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 ...

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 ...

If you worked in healthcare back in 2009, you surely have an opinion on the topic of meaningful use. You likely recall the blissful optimism the healthcare community had when the policy was first ...

One of the biggest moves in healthcare over the past several years has revolved around the concept of Meaningful Use. The goal of Meaningful Use is to improve the efficiency of the healthcare ...

e-Patient Dave (right) while on a panel at Health 2.0 As is well known by now, part of the federal stimulus package included $19 billion for electronic medical records (EMR) implementation -- and part ...

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 ...

Meaningful use is providing incentive for hospitals to step up and digitize health information. It’s an admirable step forward for the healthcare industry. But it’s not enough. Meaningful use does ...

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 ...

As the nation pursues meaningful use, it too will face a moment when it has to decide whether to introduce some form of mandate. Without that mandate, it is possible the nation will never truly meet ...

"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." ...

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 ...