuses … more
CMS announces next stage for providers adopting electronic health records
CMS announces next stage for providers adopting electronic health records
posted 03.06.12
The Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services announced the proposed rule for the second stage of the … more
Attest to meaningful use, file Medicare Part B claims before Feb. 29 deadlines
Attest to meaningful use, file Medicare Part B claims before Feb. 29 deadlines
posted 02.21.12
Physicians have until Feb. 29 to register and attest to meeting meaningful use requirements to … more
Buyer beware: Issues to consider when contracting with EHR vendors
Buyer beware: Issues to consider when contracting with EHR vendors
posted 07.07.11
Electronic health record contracts are typically written in a manner favorable to the vendor. A solid contract … more
HHSC defines “meaningful use” of electronic health records
HHSC defines “meaningful use” of electronic health records
posted 10.07.10
After a year of waiting, the U.S. Health and Human Services Commission clarified a stipulation that will … more