Wirehead Mobility Blog: Featured Report:Over half of docs have received EHR incentive payments

This Week's Healthcare News

Mobile technology could save billions of dollars on healthcare costs

Med City News
May,20,2013
by:Rebecca Grant,
Mobile health technology provides patients with greater opportunities to manage their diseases and communicate with providers. On stage today at HealthBeat 2013, Dr. Ivor Horn of the National Children's Medical Center and Asthmapolis president Mark Gehring spoke about the potential for 'mHealth' to reach underserved populations and help them take control over their health.
Read More

$400,000 Penalty in HIPAA Case

Healthcare Info Security
May,22,2013
Howard Anderson

Federal regulators have demonstrated yet again that an investigation of a relatively small breach incident can result in a substantial penalty for HIPAA non-compliance. Idaho State University has agreed to pay $400,000 as part of a resolution agreement stemming from an incident it reported in August 2011 that potentially could have exposed information on 17,500 patients at the university's Pocatello Family Medicine Clinic. Patient information was vulnerable for at least 10 months because a firewall protecting a server was disabled, according to the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights.

Read Report

Featured Report:Over half of docs have received EHR incentive payments

Over half of docs have received EHR incentive payments

Modern Healthcare
May,22,2013
by:Joseph Conn

Key federal programs to boost electronic health-record system use passed a milestone last month as more than half of physicians and other "eligible professionals" have received incentive payments for attesting to the adoption of a certified EHR system.
As of April, 191,305 physicians and EPs have received EHR incentive payments from Medicare, while 88,903 have received payments from Medicaid and 11,117 from Medicare Advantage under programs created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
Read More

Wirehead Technology Healthcare Services

EHR Incentive Program

Healthcare Professionals Did You Know? Non-hospital-based physicians and other eligible professionals can obtain incentive payments of as much as $44,000 under Medicare or $63,750 under Medicaid. Under both Medicare and Medicaid, eligible hospitals may receive millions of dollars for implementing and meaningfully using certified EHR technology.

About two-thirds (65 percent) of hospitals and 32 percent of office-based physicians plan to enroll in meaningful use programs by the end of 2012 in order to receive the maximum incentives, according to survey results announced Thursday morning. Fewer federal dollars will be available to hospitals and doctors that wait to adopt EHR technology, and failure to meaningfully use EHRs starting in 2015 will result in Medicare penalties. Watch this video about how to register for the EHR Incentive program.

EHR Incentive Program Registration

Do you need help with HIPAA and HITECH? Then download and Read our HIPAA Guide for for Doctors and Small Clinics that contains HIPAA security regulations and check lists that you can use to start your EMR network.