There is a little known but potential Stage 1 nightmare for EPs as they prepare for Meaningful Use attestation for the CMS EHR incentives. The attestation process as described in the CMS Attestation User Guide for EPs requires the inputting of numerators and denominators documenting the meaningful use of each percentage based measure. Where do [...]
Posted on May 26, 2011 by Jim Tate in HITECH Updates, Meaningful Use OK, so now we are starting to hear from many sources that Stage 2 MU will be delayed. Just a matter of time they say. So while we are waiting for that shoe to fall we might as well take a look [...]
Every webinar, conference call, FAQ site, or provider forum I attend these days seems to expose the confusion on what the EP has to meet to obtain the maximum amount of money and what they have to attest to prove they are meaningful users. These are not the same thing and one has nothing to [...]
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