Last week, the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS) announced the long-awaited proposed guidelines for Stage 3 of Meaningful Use requirements for electronic health records. On the same day ...

The HITECH Act under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 allows eligible healthcare providers to receive incentive payments upon demonstrating “meaningful use” of electronic health ...

Web-based patient portals, in one form or another, have started to become commonplace in American doctor's offices and hospitals. Partly this is due to requirements in Meaningful Use Stage II that ...

Read other coverage about responses to meaningful use stage 2: – 39 Medical Societies Call EHR Incentive Program Imperfect Fit for Physicians – AMIA Releases Position Statement on Meaningful Use – ...