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Doctors are seeking a stepping stone to electronic health records.

Posted on 02/03/2011 - 2:07pm by Monique

A recent article in MedCity News tapped into some interesting trends. Some medical professionals have been hesitant about making the conversion to electronic health records.



Orlando Sentinel Discusses NCG As Preferred Vendor for Ponce School of Medicine in Puerto Rico

Posted on 12/20/2010 - 5:06pm by antonio

Linda Shrieves from the Orlando Sentinel discusses how NCG Medical has been named one of the preferred vendors by the Ponce School of Medicine Regional Extension Center in Puerto Rico.

Many Patients are already sharing their medical information: EHR will make it even easier

Posted on 12/17/2010 - 4:06pm by antonio

There was an interesting article recently on CNN Money about people sharing information on their medical conditions. Tweet your chart: Why social sharing of medical data is a good idea - Fortune Tech*

EHR Systems Save You Time & Money

Posted on 12/07/2010 - 12:36pm by Monique

On February 17, 2009, President Obama signed the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act. He has promised to computerize all of America's medical records within the next five years.

Medical Scribes in High Demand

Posted on 10/11/2010 - 9:28am by Steven

Medical scribes in high demand
Dr. Tony Andrulonis, left, Baptist Hospital's chief of emergency medicine, listens to a patient's heart while medical scribe and FIU student David Farias records data.

EHR subsidies could begin in May: CMS

Posted on 07/28/2010 - 1:08pm by Steven

The money could begin flowing from Medicare to providers for the purchase of electronic health-record systems as early as May 2011, a CMS official said today.

Official ONC and CMS Conference Call on EHR Stimulus Programs - EMR and HIPAA

Posted on 07/20/2010 - 9:20am by antonio

The “Official” ONC/CMS Audio conference call on the EHR stimulus programs.

ONC Certification and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs:
Final Rules
How will they impact you?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) together with The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) invite you to join us for an Audio Training on the Final Rules for ONC Certification and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs.

 

 

Meaningful Use Objectives Grid

Posted on 07/15/2010 - 7:55am by antonio

Listed below is the objectives published by the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) governing "meaningful use" of electronic health records. HHS had lowerd the criteria from 25 objectives that providers had to meet, to 14 mandatory and 5 menu objectives.

Final "Meaningful Use" Rules Announced

Posted on 07/13/2010 - 12:25pm by antonio

In a press conference today, ONC announced the release of the long awaited final version of the “Meaningful Use” rule.  The Office of National Coordination for Health Information Technology received over 2000 comments from across the country during the rule making process.  Those comments resulted in a dramatically scaled back set of regulations, while still maintaining the goal of achieving improvement in health care outcome.

CMS Establishes Website for Incentive Program

Posted on 06/23/2010 - 4:26pm by antonio

The site summarizes a lot of the information we have been gathering during the last six months. But the most important new information that we found is that providers have to register in the PECOS system.  Our guess is that the majority of doctor's out there are not registered.