meaningful use Tag

Tick tock, tick tock: there is less than a year left for hospitals and eligible healthcare professionals to demonstrate meaningful use of certified electronic health record technology. Those who fail to comply, or who cannot prove hardship, will pay a price - literally. The Health Information...

A few weeks ago, we wrote about the shockingly low number of healthcare organizations that have demonstrated meaningful use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs). But according to a recent article on Bloomberg.com, some of the organizations that have begun to digitize patient health records are...

If so, you'll be ahead of nearly all healthcare organizations in the United States. According to a report published by the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, most physicians are lagging behind in digitizing patient health records. The survey of 1,820 primary-care and specialty physicians found that...