Here’s what you actually need to know before choosing one. An EHR, or electronic health record, is a digital system that stores and manages patient information across a practice. That includes ...

Registration for the Medicare and Medicaid electronic health records incentive programs opens Jan. 3, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced. Eligible professionals, eligible ...

Burlington, Mass.-based Nuance Communications, a leading supplier of speech solutions, announced that eClinicalWorks, a privately held leader in the ambulatory clinical systems market, and McKesson ...

The Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) Office of Minority Health--working with Quest Diagnostics and its subsidiary MedPlus--rolled out a new initiative this week to help improve ...

CliniComp, a pioneer in high-performing, reliable, electronic health record (EHR) solutions, today announced it has been named for the third consecutive year in the 10 th annual MedTech Breakthrough ...

Jan. 3 marked the one-year anniversary of the start of registration for the Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, according to a CMS news release. Providers showed a tremendous amount of ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. That’s the predicament many providers find themselves in with the two current CMS eRx initiatives. The 2008 MIPPA (Medicare Improvements for Patients and ...

Several times a week I am asked the following question: “What is the absolutely last drop dead date an eligible professional can meet the CMS EHR Incentive Program requirements and not leave any money ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs said it plans to delay future rollouts of the new EHR system until it is confident that the software “is highly functioning at current sites and ready to deliver for ...

Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Administrator Seema Verma on Tuesday announced changes to overhaul the meaningful use EHR incentive program, including equipping patients with access to ...

The United States Government Accountability Office has released a report suggesting CMS’ e-prescribing and electronic health records incentive programs have inconsistent requirements, although both ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced on Friday that it is halting additional rollouts of its new Oracle Cerner electronic health record system as part of “a larger program reset” to address ...