As of the end of September, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has doled out approximately $16.5 billion in EHR incentive payments to 325,124 unique eligible professionals and hospitals, CMS Health Insurance Specialist Robert Anthony reported to the Health IT Policy Committee.

A Florida hospital chain incorrectly claimed $31 million in Meaningful Use incentive payments.

BOSTON—Risk aversion is entrenched in healthcare but opening up data could change that, according to Farzad Mostashari, MD, ScM, former national coordinator of health IT, speaking during the Digital Healthcare Innovation Summit.

Liaison Healthcare, a global provider of secure cloud-based integration and data management services and solutions, announced today a strategic partnership with PointClickCare®, the most widely used Electronic Health Record (EHR) platform for the long-term care industry, connecting their EHR platform to more than 120 labs and imaging departments already integrated within the Liaison EMR-Link(TM) hub, as well as others that provide specific services to the long term care community.  Liaison will also be an exhibitor at the PointClickCare Summit, November 3-6 in San Antonio.

Rural providers in Arkansas will have the opportunity to receive up to $10,000 in funding to connect their EHR systems to the state HIE, the State Health Alliance for Records Exchange, according to an announcement.

Meaningful Use Stage 3 is in the air, can you feel it? Even with so much focus (and debate) on Stage 2 in 2013, plans are continuing with Stage 3.

If recent headlines are any indication, health information exchange keeps moving the needle.

An interim final rule makes a change in a requirement of the 2014 Edition of EHRs that makes it easier for dentists and their software vendors to comply with Meaningful Use.