Posts Tagged ‘EHR’
EHR Companies Increasingly the Focus of DOJ Fraud Investigators
A Massachusetts-based electronic health records (EHR) company will pay more than $18 million to resolve allegations that it paid illegal kickbacks to generate sales through its marketing programs. It is the latest in a number of EHR companies under investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice. The complaint alleges that athenahealth Inc. (Athena), violated the…
Read MoreReport Focuses on Reducing EHR-Related Burdens on Providers
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently issued a report on ways to reduce regulatory and administrative burdens placed on providers and to help them better focus on patient care and less on paperwork, by better leveraging the use of electronic health records (EHRs). The final report “Strategy on Reducing Regulatory and Administrative…
Read MoreGroundbreaking Rules for Electronic Health Records Proposed
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing new rules that could pave the way for increased exchange of healthcare data by 2020. The rules, issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC), would allow patients to have access…
Read MoreOIG: CMS Overpaid Providers Millions in EHR Incentive Payments
The Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of Inspector General (OIG) recently released a report finding that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) overpaid some $729 million in Medicare electronic health record (EHR) incentive payments to eligible providers who did not comply with federal meaningful use requirements. In its report, the OIG…
Read MoreEHR disruptions: Do you have a Plan B?
We’ve all lived through them – power outages, computer malfunctions, etc. And, for the most part, they are minor inconveniences. But for healthcare institutions, disruptions such as these can mean the inability to access patient health records and that can literally mean the difference between life and death. Add in the recent incidences of cyberattacks…
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