Stage 2 of the federal Electronic Health Records Incentive Program is underway for providers who first reached Stage 1 in 2011. Although there will not be any official statistics available for several ...

Keeping its “eye on the prize, but feet on the ground,” the advisory panel to the HIT Policy Steering Committee recently took a step closer to pushing back stage 2 of meaningful use. Such a delay, the ...

Stage 2 Meaningful Use for Eligible Professionals and Eligible Hospitals looks a long way off. We are still out of breath from climbing the rock face to Stage 1 Meaningful Use and most EPs and EHs are ...

One of the final rules for Stage 2 of the HITECH Act electronic health record incentive program has moved a step closer to publication. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on July 16 sent ...

(HealthDay News) — Providers and hospitals are making slow progress toward achieving meaningful use stage 2, according to an article published July 10 in Medical Economics. According to Medical ...

The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives (CHIME) has recommended that the federal government push back the deadline for Stage 2 implementation of meaningful use until the impact of ...

The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) for Stage 2 meaningful use was posted to the Office of the Federal Register today. The proposed rule outlines the next stage of meaningful use for the ...

The HITECH Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allows eligible healthcare providers to receive incentive payments upon demonstrating “meaningful use” of electronic health ...