The ONC (Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information technology) has appointed Genevieve Morris as the principal deputy national coordinator at the organization of ONC. The role might be new but Genevieve Morris already has a major working relationship with the agency.
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According to the announcement of Department of Justice (DOJ), Memphis's Poplar Healthcare and Poplar Healthcare Management have settled with the U.S. and will pay $897,640 to resolve blames that Poplar and their subsidiary GI Pathology promoted and billed government payers for medically unimportant diagnostic tests.
A centralized repository of public health agencies and clinical data registry has been developed recently by the CMS (Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services) reporting to give a one-stop source of information for eligible professionals (EPs) and hospitals engaging in the EHR Incentive Programs.
IBI Makes Meaningful Use (MU) Stage 3 Attestation Convenient with New Pub Hub Provider Portal4/18/2017 Pub Hub Provider Portal has been launched by IBI (Iron Bridge) for bidirectional public health and Meaningful Use Stage 3 requirements. Pub Hub is the first public health clearinghouse of the industry. Bidirectional capabilities have been added by Pub Hub Provider Portal that enable healthcare providers, hospitals, and Electronic Health Record (EHR) vendors to conveniently query public health registries, as well as submit public health information to state registries.
Proposed guidelines have been set out by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for collecting and submitting quality data through electronic health records (EHRs) systems for the years of 2017 and 2018, indicating certain flexibility in meeting industry demands regarding collection periods.
VigiLanz Achieves Meaningful Use Stage 3 Certification for Antimicrobial Use, Resistance Reporting3/13/2017 A digital healthcare intelligence firm, VigiLanz, declared today that its antimicrobial stewardship platform has achieved Meaningful Use Stage 3 (MU3) certification enabling its capability to accumulate and rightly report data around antimicrobial use and resistance. VigiLanz is believed to be one of the 1st to earn Stage 3 certification for use by facilities enrolled in the NHSN (National Healthcare Safety Network) that are needed to start reporting Antimicrobial Use and Antimicrobial Resistance (AUR) data in the year of 2018
MTBC which is a renowned provider of cloud-based electronic health record, proprietary, practice management and mHealth solutions has today declared that its voice-enabled electronic health record platform, talkEHR™, has acquired the 2015 Edition ONC Health IT certification as a Health IT Module.
Of the 4 Meaningful Use (MU) public health measures available for eligible hospitals to report, active reporting of electronic immunization registry and reportable laboratory outcomes were the 2 most common.
4,043 eligible and critical access hospitals (EH) attested for the Medicare EHR Incentive Program in the year 2015, in accordance to ONC. The deadline for eligible hospitals in the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting (IQR) and Meaningful Use (MU) programs has been extended by Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to submit their electronic clinical quality measure (eCQM) data from the year of 2016.
For over 171,000 Medicare eligible professionals, it won’t be a happy new year for about, who will be experiencing a 3% payment reduction in the year of 2017 under the Medicare Electronic Health Record Incentive Program for failing to indicate meaningful use in the year of 2015. That is the official figure given by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
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