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2011: A Landmark Year for EMRs
“Ask the Expert” session with Michael R. Cohen. Mr. Cohen is a well-respected healthcare consultant who advises healthcare organizations on how to make good decisions and get more value from their information system investments. Read full bio.
2011 will go into history as a landmark year for EMRs/EHRs. Almost 36,000 Eligible Professionals (EPs) successfully attested that they have achieved the first stage of Meaningful Use (MU) - and received (or will soon receive) their first incentive payments from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). CMS published attestation data for the period ending February 3, 2012. It is available here.
Here's a look behind the EP numbers.
35,866 EPs have successfully attested to achieving Stage 1 MU under Medicare for 2011. Assuming there are 661,000 practicing physicians (per Bureau of Labor Statistics in 2008), then roughly 5.4% of EPs are now meaningful users of EHR under the ...
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Final Rule Series 3: Ease of Achieving Meaningful Use Menu Measures [Download]
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