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Where EHR incentives come from
In 2009, the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) was passed as an element of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. (ARRA). HITECH was the enabling...
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The NYS stats
The NY State EHR Incentive program is bigger than you think. As of 4/30/13; they have paid $121,487,733.00 to 6,149 Eligible Practitioners, along with $240,479,477.82 to 194 Hospitals, for a total of...
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[A/I/U]
The technology goals of the EHR Incentive program are threefold. 1) Adopt. This means acquire, purchase, or secure access to certified EHR technology. 2) Implement. Instal or commence utilization of...
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Getting an EP ready to participate in the EHR Incentive
First, one must be an Eligible Provider (MD, DO,DDS, etc.). The EP must also be enrolled as a fee-for-service Medicaid provider, and have over 30% of the total patient volume be Medicare or “needy”....
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Certified Technology for the EHR Incentive
The Feds have made their choices for what tech is certified, as far as the standards, implementation specs and the certification criteria go. The Secretary of Health and Human Services has adopted the...
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So, how much does the EHR Incentive pay the EP?
The incentive for an EP depends on how long they are participants in the incentive program. In the first year, $21,250 is disbursed in a lump-sum payment through the state’s usual method of paying...
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Can an EP assign their incentive payment?
Perhaps an EP has some contractual arrangement with an employer or other entity that allows the entity to bill and receive payment for an EP’s covered professional services. This raises the question:...
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The Sunday Editorial:EHR will change where and how patient data gets stored
The Sunday Editorial: EHR is a niche in the general migration of data that is occurring now as computer systems in general become windows into stored data. It, of course, has its own inherent needs and...
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An EHR extension
While most EHR activity is centered around recording clinical information; patient encounters are more than just procedures. A company called patientstudio (patientstudio.com) has focused on how...
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ONC pulls its certification for two EHR products
The ONC has decided that it made a mistake. In April, they announced that they are revoking certification for two EHR products. The products for which ONC revoked certification are EHRMagic-Ambulatory...
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A comprehensive view of EHR from Britain
One may find a paper at http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1598/1/A22.pdf that covers a lot of the background on EHR, with attention to European concerns, I found their thoughts on maintaining record...
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ACA compliance
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) as promulgated by he Obama administration is looking more and more like a practice game changer for providers. Section 6401 of the ACA requires that all providers and...
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The Sunday Editorial: ACA Compliance Redux
I’ve been thinking about the whole ACA compliance deal that I have previously mentioned. This baby is a hum-dinger if you sit and let it work through. First question to me iis WHEN an entity must be in...
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Explaining ACA to Newbies
There’s always a need (given the seemingly endless supply of people that are new to something) for help stuff. This stuff should optimally be both simple and self-documenting so that it becomes is...
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Hello Doctor
There’s an iPad app entering beta that looks promising. It is designed for people in complex medical conditions, such as cancer and heart diseases, and is in the AppStore. The vast majority of patients...
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EHR and PRISM
The recent flood of information on just how internet traffic has been monitored by governmental bodies has raised some questions in the medical community, both philosophical and practical....
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EHR and BYOD
Bring Your Own Device is a way of thinking about information technology that aims to utilize whatever device a user is comfortable with and already using routinely. Based on some recent usage data,...
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EHR Developer Guidelines Announced
In June, the HIMSS EHR association released a code of conduct for its members. This new code of conduct does not come from the government and was not intended as a way of further regulating healthcare...
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EHR does not guarantee cost reductions
The Annals of Internal Medicine published a study on July 16 that refutes the implicit cost savings averred by many EHR vendors. Researchers analyzed data from the Massachusetts eHealth Collaborative,...
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Happy New Year
I have been quiet for awhile; but it has been for a reason. Not much of interest has been happening. Yes, EHR is still out there. Yes, it will one day be adopted. But when the adoption date got delayed...
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