CMS pays $730 million extra in meaningful use incentives
According to a report released by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services have actually overpaid more than $729 million worth of incentive payments to eligible providers that failed to meet meaningful use requirements. The officials said that this happened because the sample of eligible providers failed [...]
Epic’s $600 Million Contract With Veterans Affairs To Remain In Force
With the Veterans Affairs secretary David Shulkin announcing on Monday that his agency will be using the same technology as the Department of Defense (DoD), people were concerned about the fate of Epic Corp. who won a similar contract in 2015. The system opted by the DoD is MHS Genesis, […]
5 tips to steer clear of potential dangers posed by EHR Vendors
You must have read or heard about the eClinicalWorks issue with DOJ that happened recently. Well, the same thing may happen to you if you are not careful. eClinicalWorks is a sound company with many customers and likewise, services. If something like that can happen with such a vendor, imagine […]
Westborough's eClinicalWorks opts for $155M settlement over dispute
In order to resolve claims alleging the misrepresentation of the capabilities of its Health IT software, US-based eClinicalWorks has agreed to pay a $155 million settlement with the federal government. The U.S. Department of Justice said that eClinicalWorks — a company that ranks among the largest vendors […]
Proactive Alerts and how they help in improving patient care
In many hospitals, physicians sometimes have trouble keeping up with STAT orders as these orders are found somewhere within patient records in the EHR. Physicians often fail to access the EHR while being engaged with patients or travelling and this makes them to occasionally miss orders. This issue could be neutralized if notifications or automatic alerts are introduced in the [...]
Advantages and Disadvantages of Cloud-Based EMR Software
Physicians have been using Electronic Medical Records (EMR) Software for quite some time but one question most of them can't get over is, whether a Cloud-based EMR Software is worth the investment or not. Comparatively speaking, cloud-based software are relatively newer to the market, but they are economical and more reliable. Most practices still wonder that performance-wise, are they really [...]
Provenance Data and Why Is It Becoming Increasingly Important Today
Patient health data usually travels a long distance before it finally gets to its destination. The data transferred by EHRs can be converted, merged, and mapped. Also, this data is used in numerous different ways. For example, healthcare providers use patient medical data at the point of care, […]