Meaningful Use

Introduced Thursday to the Energy and Commerce Committee, the bill would reduce the volume of future EHR-related significant hardship requests.

The Office of the Inspector General said will review the accuracy of payments to Medicare hospitals between 2011 and 2016, as well as telemedicine payments.

But the EHR vendor says that clients own their data and can get it transferred back.

The bipartisan bill would eliminate HITECH Act requirements that HHS make attesting to meaningful use harder to achieve.

The embattled electronic health record vendor revealed second customer success since DOJ settlement over meaningful use fraud.

Misplaced records, medication module errors, flawed lab results tracking and security issues should have been taken more seriously, Brendan Delaney says. 

As if the hefty settlement fine execs had to pay wasn’t enough, the vendor also has to offer free upgrades, transfer customer’s data to rival EHR vendors for free, and employ an independent personal watchdog. 

The HHS secretary said interoperability is needed, but pledged his office will take a "60,000-foot" view.

Public health, clinical data or specialized registry electronic reporting options intended to help with meaningful use requirements.

While nobody wants to go back to the pre-electronic health record days, pre-meaningful use is a whole other question.