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The Economic Stimulus legislation has presented an incredible opportunity for EMR vendors. Unfortunately, it seems that some of them are taking advantage of it by giving out misleading information and applying scare tactics so that practices will purchase their EMRs. [...]

The vice-chair of the HIT Standards Committee, John Halamka, MD, opened the first Standards Committee meeting by charging the committee with “recommending standards, implementation specifications, and certification…in support of meaningful use.” But “meaningful use” has not yet been defined, which [...]

This weekend, The Washington Post published an investigative report entitled “The Machinery Behind Health-Care Reform: How an Industry Lobby Scored a Swift, Unexpected Victory by Channeling Billions to Electronic Records.” The reporter, Robert O’Harrow Jr., clearly hit a nerve when [...]

The 21 members of the HIT Standards Committee have been appointed, and unfortunately I was not among those selected. However, HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and National Coordinator for Health Information Technology David Blumenthal did assemble a highly credentialed, very impressive [...]

On Day 2 of the Government’s Hearing on Meaningful Use, there was finally some recognition of the need for physicians to be able and actually willing to use their EMRs. Three speakers from the audience, including SRS, presented testimony reminding [...]

Two SRS representatives are currently in Washington, D.C., attending the Hearing on “Meaningful Use” of Health Information Technology. They are listening to (and will provide) testimony to the government on what should constitute “meaningful use” of an EHR that would [...]

A frequent topic of conversation is how to improve the claims-coding process. If you are intrigued by the automated E&M coding offered by an EMR, I suggest caution. This feature has high marketing appeal—promising that office visits will be coded [...]