http://www.americanehr.com/blog The Official Blog of America's Clinician-Powered Health IT Community Tue, 21 Feb 2012 06:01:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/almost-800m-to-eligible-professionals-for-ehr-incentive-program/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/almost-800m-to-eligible-professionals-for-ehr-incentive-program/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:47:22 +0000 Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3148 The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released the January payment update to the EHR Incentive Program through January 2012. Here are some data from the EHR Incentive Payment Summary for January 2012. Medicare Data 22,937 Eligible Professionals (EP) received incentive payments $412,866,000 distributed Average per EP = $18,000 Top 4 Specialties: Family Medicine –...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/almost-800m-to-eligible-professionals-for-ehr-incentive-program/feed/ 0 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-use-data-and-graphs-to-motivate-your-patients/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-use-data-and-graphs-to-motivate-your-patients/#comments Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:25:26 +0000 Alan Brookstone, MD http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3102 Due to the interactive and real-time nature of an EHR, clinicians have a number of powerful tools at their fingertips that can be used to provide clinical guidance to patients and encourage healthy changes in behavior. With the advent of patient portals, personal health records, and mobile apps, there are now a number of additional...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/how-to-use-data-and-graphs-to-motivate-your-patients/feed/ 0 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/delay-of-icd-10-in-the-works/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/delay-of-icd-10-in-the-works/#comments Wed, 15 Feb 2012 13:51:29 +0000 Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3105 Several news items surfaced yesterday (February 14, 2012) referencing comments made by acting CMS Administrator Marilyn Tavenner during the American Medical Association’s National Advocacy Conference. HealthIT News covered it here; Modern Healthcare here; and iHealthBeat here. Most of the commentary has been that CMS can only delay the implementation and that it is extremely unlikely...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/delay-of-icd-10-in-the-works/feed/ 0 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/electronic-health-records-and-the-medical-home/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/electronic-health-records-and-the-medical-home/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:59:38 +0000 David W. Bates, MD, MSc http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3080 Guest Editorial David W. Bates, MD, MSC is the Chief Quality Officer, and Chief, Division of General Internal Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA. The Medical Home is one of the most exciting developments in care redesign in some time. Although the concept was initially developed many years ago in pediatrics, it is just...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/electronic-health-records-and-the-medical-home/feed/ 1 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/new-ehr-incentive-program-appeals-process/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/new-ehr-incentive-program-appeals-process/#comments Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:18:13 +0000 Michael S. Barr, MD, MBA, FACP http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3041 Beginning on March 1, 2012, CMS will open an Appeals Portal for Eligible Professionals participating in the EHR Incentive program. (The portal for Eligible Hospitals is slated to be up by June 1, 2012.) Until such time as the Appeals Portal is up, the guidance available is here. According to this document, the types of...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/new-ehr-incentive-program-appeals-process/feed/ 0 http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/ehrs-and-imaging-studies-text-or-image-question/ http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/ehrs-and-imaging-studies-text-or-image-question/#comments Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:57:08 +0000 William S. Underwood MPH http://www.americanehr.com/blog/?p=3009 As practices move towards the integration of more information in their EHR systems, a question that frequently comes up is how much information should be incorporated from imaging and radiology studies. This information is usually available in three primary formats: A narrative report received either as a faxed document or scanned into a commonly used...]]> http://www.americanehr.com/blog/2012/02/ehrs-and-imaging-studies-text-or-image-question/feed/ 1