Monday, August 17, 2009

EMR, Meaningful Use & Timeframes

To qualify for stimulus incentives for Adoption of Electronic Medical Records (EMR), CCHIT has been designated as the sole health IT certifier, for the foreseeable future (August 17, 2009).

One of the issues that federal officials must tackle as they write a rule defining meaningful use of electronic health records is to figure out how to know that a provider organization has achieved meaningful use (HDM Daily).

"Meaningful Use" EMR by definition should be finalized in December, per National Health IT coordinator Dr. David Blumenthal.

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