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 ...

Since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 first outlined the incentives providers would be able to receive for “meaningful use” of certified electronic health record technology, ...

Physicians Medical Center and Physicians Specialty Hospital successfully met CMS Stage 1 Meaningful Use standards with the VisionSH system from SourceMedical Solutions. Both facilities announced the ...

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 ...

Small hospitals with fewer than 150 beds are increasingly turning to clinical information systems (CIS) from vendors that have primarily served larger medical facilities, a shift that has a lot to do ...

Editor’s note: This article by Tony Mira, president and CEO of Anesthesia Business Consultants, an anesthesia & pain management billing and practice management services company, originally appeared in ...

Officials with the Office of the National Coordinator have issued an "all hands on deck" call to accelerate meaningful use certification for more than 1,000 small rural hospitals by the end of 2014.

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 ...

Eight out of 10 hospital CIOs recently surveyed by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (PwC) said they're concerned they will not be able to demonstrate "meaningful use" of electronic health records (EHRs) -- ...