To improve health care quality and decrease costs, both the public and private sectors continue to make substantial investments in the transformation of primary care. Central to these efforts is the ...

Recently published information on meaningful use clinical quality measures and their associated value sets as well as the meaningful use core and menu objectives have been loaded to the United States ...

On Jan. 11, the first day of J.P. Morgan’s 34th Annual Healthcare Conference in San Francisco, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Acting Administrator Andy Slavitt said, “The Meaningful ...

"The different stages of growth, development and socialization of childhood require different meaningful use criteria that must be developed carefully for the diverse pediatric patient population." ...

Cathleen Biga states that with a good amount of work and significant cost meaningful use can be achieved. Cathleen Biga defines meaningful use as having an electronic system that is used in a ...

The definition of "Meaningful Use" in ARRA is one of the most critical decision points of the new administration's healthcare IT efforts. That definition will influence the types of products that will ...

Partners HealthCare’s clinical and information system leaders are still poring over and absorbing the details of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) program for Meaningful Use of ...

At last week's Institute for Health Technology Transformation (iHT2) summit in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., panelists Doris Crain, vice president and CIO of Broward Health; Jeanette Schreiber, medical ...

Ed Gaudet is the CEO and Founder of Censinet, a healthcare risk management platform, and member of the Health Sector Coordinating Council. With cyberattacks such as ransomware directly impacting ...

David Kibbe asks the question directly. Could meaningful use be the straw that breaks the back of small practices? (Picture from his blog.) It is significant that Kibbe is asking the question. He ...

A CMS proposal could extend the deadline for providers to transition to Stage 2 meaningful use of electronic health records (EHRs). Agency officials said they have received extensive feedback from ...

Federal officials have announced they will release the long-awaited final rule on meaningful use Tuesday morning. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National ...