Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs is now open

In my daily interactions with physicians and their staff members, I often have the opportunity to discuss the benefits of an electronic medical record system with in their practices. With all the information recently about the ARRA funds available, I have been approaching these conversations with the stimulus money as the carrot, much as the […]

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) are currently offering eligible providers a carrot in the form of a percentage bonus to move to e-prescribing. The idea is to increase the level of patient care by sending an accurate, error-free and understandable prescription directly to a pharmacy from the point of care thereby reducing medication […]

“Certified” simply means that the software has passed the certification threshold for at least 10 of the specified test standard instituted by the ONC Standard and Certification Criteria Final Rule. The test methods can be found at NIST (You can find them at: http://xw2k.nist.gov/healthcare/use_testing/finalized_requirements.html)    Certified does not mean that the software is a good […]