55% of Doctors, 80% of Hospitals Have Received EHR Incentives

HHS has exceeded its goal of 50% of eligible physician offices and 80% of eligible hospitals using electronic health records by the end of 2013. HHS data released today show that as of the end of April, 55% of eligible physicians and about 80% of eligible hospitals have received meaningful use incentive payments. Wall Street Journal, HHS release.

Pentagon Mulls Use of Commercial EHR System Instead of VA's VistA

In a memo on Tuesday, Department of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel wrote that his agency will consider a commercial electronic health record system as part of its efforts to establish an integrated EHR system with the Department of Veterans Affairs. NextGov.

More Groups Respond to GOP Concerns About Meaningful Use Program

The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society and the Texas Medical Association have sent separate letters commenting on a white paper and a letter by six Republican senators who say that the meaningful use program should be revamped. Modern Healthcare.

Health Care Industry Falls Behind Schedule in Preparing for Transition to ICD-10

George Arges of the American Hospital Association, Jim Daley of the Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange, Kathy DeVault of the American Health Information Management Association and Jeanne Gilreath of the Healthcare Billing & Management Association spoke to iHealthBeat about the health care industry's lack of progress in transitioning to ICD-10 code sets.

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As of March, How Many Health Providers Had Received Meaningful Use Incentive Payments?

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As of March, 160,890 eligible professionals had received Medicare meaningful use incentive payments, 83,765 eligible professionals had received Medicaid meaningful use incentive payments and 3,858 eligible hospitals had received meaningful use incentive payments from Medicare, Medicaid or both programs, according to recent data from CMS.

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