Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Meaningful Use Resources from ONC & CMS

 by Julie Franklin CMS and Peter Garrett ONC
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC) and the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) want to help you on your journey to becoming a meaningful user of certified electronic health record (EHR) technology.  Here are resources about meaningful use, Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs, and the EHR certification process to help guide you:
Meaningful Use and Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs 
3) PowerPoint Presentation: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs Final Rule
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHR_Incentive_Program_Agency_Training_v8-20.pdf
4) Timeline: Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/Downloads/EHRIncentProgtimeline508.pdf
5) Being a Meaningful User of Electronic Health Records
http://healthit.hhs.gov/meaningfuluse/provider   
7) Flow Chart – Determine Eligibility for Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs
https://www.cms.gov/EHRIncentivePrograms/downloads/eligibility_flow_chart.pdf
Certification 
1) Certification Programs Overview
http://healthit.hhs.gov/certification 
2) Standards and Certification Criteria Final Rule Fact Sheet
http://healthit.hhs.gov/standardsandcertification/factsheet 
3) HITECH Temporary Certification Program for EHR Technology Fact Sheet
http://healthit.hhs.gov/tempcert/factsheet   
4) Temporary Certification Program Final Rule Frequently Asked Questions
http://healthit.hhs.gov/tempcert/faqs  
5) Permanent Certification Program
http://healthit.hhs.gov/permcert/factsheet
6) Certified Health IT Product List
http://healthit.hhs.gov/chpl
 Privacy and Security
1) Building Trust in Health Information Exchange
 http://healthit.hhs.gov/buildingtrust  
2) Health Information Privacy and Information on HIPAA
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/
For additional resources on certification and meaningful use check out ONC’s Meaningful Use resources:
http://healthit.hhs.gov/meaningfuluse/resources.
ONC has also funded 62 Regional Extension Centers, located across the country, to offer customized, on-the-ground assistance for providers who need help adopting and meaningfully using certified EHR technology.
You can also stay up to date on ONC and CMS activities by:

2 comments:

EMR and HIPAA said...

Great list. Although, I must admit that the length of this list illustrates to me the idea that there's no such thing as free money from the government. There's at least the cost of the red tape.

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