The main goal of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which invested $30 billion into the EHR Meaningful Use (MU) incentive program, was improving quality of care. However, a recent study published in JAMA Internal Medicine found “no association” between EHR meaningful users and quality of care provided.

Thanks to EHR adoption, an increasing number of hospitals are shifting their IT priorities toward systems like the enterprise data warehouse, which mines the EHR for insights to improve care and lower cost.

EHR customer satisfaction across the primary care physician sector has improved by leaps and bounds compared to six years ago.

An e-prescribing public health initiative called Park Prescription (Park Rx) is promoting the belief that the path to better health can be found in the park system.

The Health IT Policy Committee this week gave some significant signs of things to come with a restructuring of work groups, endorsing best practices regarding Meaningful Use Stage 2 and launching a new accountable care work group.

Springfield, MO, April 09, 2014--TrustHCS and Greenway Health have solidified a partnership to assist users of the Greenway PrimeSUITE integrated electronic health record (EHR) and practice management solution with ICD-10 preparation and transition. ICD-10 preparation, education, documentation improvement and coding compliance services from TrustHCS are the main focus of the partnership.

A new Stage 2 Meaningful Use Attestation Calculator is available to help providers determine whether they will successfully meet Stage 2 requirements.

About 85 percent of Medicare early adopters have successfully attested to Meaningful Use for 2011, 2012 and 2013, reported Elisabeth Myers, policy and outreach lead at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Office of eHealth Standards and Services during the Health IT Policy Committee on April 8.